On November 27, the main center Zhou Qi left the court injured in the World Cup qualifier match against Japan, and the second match was watched from the sidelines, causing him to be injured by the Chinese Japanese player Zhang Bentianjie.
There is no remorse for injuring the hands of the two countries
Zhang Bentianjie, formerly known as Zhang Tianjie, comes from a sports family in Liaoning Province, his father is a basketball player, his mother is a volleyball player, his grandfather was the head coach of the Fencing Team in Liaoning Province, and his uncle is a badminton player. In 2003, when Zhang Tianjie was in the sixth grade of elementary school, he accompanied his father Zhang Jian to Japan to reunite with his mother Qiang Shuping, and became a Japanese citizen during high school, changing his original name to Zhang Ben Tianjie.
Subsequently, Zhang Bentianjie represented Japan at the Asian Youth Championships in 2008, becoming the first original Chinese player to be naturalized by the Japanese national brand. He has since become a regular for the Japanese national team and has repeatedly had a bad reputation among Chinese fans for controversial remarks. For example, during the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, some media reported that his biggest dream was to "represent Japan to defeat China", and for example, some media reported that he once explained that the reason for the transfer was that "Chinese basketball is too dark".
These statements have become difficult to verify because of the passage of time. However, in the two games on the 27th and 28th, Zhang Bentianjie, who was wearing the No. 88 jersey, first hooked Zhou Qi with his foot under the basket, causing his ankle to sprain, and then after being broken by Zhao Rui the next day, he threw the opponent to the ground on his stomach, who injured his wrist.
After the game, he acted indifferent in an interview: "First of all, I stated that I didn't mean it, I just wanted to be actively defensive and not let him play a fast attack, but at that time he collided with too much inertia, so he fell not lightly." I didn't mean to hurt anyone on purpose, I just wanted to play well. Everyone who knows me knows I'm not that kind of person. ”
The transfer of Japanese athletes has often caused controversy
Looking at the Chinese sports world, other well-known Japanese athletes include: Zhang Benzhihe of table tennis, miyuki Sugiyama, and Lihua Uzuki... And, of course, there's the one who will never be forgotten.
The history and reasons for these athletes' transfers vary widely. Although Zhang Benzhi and his parents were former table tennis players in the Sichuan team, he himself was born in Japan, which basically has little to do with the Chinese table tennis scene, and can be regarded as a relatively pure "Nissan".
Miyuki Sugiyama of the women's basketball team has been training in China and won the bronze medal in the World Youth Championship for the Chinese team, but suddenly changed to Japan without informing the Chinese Basketball Association. Li Xin, the head coach of the women's basketball team at the time, angrily denounced him on Weibo as "the scum of Chinese basketball".
Uzu Kiriwa (middle)
As for Uzu Mu Lihua, her Chinese name is Ren Yanli, the captain of the Chinese women's base in the 1980s and 1990s, she joined the Japanese nationality in 1995, then entered the Japanese women's base, and also served as the coach of the Japanese national team after retiring. Compared with the others, her career has basically been playing for the Chinese team, and when she left, she was close to retirement in her thirties, and the controversy was relatively small.
When it comes to controversy, of course, I can't avoid the initiator of this topic, Tomori Koyama. Today, the number of Chinese athletes who have transferred to other countries is uncountable, and only the transfer to Japan seems to be so sensitive, the reason is that in addition to historical entanglements, Tomoi Oyama's behavior of shouting "Yosai" every time she wins at the Hiroshima Asian Games is to be among the best.
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Guo Xiaoming
Photo: Xinhua News Agency