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Yang Daigang is a baseball player living in Japan. In 2005, he was ranked first by Nippon Ham. He once played for the Hams and Giants, and then went to the American Independent League. In recent years, he returned to Japan and joined the Oisix Niigata Swans. Today, he will play the last game of his 21-year career.
People in the world of football presented flower baskets to Yangdai Gang for his retirement, forming a spectacular sea of flowers. (Photo by special correspondent Ni Wanjun)
[Special Correspondent Ni Wanjun/Reporting from Niigata, Japan] The 39-year-old famous Japanese player Yang Daigang will play the last game of his 21-year career today. Before the game even started, there was already a strong farewell atmosphere outside the HARD OFF ECO stadium. A large number of congratulatory flower baskets were lined up along the outer wall of the stadium, forming a spectacular sea of flowers. The flower senders included Yang Daigang’s teammates, coaches and people in the football industry at different stages of his career in Japan.
Yang Dai Steel played the most glorious years of his career in Nippon Ham. In addition to former supervisor and current Ham CBO Kuriyama Hideki, the former supervisor and current Ham CBO Kuriyama Hideki also sent flower baskets, including Ham Second Army Supervisor Atsuki Inaba; comrades from the Giants era also showed their support, including Sakamoto Yuuto, Oshiro Takuzo, Maru Yoshihiro, Kobayashi Seiji, Nagano Hisayoshi, Uchimi Tetsuya and others. Flower baskets also appeared in the long line of blessings outside the stadium.
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In addition to former comrades-in-arms and people from the Japanese professional baseball community, the Taiwanese baseball community is also not absent. Song Jiahao, who plays for the Lotte Golden Eagles, sent a flower basket with the words "21 years of hard work" (21 years of hard work). The Taiwan Steel Eagles also sent flowers signed by chairman Wang Jiongfen and team leader Liu Dongyang to pay tribute to Yang Daigang's 21-year career.
Yang Daigang was selected No. 1 by Nippon Ham in the Nippon Professional Draft in 2005. He started his career the following year and played for the Hams and Giants. After leaving Nippon Professional League, he also went to the American Independent League to develop. In recent years, he returned to Japan to join Oisix Niigata Swan King. Before the last game of his career today, the endless sea of congratulatory flowers outside the stadium seemed to condense the popularity and friendship he had accumulated along the way.
Hideki Kuriyama (photo by special correspondent Ni Wanjun)
Taisteel Eagle also sent its blessings. (Photo by special correspondent Ni Wanjun)
Song Jiahao. (Photo by special correspondent Ni Wanjun)
Yuto Sakamoto. (Photo by special correspondent Ni Wanjun)

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