路透社对黄健翔事件报导原文:"偏爱意大利解说员的中国危机"

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China crisis over commentator who just loves Italy

　Tuesday June 27, 05:53 PM
China crisis over commentator who just loves Italy
BEIJING, June 27 (Reuters) - The dramatic climax of Italy's 1-0 victory over Australia on Monday proved too much for China's most popular television commentator, who departed from his normal objectivity with a passionate paean to Italian football.
Huang Jianxiang, who was commentating for an audience of millions on the state-run CCTV, was unable to control his enthusiasm when Fabio Grosso went down in a challenge and a last-minute penalty was awarded to the Italians.

"Penalty! Penalty! Penalty!" he screamed. "Grosso's done it, Grosso's done it! ADVERTISEMENT



"The great Italian left back! He succeeded in the glorious traditions of Italy! Facchetti, Cabrini and Maldini, their souls are infused in him at this moment!

"Grosso represents the long history and traditions of Italian soccer, he's not fighting alone at this moment! He's not alone!"

Chinese television audiences, expected to rise to an accumulated total of 10 billion before the end of the tournament, are not often served up such South American-style passion and Huang's bias has provoked a storm of controversy in the media.


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More was to come when Francesco Totti converted the penalty to win the match and Huang had a special mention for Australia's Dutch coach Guus Hiddink, whose South Korea side knocked Italy out of the last World Cup.

"Goooooal! Game over! Italy win! Beat the Australians!" he shouted, his voice now breaking. "They do not fall in front of Hiddink again! Italy the great! Left back the great! Happy birthday to Maldini! Forza Italia!

"The victory belongs to Italy, to Grosso, to Cannavaro, to Zambrotta, to Buffon, to Maldini, to everyone who loves Italian soccer!"

"Hiddink ... lost all his courage faced with Italian history and traditions ... He finally reaped fruits which he had sown! They should go home. They don't need to go as far away as Australia as most of them are living in Europe. Farewell!"

An unapologetic Huang later said he could not remember what he had said in the heat of the moment and his preference for Italy was because he had commentated on Serie A for many years.

"I'm more familiar with Italian players ... and I don't like Australians indeed," he said. "I was hoping they'd do badly here."

Australia recently joined the Asian Football Confederation and from the next World Cup will contest for one of their qualification spots.

"Do you remember how China were blocked from going to the Spain World Cup in a qualifier in 1981?" Huang said.

"It was a team just like Australia, all of whom were living and playing in England but with New Zealand passports. It still hurts ... and in 2009, Australia will be just like New Zealand at that time."

(additional reporting by Liu Zhen)

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有点搞笑...小黄丢人丢大了...
　Football World Cup
Never mind the Ballacks: Grosso improves relations
      

Eurosport - Mike Hytner - 27/06/2006 15:04
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COMMENT: The guilty party is...With a little help from Fabio Grosso and a crazed commentator, relations between Italy and China are at an all-time high on Tuesday, as NMTB reveals the real reasons for Harry Kewell's absence from his side's defeat at the hands of the Italians and Cristoph Metzelder's copious facial hair growth.

China and Italy may outwardly have little in common, and the two nations - traditionally at opposing ends of the political spectrum - could never be classed in the 'best mates' category.

But a public outpouring of passion for Italian football from a well-respected football commentator on live television on Monday could have changed the two nations' relationship forever.

Huang Jianxiang - a commentator for the state-run CCTV - found Fabio Grosso's last gasp dive to win a penalty in injury time simply too much to handle, as he delivered a pro-Italy rant not seen since the days of Il Duce to millions of shocked spectators.

"Penalty! Penalty! Penalty!" he screamed. "Grosso's done it, Grosso's done it!

"The great Italian left back!" he continued, clearly forgetting that Grosso had just fallen over without so much as a whiff of contact with the prone Lucas Neill.

"He succeeded in the glorious traditions of Italy!" he added, clearly remembering that the Italians are the masters of such dark arts. "Facchetti, Cabrini and Maldini, their souls are infused in him at this moment!

"Grosso represents the long history and traditions of Italian soccer, he's not fighting alone at this moment! He's not alone!"

More of the same was to follow after substitute Francesco Totti managed to keep his calm to slot home the spot kick and book Italy's place in the quarter finals.

