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

And it's the first race of this World Championship!

What does it feel like to have red flags flying all over the city?

The people of Saitama Prefecture feel it now!

Unlike domestic laws, ordinary Japanese people can fly the flags of other countries, of course, there are also other things that violate the law, and there will be some problems for Japanese people to hang the Chinese flag themselves, such as the actions of the company that goes to work, etc......

But Chinese tourists are concentrating on Saitama Prefecture to turn Saitama Prefecture into a Chinese town!

Starting from August 10th, because of the relationship between the World Championships, Chinese tourists who bought tickets for the World Championships, round-trip air tickets, and booked hotels can get a more convenient temporary visa, and the time limit is from August 10th to September 9th, Japan's economy is sluggish, so the Football World Cup and the Basketball World Championship will also be held, just to promote tourism.

Then something beyond the expectations of the Japanese side came, hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists came to Japan, and they were naturally crazy with joy when there were so many tourists in normal times.

In 2005, the total number of Chinese tourists to Japan reached 6.73 million, and more than one million Chinese visited Japan at one time or another.

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

But this time, they couldn't be happier!

Some Chinese tourists, the Chinese team has bought tickets for five games, because each country plays at least five games, and five venues will go to one trip, so they have started to sell tickets for countries very early, in order to improve attendance, the four popular countries are separated in four groups, which is also one, to maximize ticket sales as much as possible.

There are a small number of fans, is to buy the Chinese team group stage all the game tickets, most of them are to buy their own want to go to the Japanese attractions closer to the location of the city with the World Championship venues, they come to Japan is not only to watch the Chinese team game, tourism is also an important purpose, just during the summer vacation, come to Japan is not all fans, fans only account for a small part, the largest Saitama Super Arena, is only 50,000 seats, usually used to play rugby and baseball, most people just came to join in the fun, and did not buy tickets.

And then...... The five host cities have all become Chinatown, each city has more than 100,000 Chinese, and here in Saitama Prefecture, because of the opening match of the World Championships, the Chinese team and the Japanese team played a match...... Most of the tourists from other cities flock here...... And then...... I can't live in hotels and B&Bs......

Now the tourists who have bought tickets and obtained temporary visas, and the Chinese tourists who already hold Japanese visas, are in the same posture as they want to occupy Japan, which has put a lot of pressure on the transportation and accommodation in Saitama Prefecture, and the Japanese government can only send more people to clear the situation......

The gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the Japanese team is too big, and all Chinese fans want to see the Chinese team abuse little Japan, even if they are not fans, they want to experience this matter up close.

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Since the afternoon of August 18th, Liu Mang began to hear the sound of singing the national anthem collectively, and some fans ran to sing the national anthem outside the hotel where they stayed in the middle of the night...... I can only call the police......

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

Liu Mang feels that domestic fans still don't know what "home advantage" is, Saitama County is "occupied", and he goes to the hotel where the Japanese team stays!

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

It's a great feeling!

With the expectations of the people of the whole country, the fighting spirit in their hearts has skyrocketed!

Unlike the unreasonable and excessive expectations that they accepted before, which made the members of the national team feel pressure, this time the expectations of the Chinese people made them more motivated!

In the final analysis, it's because of strength!

On the afternoon of August 19th, the Chinese team participated in the opening ceremony of the World Championships and watched the performance.

Is it to be toyed with, or is it to be toyed with?

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

And you can't be careless, know yourself and know your opponent, and you won't be defeated in a hundred battles! The Chinese team got the list of players from all the participating countries in this year's competition, and Liu Mang and others got a list of the Japanese team.

I took a look at their profiles......

Liu Mang felt ...... It's not that he doesn't want to pay attention to it......

Satoru Furuta, the center of the Japanese team, is 45 years old, 1.99 meters tall and weighs 91 kilograms.

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

The best player on the Japanese team is Yuta Tawo, who played in the preseason for the Suns in 2004, a 1.75 meter point guard......

followed by the well-known Takeuchi brothers in Asia on the front line, Takeuchi Ryoji and Takeuchi Kosuke, who are two meters and five meters tall.

Except for Yuta Tian and the Takeuchi brothers because of their good performance in the Asian Cup last year, Liu Mang heard Yi Jianlian say that they 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 one thing." Liu Mang said it in English, afraid that the silver fox would not understand.

"What's the matter? Ace, don't you want to play tomorrow? It doesn't matter, you and Da Yao can both rest. "The silver fox is so direct......

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

Yao Ming and Silver Fox's eyes widened, and they looked at the list of the Japanese team together, it's not impossible......

Yao Ming's reaction was fun!

"Ace, I've got your back!" Yao Ming expressed his opinion decisively.

And the silver fox was a little scared, how much hatred does this have for the Japanese team?

If Liu Mang knew the silver fox's thoughts, he would say: This hatred is endless, this is a national hatred!

But Yao Ming also agreed, and Silver Fox hurriedly found the team leader, who is also the former head coach of the Chinese men's national basketball team, Coach Zhang, and asked what to do about it.

Director Zhang's eyes lit up: "Just do what Ace said!" ”

"......" Silver Fox didn't expect it, Liu Mang's character is very well known to Americans, but Yao Ming and Director Zhang are both stable people, why did they suddenly become unstable when they came to play the Japanese team?

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

This World Championship has a total of 12 days, from the 20th to the 24th, there are five games a day, divided into three periods, in five cities, and some games are played at the same time.

But in the game at three o'clock in the afternoon on the 20th, only the Chinese team played the Japanese team.

On the day of the game, when the starting list of the Chinese team was announced, those who followed the game were scared.

Liu Mang, the position behind it reads...... Center!