On July 19, 2007, the match between the Chinese team and Spain will be held today.

We all know that Spanish football is great, in fact, Spanish basketball is not bad.

Four or five players on Spain's senior squad play for NBA teams. Among them, the star Pau Gasol is also an All-Star player in the NBA. Spain's senior players are strong, and the young players are also very likely to come from behind. The most famous of these is their national treasure rookie Ricky Rubio.

At the age of 16, Rubio became famous in the U16 European Championship finals with 51 points, 24 rebounds, 12 assists and 7 steals, and the "Golden Boy" has since become famous all over Europe.

It is worth mentioning that the European golden boy Rubio and Zhang Yu, who just broke the record for the highest score in a single game of the World Youth Championships, were both born in 1990, the two are the same age, and Rubio is 8 months younger than Zhang Yu.

One is known as the golden boy of Europe, the other is known as the genius of Asia, and the duel of the best golden boys from two different continents is very interesting, and this match has received great attention. Especially in Spain and China, this battle has been hyped into a showdown between the Asian golden boy and the European golden boy. In Asia, in recent years, under the leadership of NBA star Yao Ming, the Chinese men's basketball team has become the No. 1 team in Asia. Zhang Yu broke the record of the event with the table of the first two games, and scored 50 points against the United States team on the court, and it is not an exaggeration to call him the Asian golden boy at this moment.

Several NBA mock draft websites in the United States, after the game between the Chinese team and the United States, have raised Zhang Yu's 09 mock draft order to the top ten. If Zhang Yu announced that he would participate in the draft in 08, then major draft websites even predicted that Zhang Yu had a chance to be selected in the top three. (Non-U.S. players can participate in the draft as long as they are at least 18 years old.) ）

In China, given Zhang Yu's outstanding performance, CCTV's management was unusually efficient and quickly informed the decision to strengthen coverage of the World Junior Championships, which will be broadcast live on every match in the future.

The Spanish team, apart from their golden boy Rubio, is also not to be underestimated. For example, their power forward, Serge Ibaka (Serge Ibaka was a Spanish citizen who later joined, the novel needs to be two years earlier), is amazingly athletic, tall and long-armed, excellent defensively, and has a lot of coverage. Another small forward, Victor Clough, also has a very good body and reach, good shooting ability, intelligence and dexterity, speed is not slow, and has a high ball quotient.

In terms of the team's hardware strength, the outside world generally believes that Spain is superior, but basketball has never been a team that is stronger on the books and will definitely win in the end.

The time quickly came to the day of the game, and with an hour before the start of the game, the players of both teams began to acclimatize to the court and practice shooting.

Compared with the previous two games in China, there were more Chinese reporters on the sidelines today, and most of them focused on Zhang Yu.

Fans arrived one after another, and a poster with the caricatures of Zhang Yu and Rubio was held high by a beautiful Asian girl, attracting the attention of many people.

The TV broadcast was aimed at this poster at the right time, and the Spanish fans almost vomited blood when they saw it, in addition to Zhang Yu on the poster, there was also a cartoon image of Rubio that was obviously Rubio, but their golden boy had an unpleasant life on the poster, only to see Zhang Yu's cartoon image press it to the ground, and the punching bag punch hit Rubio's face, Rubio's nose was blue and his face was swollen, and one of his teeth was knocked out

Such a cartoon, no matter how funny it is, Spanish fans can't laugh.

In the Spanish half, Rubio was passing the ball to his teammates and shooting three-pointers, but he didn't shoot much himself. Rubio's passing, defense, and rebounding are all good, and only his shooting ability is often criticized, which is his only shortcoming. Fortunately, Rubio is still young, and the media and experts believe that his shooting ability can be developed sooner or later.

Half an hour of warm-up is fast over, the game is about to start, there are only the players left on the field, and the most watched game of the day is about to begin.

The game was scheduled for 2 p.m. local time, on the other side, the equally high-profile match between the United States and France had ended, and the United States team relied on a better second team to defeat the French team with a score of 102-96, and the two teams did not decide the winner until the last few minutes.

In this World Youth Championships, the French team also has many outstanding players, such as the 213cm tall center Alec Akinsa. Small forward Nicolas Batum, who is 203cm tall. and 206cm tall power forward Kevin Seraphim. They are all young players who are being highlighted by NBA teams. The U.S. team faced the French team, and although they won, it was not easy to win, and the French team fought until the last moment.

With the substitutes dropping out, China's match against Spain begins as soon as it kicks off in the second leg of the group stage, and neither team will miss the chance to get off to a flying start.

Jumping ball, the Chinese team undoubtedly lost, Ibaka's bounce power and speed are very outstanding, in the face of Su Wei, effortlessly dialed the basketball, and the basketball flew in the direction of Spanish player Vidocq.

Everyone thought Spain would get their first chance to attack, but one hand came out of the air, grabbed the basketball before Victor, and then flicked the ball towards the Spanish half.

The Spanish players saw Ibaka rush to the basketball first, raised their legs and went to the backcourt of the Chinese team.

Rubio, as a point guard, is the only Spanish player who is still in his own half at the moment because of the last position, although everyone wants to see the duel between the two, but no one expected that it would be so fast, and the two will face off on the first offensive in the opening game.

Rubio is 190cm tall and weighs 170 pounds. Facing Zhang Yu, who is 197cm tall and weighs 180 pounds, he is physically in a slight position.

Rubio's ball quotient is very high, and in the face of Zhang Yu, he did not reach out to break the ball, and once the ball failed, he could only watch the opponent go to the empty basket. He chose to follow Zhang Yu, affecting his ball control, slowing down his speed and waiting for his teammates to return to the defense.

Zhang Yu's ability to hold the ball has been shown in the first three games. Rubio's harassment had extremely limited impact on him. Facing Rubio, who was not as good as him, Zhang Yu directly used his body to push the other party away.

Rubio was leaned by Zhang Yu's body, and he lost his center of gravity at once, and his speed was also greatly reduced. Rubio knew very well that he couldn't stop the opponent, but letting the opponent break the ball and dunk at the beginning hurt his morale too much, so he made a quick decision, reached out and grabbed Zhang Yu's jersey, preferring to use a foul to block the opponent.

Zhang Yu's jersey was grabbed by Rubio, and he didn't have to get rid of the opponent, he paid great attention to the protection of his body, threw the basketball to the basket, and pretended to be pulled by Rubio's jersey and fell to the floor.

The referee naturally would not let go of such an obvious foul by Rubio, even if Zhang Yu's action of falling to the ground was slightly exaggerated, this foul could not run, and Zhang Yu walked to the free throw line on the first offense in the opening game.

In both free throws, the Chinese team took the lead with Zhang Yu taking the lead, and his free throws basically remained above 85%.

Rubio was skilful on the ball and quick. The starting point guard of the Chinese team in this game is still Yang Qin, who is an overage player, but the Chinese team has never lacked players who have changed their age to participate in the game. Against Rubio, even if Yang Qin is actually much older than the other party, there is still no way. In fact, after these few games, he doesn't seem to have a way to do any of them, and Chinese fans have seen a lot, so they don't think it's strange.