Recently, the Japan Table Tennis Association announced the list of participants and coaches of the WTT regional competition, and the previous news about Zhang Benzhihe was finally officially confirmed, that is, at present, Zhang Ben's family has all joined the Japanese nationality, and the last to join the Japanese is Zhang Ben's mother Zhang Ling, whose name has been changed to Zhang Benling.
Speaking of Zhang Ling, she was also a well-known national table tennis player, participated in the World Table Tennis Championships, and also teamed up with Qiao Hong, Deng Yaping and other people. However, due to unstable performance, he quickly lost his main position and retired from the national team at the age of 23.
Zhang Ling's husband, Zhang Benyu, is also a table tennis player, once a member of the Sichuan provincial team, and the two went to Japan to become coaches after marriage, and gave birth to Zhang Benzhihe and Zhang Benmei and two brothers and sisters. Later, Zhang Benzhihe and his father Zhang Benyu and his sister Zhang Benmeihe became Japanese nationals, which made the Zhang Family controversial.
In an interview in 2018, Zhang Ling cried that the decision to join Japanese nationality was proposed by her 11-year-old son Zhang Ben, in order to be more valued by Japanese table tennis, but she herself still retains Chinese nationality because she still misses the motherland.
However, now 4 years later, Zhang Ling's ideas have also changed, for the sake of her family and future, she also compromised to join the Japanese nationality, as Zhang Benmei and strength are getting stronger, some people bluntly say that Zhang Ben's family will become a fierce enemy of national table tennis in the future. So why do you think Zhang Ling changed her mind to become a Japanese citizen? What do you think about Zhang Benzhi and his family's japanese citizenship?