Liverpool host's wonderful trip in basketball city 利物浦小哥“篮球莞”奇遇记

How great is Dongguan Women's Basketball team? Four Dongguan-trained players, Yang Liwei, Huang Sijing, Dilana and Li Yueru, show their strength at the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup final on October 1.

东莞女篮有多牛？杨力维、黄思静、迪拉娜、李月汝4名东莞培养的球员，前天在2022年女篮世界杯决赛中给出了答案。

■Photo by People's Daily （图片来源：人民日报 ）

In recent days, a short video of a foreign blogger competing against little girls of a Dongguan primary school basketball team went viral on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other overseas social media platforms, as well as on mestic platforms involveing Douyin, Bilibili and Tencent, showing the unique and infinite charm of Dongguan basketball.

这两天，一段外国小哥PK东莞小学女篮的视频在脸书、推特、YouTube等海外社交平台走红，在抖音、B站、腾讯等平台也引起围观，东莞的篮球魅力再次绽放异彩。

Jay Birbeck is from Liverpool, a British city well known for football. He came to Dongguan, a famous basketball city in China, and sent challenges to the basketball talents here, starting a wonderful journey of adventure. Let’s take a look!

来自英国著名足球城市利物浦的小哥Jay Birbeck，来到了中国知名的篮球城市——东莞，并向这里的篮球达人发出PK，开启了一段奇遇之旅。快来一起围观吧！

"Every village has its basketball courts, there are basketball games every day." 

"From youths to seniors, there are games in different age groups."

In Dongguan, people love basketball so deeply. And Jay also became a basketball fan here.

“村村都有篮球场，天天都有篮球赛”

“从少年到老年，不同年龄段都有比赛”

在篮球氛围浓厚的东莞，Jay变身篮球迷

 Jay dunked with the "grassroots dunking king" Xiong Xiaolin.

和“草根扣篮王”熊小林学习扣篮

Jay dribbled with Xiao Hailiang, the first ever Asian Games gold medalist in 3-on-3 basketball.

向亚运史上首枚三人篮球金牌得主

肖海亮请教投篮

Jay squatted with Zhou Jizhu, the coach of the "Harvest Cup" senior basketball champion team.

与古稀之年的第一届“丰收杯”篮球冠军队教练

周吉柱切磋球技

Jay went one on one with a 12-year-old girl. 

跟12岁女篮球员一对一单挑

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Playing with the basketball lovers, Jay can not help but raved: "During my trip to Dongguan, I have deeply felt the local people's love for basketball."

在一次次的PK交流中，Jay不禁感叹：“此次东莞之行，让我深深地感受到了东莞人对篮球的热爱。“

Everyone can participate in a basketball game in Dongguan and enjoy the most simple and pure happiness of sports. It is every Dongguan people's love for basketball that has made Dongguan be a "Basketball City".每个人都能在东莞参与一场篮球赛，享受运动带来最简单纯粹的快乐。正是每位东莞人对篮球的点滴热爱，共同汇聚成了东莞“篮球城市”的城市名片。

The Publicity Department of Dongguan Municipal Committee, cooperating with China Foreign Language Publishing Administration Xufang International Media, invited foreign host to Dongguan to tell the stories of Dongguan centred on Dongguan’s "four CARDS" which are the city where modern history begins, the world-renowned manufacturing city, trendy Dongguan and the basketball city with unique perspective. It's to launch five short videos of “My China Story” in both English and Chinese.今年，东莞市委宣传部联合中国外文局煦方国际传媒，围绕近代史开篇地、国际制造名城、潮流东莞、篮球城市等东莞“四张名片”，邀请外籍主持人来莞，用第三方独特视角讲述东莞故事，拍摄制作推出5集中英文短视频《第三只眼看东莞》。
This series of short videos will be broadcast on social media platforms at home and abroad, national news agencies of five continents and KORDIA TV of New Zealand. It will contribute to tell the stories of Dongguan, Guangdong and China well and help the world know the city better.该系列短视频将落地海内外社交平台、全球五大洲国家级通讯社及新西兰国家级英文电视台KORDIA TV，让全世界看到“双万新城”的不同面，对外讲好东莞故事、广东故事、中国故事。


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