Sports Lunch | The Chinese women s volleyball team in the World League plays against the Czech Republic today, and the Chinese women s basketball team plays against Japan today

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On June 18, the 2025 World Women's Volleyball League war rekindled, and the Chinese women's volleyball team will usher in a series of tough battles at the Kai Tak Sports and Art Museum in Hong Kong. Today at 20:30, the Chinese women's volleyball team will make its debut, and its opponent is the Czech women's volleyball team.

18th at 19:30, a women's basketball warm-up match will be staged passionately at the Shaanxi Provincial Stadium, against both sides of the Chinese women's basketball team and the Japanese women's basketball team. This game is a good baseline test for the Chinese women's basketball team and a touchstone for testing players' recent status and abilities. In the NBA, the Pacers, who are still playing in the Finals, completed a 2-for-1 deal. They gave the signing rights of the No. 23 pick and Mojave King for the first round of this year, and exchanged for the first round of 2026.

World League:

Chinese women's volleyball team will face the Czech women's volleyball team tonight. On June 18, the 2025 World Women's Volleyball League war rekindled, and the Chinese women's volleyball team will usher in a series of tough battles at the Kai Tak Sports and Art Museum in Hong Kong. At 20:30 that night, the Chinese women's volleyball team will make its debut, and its opponent is the Czech women's volleyball team.

Compared with the 18-person list of Beijing Station, the Hong Kong Station has reduced the list of matches Fan Boning and libero Zheng Xinyi. The remaining 16 players include main attackers Wu Mengjie, Zhuang Yushan, Tang Xin, Dong Yuhan, deputy attackers Wang Yuanyuan, Wan Ziyue, Shan Linqian, Chen Houyu, Wang Aoqian, supporters Gong Xiangyu and Yang Shuming, second setter Zou Jiaqi, Yin Xiaolan, Zhang Zixuan, as well as libero Ni Feifan and Wang Mengjie. Li Yingying, the main scorer and who came to Hong Kong with the team, failed to be included in the Hong Kong site list due to an ankle injury.

The Chinese women's volleyball team will face the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Japan and Italy in this site. Zhao Yong said at a press conference that morning that day that, for these four games, "the Chinese team will seriously play every ball, every point, every game, every game, and pay attention to every process. This is the most important thing."

In Hong Kong, the opponents faced by the Chinese women's volleyball team have gone from weak to strong, and the strength of the Czech women's volleyball team is relatively weak, which will not bring great challenges to the Chinese women's volleyball team. Previously, the Chinese women's volleyball team won all four matches with the Czech women's volleyball team, three of which swept 3:0, with an overwhelming advantage.

According to the World League points rules, the Chinese women's volleyball team will win 3:0 and the Czech women's volleyball team will increase by 2.9 points, 3:1 and 0.4 points, and 3:2 and 0.01 points; if they lose 0:3, they will decrease by 17.1 points, 1:3 and 14.6 points, and 2:3 and 2:3 and 12.1 points.

Therefore, against the Czech women's volleyball team, it is also a match that the Chinese women's volleyball team cannot lose.

Warm-up match Xi'an Station:

Chinese women's basketball team will face the Japanese women's basketball team tonight at 19:30 on June 18. A women's basketball warm-up match will be staged passionately in the Shaanxi Provincial Stadium, against both sides of the Chinese women's basketball team and the Japanese women's basketball team. This game is a good baseline test for the Chinese women's basketball team and is also the best touchstone to test the players' recent condition and ability.

The Chinese women's basketball team performed well in the two warm-up matches with the Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team that just ended, winning with big scores of 101:55 and 124:57 respectively, showing strong strength. Especially the 18-year-old young player Zhang Ziyu scored 34 points in two games. Her height of 2.23 meters is obvious at the basket, becoming a major weapon for the Chinese women's basketball inside.

The Japanese women's basketball team is also in excellent condition. In two warm-up matches with the Chinese Taipei team, the Japanese women's basketball team won 95:42 and 89:45 respectively, winning 97 points in two games. Judging from the list of Japanese women's basketball teams, it still continues its traditional characteristics, focusing on small, fast and smart.

One of the highlights of this game is Zhang Ziyu's performance. Facing the Japanese women's basketball team, which focuses on small and fast, whether Zhang Ziyu's height advantage can be fully demonstrated and whether her dominance under the basket can limit the Japanese team's breakthroughs and offenses is worth paying attention to.

In addition, Gong Luming's guidance may use the double tower tactics of Zhang Ziyu and Han Xu. With Zhang Ziyu at the basket, Han Xu's mid-range shot advantage can be better demonstrated.

