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It is nothing new for Chinese athletes to change their nationality to win glory for other countries.
In addition to "patriotic feelings", they can always find strange "reasons", such as "in China, I will never have a chance", or "China needs connections to play, and other countries are fair".
Although looking at the Asian faces on the field and winning glory for other countries, there are still some "entanglements" in my heart.
However, after seeing Zhang Bentianjie, who has Oscar-like acting skills, I felt that we were right!
Northeast guy "Zhang Tianjie"
Zhang Bentianjie, formerly known as Zhang Tianjie, was born in 1992 in a sports family in Shenyang, Liaoning Province.
His father, Zhang Benjian, was a former provincial basketball player in Liaoning Province, although he had to end his basketball career because of a "comminuted fracture" of the joint caused by a game.
His mother, Qiang Shuping, was a volleyball player when she was young, and after gradually retiring as she grew older, she went to Japan to develop, and then opened a "restaurant" in Japan and settled in Japan, and even her grandfather was a coach of the fencing team.
As a "Northeast man" in Shenyang, China, Zhang Bentianjie also embarked on the road of sports early under the leadership of his family.
With excellent genes, Zhang Bentianjie quickly found the sport he loved, that is, "basketball", and it was with this hobby that Zhang Bentianjie grew up early, the iconic one meter eight tall guys in the Northeast.
And as he grows older, when he is an adult, Zhang Bentianjie's height has reached nearly two meters, and his height of 1.98 meters makes him more "handy" in playing basketball.
That is, as Zhang Bentianjie's longing for his mother became more and more intense, his father decided to take Zhang Bentianjie, who had just entered the sixth grade of primary school, to Japan to get together with his mother, but he didn't expect that this trip would change his son's life.
Chasing your "basketball dream"
After Zhang Bentianjie in Japan, he did not give up his hobby because of the change of environment, except for the time of class on weekdays, Zhang Bentianjie's favorite favorite is to play, sometimes he and his classmates learn football skills, and sometimes he will practice sweating alone.
As this love was discovered by more people, he gradually began to contribute to the school's basketball, representing the school to play games, Zhang Bentianjie always won a lot of honors for the school because of his outstanding performance.
But Zhang Bentianjie did not slack off at all, because he had a goal in his heart, and this goal was also set very early, that is, to go to a bigger arena and earn more honors.
On weekdays, Zhang Bentianjie not only focuses on learning, but even puts his focus on basketball, so to speak, his life revolves around classes and basketball.
In addition to studying well, Zhang Bentianjie's reputation for playing basketball has also begun to "increase day by day", even to the extent that even the local government knows about it.
But although Japanese teachers would remind Zhang Bentianjie's parents of some things, they still avoided the topic from the bottom of their hearts, because after all, they still had Chinese blood in their bodies.
But as Zhang Bentianjie grew older and developed, when facing the "lobbying" of these people again, his parents seemed to have softened.
Parents completely change their minds
At that time, although Zhang Bentianjie had become one of the best basketball "leaders" in Japan, he could not play or participate in youth basketball games because of nationality issues.
When he was young, he could only be under the court, watching his friends who practiced with him on weekdays playing on the field, he was really "powerful and nowhere to go", which was also seen by Zhang Bentianjie's parents.
However, this was not "the last straw that broke the camel's back", and it was not until a competition in high school that he completely changed the idea of nationality for Zhang Ben's family.
In high school, Zhang Bentianjie represented the school to participate in a "basketball game" with no chance of winning, and everyone thought that even if there was a dark horse like Zhang Bentianjie, it still could not turn defeat into victory.
It can be seen that in this basketball game, Zhang Bentianjie's teammates are so good that the school teachers have no expectations.
But Zhang Bentianjie's body is like a kind of stubbornness of "Chinese", the kind that a few cows can't pull back, isn't it that this school has lost for eight consecutive years? He just doesn't admit defeat and is not convinced.
I saw the basketball dancing in his hands, like a work of art, every movement was just right, all showing his superb skills, and the teachers and Zhang Bentianjie's parents under the court all applauded.
With a whistle, the results of the game began to be announced, Zhang Bentianjie led the school team to successfully win the game, and he personally won more than 40 points for the team in one fell swoop.
It is precisely because of this competition that Zhang Bentianjie's father, Zhang Jian, completely changed his mind, and in order for his children to have a better development prospect, his father directly decided the matter.
With the decision of this matter, Zhang Bentianjie has indeed been given more room for development, not only to participate in youth competitions, but even to play for the country of Japan.
Behavior gradually "daily chemical"
Zhang Bentianjie's "basketball dream" is developing like a day, from the Japanese Youth League to Aoyama University in Japan to the Japanese national team, it is like stepping on a rocket, and it is developing extremely fast.
But as he was able to represent Japan and win honor for Japan, he also faced a lot of doubts.
It was at the scene of the 2021 Asian Cup qualifiers that Zhang Bentianjie, who represented Japan, did not hesitate to use fake falls and fouls to win the game for Japan.
After knowing that he was originally Chinese, everyone scoffed at his "daily" behavior, which really threw all the faces of Chinese people and was scolded by everyone on the hot search.
epilogue
Everyone can have the right to choose independently, but the most important thing to be a man is not to forget his roots, Zhang Bentianjie not only concealed the specific reason for joining the Japanese nationality from the media, but even smeared China, which is worthy of being spurned by tens of thousands of people.
Information sources:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Zhang Bentianjie (personal experience, main works)
Tencent.com: Japanese-Chinese Players: Winning the Chinese Men's Basketball Team Proves I Was Right to Choose Japan [Citation Date:2014-09-28]
Netease Sports: This announced the Asian Cup training list Chinese teenager Zhang Bentianjie was selected2014-6-17 [Citation date: 2016-09-1]