On August 20th, the first match day of the World Championships, the Chinese team will play Japan for the first time!

And it’s the first game of this World Championships!

What does it feel like when red flags fly all over the city?

People in Saitama Prefecture are feeling it now!

Different from domestic laws, ordinary people in Japan can fly the flags of other countries. Of course, it may be illegal for other reasons. Japanese people flying the Chinese flag themselves will also have some problems, such as the company where they work will take action, etc...

But Chinese tourists are concentrated in Saitama Prefecture, and they want to turn Saitama Prefecture into China Town!

Starting from August 10th, because of this World Championships, Chinese tourists who have bought World Championships game tickets, round-trip air tickets, and booked hotels can get a simpler temporary visa. The validity period is from August 10th to 9th.

On September 9th, Japan's economy is in recession, so the Football World Cup and the Basketball World Championship will be held, just to promote tourism.

Then something happened that exceeded Japan's expectations. Hundreds of thousands and nearly a million Chinese tourists came to Japan. They usually went crazy with joy when there were so many tourists.

In 2005, the total number of Chinese tourists to Japan reached 6.73 million, and more than one million Chinese visited Japan once or multiple times.

For this World Championships in Japan, the number of people who came here in a month, or even in just a few days, is almost close to the total number of Chinese tourists last year!

But this time, they were not happy!

Some Chinese tourists bought tickets for the Chinese team’s five games. Because every country plays at least five games and will go to all five venues, they started selling country-specific tickets very early.

To increase attendance, one of the reasons why the four most popular countries are divided into four groups is to maximize ticket sales as much as possible.

A small number of fans bought tickets for all the matches of the Chinese team in the group stage. Most of them bought tickets for the Japanese attractions they wanted to visit, which are closer to the cities with World Championship venues. They came to Japan.

It’s not just about watching Chinese team games, traveling is also an important purpose. It happens to be during the summer vacation, and not all people who come to Japan are fans. Fans only account for a small part. The largest Saitama Super Arena has only 50,000 seats. It is usually used.

Most of the people who came to play rugby and baseball just came to join in the fun and did not buy tickets.

Then... the five host cities all became Chinatowns, with hundreds of thousands of Chinese in each city. Because of the opening game of the World Championships in Saitama Prefecture, the Chinese team played against the Japanese team... Tourists from other cities,

Most of them gathered here... and then... hotels and B&Bs were no longer available...

Nowadays, tourists who have bought game tickets and obtained temporary visas, and Chinese tourists who originally held Japanese visas, are trying to occupy Japan. This has put great pressure on transportation and accommodation in Saitama Prefecture. The Japanese government can only increase

Send manpower to clear the way...

The strength gap between the Chinese team and the Japanese team is too big. All Chinese fans want to see the Chinese team beating Japan. Even if they are not fans, they want to experience it up close.

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From the afternoon of August 18, Liu Mang often heard the sound of collective singing of the national anthem. Some fans went outside their hotels to sing the national anthem in the middle of the night. Liu Mang and others were very moved, and then asked the national team staff to

Go to seek guidance, but if you don’t listen, you still have to deal with it... I can only call the police...

It's not that Liu Mang and others are unkind, but they didn't expect that the enthusiasm of their country's fans would actually affect the rest of their participating players.

Liu Mang feels that domestic fans still don't quite understand what "home field advantage" is. Saitama Prefecture has been "occupied" and they have to go to the hotel where the Japanese team is staying!

But...after waking up, Liu Mang and his teammates were very excited.

This feels great!

With the expectations of the people across the country, their fighting spirit skyrocketed!

Unlike the previous unreasonable and high expectations that made members of the national team feel stressed, this time the expectations of the Chinese people have made them more motivated to fight!

In the final analysis, it is still because of strength!

On the afternoon of August 19th, the Chinese team participated in the opening ceremony of the World Championships. After watching the performance, the Chinese team players were not thinking about this at all. After the players from each country were introduced during the appearance ceremony, the Chinese team was discussing what to do.

deal with Japan.

Do you want to play around, or do you want to play around?

In the end, it was unanimously decided to go to death!

And you can’t be careless, know yourself and your enemy, and you can win every battle! The Chinese team got the list of players from all participating countries this time, and Liu Mang and others got a list of the Japanese team.

After looking at their information...

Liu Mang felt...it wasn't that he didn't want to take it seriously...

Japanese team center Satoru Furuta is 35 years old, 1.99 meters tall and weighs 91 kilograms.

Liu Mang himself is 1.93 meters tall, and his latest physical weight is 92 kilograms...

The best player of the Japanese team is Yuta Tabashi who played in the preseason for the Suns in 2004. He is a 1.75 meter point guard...

Followed by the Takeuchi brothers, Takeuchi Joji and Takeuchi Kosuke, who are quite famous in Asia on the forward line, are 2.05 meters tall.

Except for Yuta Taguchi and the Takeuchi brothers who performed well in last year's Asian Cup, Liu Mang heard Yi Jianlian say that he didn't know anyone else.

Liu Mang suddenly had an idea and called Yao Ming and head coach Silver Fox Harris aside.

"Coach, BIG-Yao, let's discuss something." Liu Mang said in English, fearing that Silver Fox wouldn't understand.

"What's the matter? Ace, don't you want to play tomorrow? It doesn't matter. You and Dayao can both rest." Silver Fox was so direct...

"No, we all have to fight, we must fight. You don't understand our country, but coach, I want this..." Liu Mang asked Yao Ming and Yin Hu to bring their heads closer and said what he wanted to do.

Yao Ming and Yin Hu's eyes widened, and they looked at the Japanese team list together. It was not impossible...

Yao Ming's reaction was that it was fun!

"Ace, I support you!" Yao Ming expressed his opinion decisively.

Silver Fox was a little scared. How much hatred did he have for the Japanese team?

If Liu Mang knew what Yinhu was thinking, he would say: This hatred lasts forever, this is the hatred of the country!

But Yao Ming also agreed, and Silver Fox quickly went to the team leader, Director Zhang, who is also the former head coach of the Chinese Men's Basketball National Team, and asked what to do about this matter.

Director Zhang’s eyes lit up: “Just do what Ace says!”

"..." Silver Fox didn't expect that Liu Mang's out-of-the-box character is well understood by Americans, but Yao Ming and Director Zhang are both stable people. How come they suddenly lost their stability when they played against the Japanese team?

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On August 20, 2006, the opening game of the World Championships is coming!

This World Championship lasts for 12 days in total, from the 20th to the 24th. There are five games every day, divided into three periods, and are held in five cities. Some games will be played at the same time.

But in the game at 3pm on the 20th, only the Chinese team will play the Japanese team.

On the day of the game, when the roster of the Chinese team was announced, everyone who followed the game was shocked.
Chapter completed!