But at the same time, the double tower tactics also have certain risks, such as Zhang Ziyu's slow movement speed and Han Xu's slow defense from the outside. Faced with the Japanese team's fast offense and outside projection, whether the double tower combination can withstand the test still needs to be tested in the game.

This strong dialogue is whether the Chinese women's basketball team won the victory with their inside advantage and double tower tactics, or is the Japanese women's basketball team using their little fast spirit to laugh to the end? The answer is about to be revealed.

Club World Cup:

Dortmund drew 0:0 with Fruminense and missed a good start

In the early morning of June 18, in the first round of Group F of the Club World Cup group stage, Fruminense drew 0:0 with Dortmund.

Although both the most expensive defender Schlottbeck and captain Emre Jan were absent due to injury, Dortmund's total starting value still reached 230 million euros, while opponent Fruminense is worth 44 million euros, and the two teams have a gap of nearly 6 times.

I thought Dortmund could pass the game easily, but I didn't expect them to be beaten by Fruminense in the first half.

Dotter had only one shot in the entire first half, and that time Brandt was blown offside. On the contrary, Fruminense created a good goal opportunity. If goalkeeper Kober had not performed well, Dortmund would have fallen behind in the first half.

After changing sides in the second half, Dortmund's form rebounded. It was not until the 64th minute that Sabitz scored his first shot in the game with his "soft shot". Dort had only seven shots in the game, and Fruminense had twice their number of shots.

After the game, Dortmund goalkeeper Kober said in an interview: "We must be honest with the opponent to be stronger than us. Fruminense played obviously more dynamically on the court, was more aggressive on the defensive end, and created better opportunities on the court. So we need to make further improvements in the next game."

Although there was no good start, there should be no problem for Dortmund to qualify in the group. Next, their opponents will be Mamorody Sunset and Ulsan HD, which are obviously under Fruminense.

La Liga:

Barcelona plans to hold a debut ceremony for Joan Garcia this Friday

On June 18, according to the World Sports, Barcelona plans to hold a debut ceremony for Joan Garcia this Friday.

After the holiday in the Azores, Garcia arrived in Barcelona at noon this Tuesday. The 24-year-old goalkeeper has prepared everything for the important moment to come Wednesday.

It is expected that on the morning of the same day, the procedures for the business manager Manel del Rio from Barcelona club to the La Liga headquarters in Madrid will be officially verified and the payment of 26.3415 million euros is confirmed (i.e., 25 million euros termination fee plus the amount adjusted according to the inflation index).

It is expected that all documents will be officially signed and completed this Wednesday, as a precedent for Barcelona to announce the signing of Joan Garcia and a six-year contract.

Barcelona will officially announce the signing of the local goalkeeper, with the contract until June 30, 2031. Barcelona will no longer announce the player termination terms since last season, and the salary details have never been disclosed, but it is revealed that Garcia's annual salary is about 3 million euros. After the official announcement of the contract, a contract signing ceremony will be held and the goalkeeper will appear, and the plan is scheduled for this Friday. After that, Garcia can continue to take leave until she is dispatched by Frick. He will start his Barcelona career on July 13, and the first team will conduct a physical fitness test that day. His Barcelona debut is likely to be completed in the preseason against Kobe Victory Ship on July 27.

Barcelona will adopt a simple appearance process: no press conference is held, only a private meeting is held in the office of Chairman Laporta, and a simple interview is conducted by the club's official media.

NBA:

Pacers and Pelicans completed 2-for-1 exchanges for 1, and exchanged for the first round of 2026

On June 18, the Pacers, who are still playing in the finals, completed a 2-for-1 transaction. They gave the signing rights of the No. 23 pick and Mojave King this year, and exchanged for the first round of 2026.

For the Pacers, the deal met two goals.

One, salary expert Marks reported that the deal would clear about $3.24 million in cap space for the Pacers, giving the team more salary flexibility when re-signing Miles Turner and avoiding excessive touchdown to the luxury tax line.

Secondly, this operation will release more future first round picks for the Pacers for trading. Previously, as the "Sterpill Rules" prohibited the team from not having first-round picks for two consecutive seasons, the Pacers could only provide at most two first-round picks unconditionally in any trading plan, and now they can offer up to four (2026, 2028, 2030 and 2032). After the

trade is completed, the Pelicans have two first-round picks (No. 7 and No. 23) in this year's draft.

23-year-old Mojave King is the second round pick in 2023. He played 15 Development League games for Indiana Crazy Ants in the 2023-2024 season, and played professional leagues in Puerto Rico and his native New Zealand last season.

Currently, the Pacers trail the Thunder 2:3 in the seven-game four-win series in the finals. The sixth game will be played at the Pacers' home court. If the Thunder wins, they will win the championship directly. If the Pacers equalize, they will usher in a tiebreak.