"Goooooal! Game over! Italy win! Beat the Australians!" he shouted, his voice now breaking. "They do not fall in front of Hiddink again! Italy the great! Left back the great! Happy birthday to Maldini! Forza Italia!

"The victory belongs to Italy, to Grosso, to Cannavaro, to Zambrotta, to Buffon, to Maldini, to everyone who loves Italian soccer!"

Huang's outburst - clearly influenced by his South American counterparts - has caused a storm in China, although the man himself is refusing to take responsibility, claiming that he cannot remember what came out of his mouth in the heat of the moment.

We'll remind you then Huang - a load of old claptrap.

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Huang has deeply hurt the feelings of the Australian people. We're all going down to the Chinese Embassy in Canberra to throw rocks through their windows.

Posted by: zhuanjia | June 27, 2006 07:02 PMThe Chinese commentary standard generally is abysmal....so many errors in names of players, facts and so on, plus an incredible lack of knowledge and expression...at least this guy was showing a bit of passion! My top two CCTV commentary bits:

Germany v Poland, 92 minutes, Germany snatch a late winner....we see the goal, get three replays, all the while the dude is screaming BALLACK! BALLACK!! INCREDIBLE!! BALLACK!! Problem was, Michael Ballack didn't get the goal, it was Oliver Neuville.....

Holland vs Portugal, 70 minutes
A dirty game, but very entertaining - alas the commentator was unimpressed by the play. After Deco hacks down a Dutch player, the commentator, in the most sneering way possible, says "Chinese fans want to see exciting play and excellent teamwork, not such violence'.....pah! U ever seen a taxi smash mate??? There is nothing that the Chinese love more than gawking at a couple of guys going at it bell and whistle!!!

I've been so amazed and impressed by how my Chinese co-workers have got into this World Cup, such interest and enthusiasm....I guess ignorance of decent coverage is bliss.


Posted by: Angus | June 27, 2006 08:05 PMMy fiancee and I were watching the broadcast this morning and it was definitely way over the top and didn't pay any respect to the good efforts of the Australian team. I would be able to understand if he was commentating on the Chinese team, but why does he have to favour one foreign team over another? You can refer to my blog to see our comments: www.whitepage.com.au/chinamachete

Posted by: Xiao Zhu | June 27, 2006 08:22 PMEveryone is biased, that's not a problem; but Huang's a bit hysteria this time, even a neutral Chinese soccer fan like me felt been insulted by his words. I follwed up the related postings in tianya.cn nearly all day today and found the opinions of the netizens very polarized. My own analysis of Huang's evolvement is in the beginning of his career he followed the British commentators' style trying to show more restraint, but now he might have changed his mind to pursue the more enthusiastic Latin style instead;-) Only the simulation this time is ugly with wrong occasion.

Posted by: william | June 27, 2006 08:24 PMIs this what we can expect during the Olympics?

Posted by: michael | June 27, 2006 09:06 PMwilliam: Huang is typically fairly decent, I think, but he's been criticized this World Cup for being a bit lackluster, like he's been under the weather - some people have suggested that this outburst was meant to answer his critics...

Angus: Ironically, Chinese fans seem to enjoy those kinds of mistakes - Han Qiaosheng is one commentator notorious for his errors, and seems to have made a career out of it: http://pianpian.160.cc/yourindex/aindex/a0001.htm

zhuanjia: Not only has Huang hurt Australia's feelings, but it's been suggested that his hatred is due in part to a grudge China carries against New Zealand for running up the score against Saudi Arabia 25 years ago to force China out of the qualifiers - all you Oceana teams are all the same.

Posted by: Joel | June 27, 2006 09:12 PMWhat's the big deal?

Actually, it's nice to hear someone in Chinese media who is not afraid to express his opinion.

Posted by: beautiful game boy | June 27, 2006 09:18 PMAnd it is the Year of Italy in China after all, no.

Posted by: Stronzo | June 27, 2006 09:26 PMhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldcup/2006/06/my_soul_is_crumbling.html

The BBC blog also refers (but does not link) to the "AP's report".

Posted by: LfC | June 27, 2006 10:24 PMAnother possible explanation: on January 1st 2006 Australia joined the Asian Football Confederation. This gives Australia a better chance of qualifying for future world cups (without an automatic qualification spot, the top Oceania team needs to qualify by winning a play-off with a runner-up from another federation). This threatens China’s already shaky chances of qualifying for future world cups.

Posted by: Aussie sympathizer | June 28, 2006 12:22 AMthat huang guy should be lynched. cctv should really get proper commentators instead of the current bunch of f**ktardos. couldnt agree more with angus...every time they those schooboy mistakes, it makes me cringe. i'm sure anyone of us make better commentators than those morons. i'm angry. and i'm not even australian.

Posted by: scott | June 28, 2006 01:15 AMThat Huang guy acted in a crazy way. I think probably he was trying to be passionate to get higher ratings for his programs and more fame for himself. As a Chinese, I feel sorry for Australians who are offended. But at the same time I really don't think this is a big deal in the sense of the relationship between Chinese and Australians. I do suggest people to ignore that Huang person.

Dafei

Posted by: Dafei | June 28, 2006 07:23 AMDo Chinese really believe Australians give a f*** what some unknown TV commentator thinks about them? [But I must admit Australian commentators are hardly open minded].

Posted by: dave | June 28, 2006 08:19 AMHas it not occured to anyone that, as with other CCTV employees, Huang probably bet on Italy winning?

The notion of conflict-of-interest is alien to Chinese and probably this situation is no exception.

Posted by: Figures of Speech | June 28, 2006 08:20 AMTwo Things:
Can 30 Australians really surround an embassy?

Commentary in Australia of any sport is hardly what you could call unbaised, and rightly so, sport is about passion. Its not as though Huang changed the result or kicked the penalty.

Posted by: Ben | June 28, 2006 08:36 AMThing is we'd all understand if it was the Chinese team playing - sports reporters are pretty much expected to be pro their own country's team - but Italy? Either there's an ulterior motive or the man just got caught up in his commentary, which is at least a bit more exciting than the "hao qiu" "hao qiu" nonsense which seems to pass for commentary on CCTV.

Posted by: Ivory | June 28, 2006 09:09 AMto dave:

ummm, yes Aussies do. The story is on the top of Sydney Morning Herald's site this morning: http://www.smh.com.au/news/aussie-update/i-dont-like-australians-indeed/2006/06/28/1151174235245.html

this might bring on more anti-Chinese sentiment, all because of some bad piece of football commentary.

my own thoughts: Australia was robbed. That was a shit game.

Posted by: wen | June 28, 2006 10:27 AMHuang Jianxiang has apologised for his commentary. TV host Zhang Bin read out his apology last night. Looks like a face-saving exercise since there's no real explanation about what sent him crazy, besides a fondness for Italy.

Posted by: Xiao Zhu | June 28, 2006 10:37 AMI don't think that people would have been quite so upset if his reaction had been limited to hysteria after the goal was scored and the game was won. But he started calling Grosso a hero when he fell in the box - if he's not cheering the guy for taking a fall, then he's calling someone a hero merely for drawing a penalty. Either way, it's poor form.

Posted by: Joel | June 28, 2006 10:41 AMPlease don't talk about lynching Huang: it's just a football game after all.

It is difficult to believe that Australians could be so sensitive to such twaddle.

Just deny his kids a visa when they try to go to school in Sydney!

Posted by: No lynching please | June 28, 2006 10:47 AMI was most confuised when he started screaming 'happy birthday maldini!!!" maldini who is not even in the Italy squad that is.

the guy went way, way over the top. I can't understand his reaction. Maybe he underestimated the strength of the german beer he was supping at half time. It ain't tsingtao you know.

Posted by: mike | June 28, 2006 11:18 AM

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　http://www.smh.com.au/
小黄女儿将来留学澳洲真有点难度了:D

http://www.smh.com.au/news/aussie-update/i-dont-like-australians-indeed/2006/06/28/1151174235245.html

配上黄的大头像，还有著名的“三分钟语录”，全地球人都知道这位老兄啦，想不出名也难

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　http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzGMTD4ZufQ&eurl=
黄的辩护者没有话说了吧？
我的感觉：除非他发了疯，否则他必定参与了赌球。

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