Chapter 647: Confederation Cup
After a second wedding at Dietford, the transfer was handed over to Mendes and his assistants, with Lu Wenbin and Kate flying to Brazil for the 2013 Confederations Cup.
In fact, the Chinese men's national football team has already arrived in Brazil to start pre-match adaptation training, only Lu Wenbin was delayed because of his marriage, so he came late and did not report until the game was about to start.
Strictly speaking, this is also a phenomenon of playing big names, and it should be criticized.
However, Lu Wenbin is because he is married, not other miscellaneous matters, so everyone will not say more.
Moreover, before Lu Wenbin, except for a small number of overseas Chinese, the training base of the Chinese team did not have many people to watch, and there were very few media reporters.
When Lu Wenbin arrived, the number of Brazilian fans and reporters from various countries outside the training ground suddenly increased, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered outside the training base every day to watch the training of the Chinese team or ask Lu Wenbin for autographs.
Even the fans of Brazil, the kingdom of football, were conquered by Lu Wenbin's skills, which shows that Lu Wenbin is different.
In an interview with reporters, Lu Wenbin low-key declared that the Chinese team is here to learn and accumulate experience in participating in the World Championships, and will not have any ideas about the championship.
His record of winning the championship will definitely be stopped in this Confederations Cup.
Lu Wenbin's assertion caused a burst of laughter from reporters, and after it was published, fans felt the humility of Chinese.
No matter how strong Lu Wenbin is, football is a collective sport after all, and it will take 11 people to compare after all.
In the Confederations Cup, no one believed that the Chinese team could win the championship, no matter how perverted Lu Wenbin was.
Lu Wenbin himself doesn't believe it.
He only hopes that his teammates will give a little bit of strength, win one or two games, and be able to qualify from the group, which is the greatest success.
After rushing to Brazil to join the Chinese training team, Lu Wenbin also received a systematic task about the Confederations Cup.
The task of the Confederations Cup is more different from that of the Olympic Games, and there are even rewards for each step, and the rewards are huge in layers.
National team competitions have increasingly become the most important way for Lu Wenbin to gain experience and skill points: the proportion of national team competition rewards in the system is too large.
Perhaps, the makers of the system are future Chinese fans?
It's a mystery.
Mission 41: First win in an international competition
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to the first victory in the 2013 Confederations Cup, and win the first victory of the Chinese men's senior national team in an international competition.
Reward: 1,000,000 XP + 10 Skill Points
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Mission 42: Qualify from the group stage
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to qualify for the group in the 2013 Confederations Cup and advance to the semi-finals.
Reward: 2,000,000 XP + 20 Skill Points
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Mission 43: Advance to the finals
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to victory in the semi-finals of the 2013 Confederations Cup and advance to the final.
Reward: 5,000,000 XP + 50 Skill Points
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Mission 44: Confederations Cup Champion
Requirements: Led the Chinese team to win the 2013 Confederations Cup.
Reward: 10,000,000 XP + 100 Skill Points
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Looking at these rewards, Lu Wenbin was about to drool.
However, he knows that the possibility of the Chinese team winning the championship is almost zero.
However, it is up to them to win their first international game and qualify from the group.
If he can advance to the final, he can even add the special skill of free kicks to the grandmaster level, and then he can also increase the attributes of the goalkeeper to more than ten points.
As the tournament approached, the media coverage of the Confederations Cup increased, and the eyes of fans around the world converged on Brazil.
The Confederations Cup has attracted much more attention than the Olympic football competition.
Olympic football itself is a youth team below the U23 level, and it has also been diverted by other sports, and it is not as competitive as the Confederations Cup.
As a preview of the World Cup the following year, the Confederations Cup is increasingly being taken seriously by the media and fans.
On June 16, the 2013 Brazilian Confederations Cup officially kicked off, with the opening match of Brazil vs Tahiti, and the venue was the Gacharin National Stadium in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
After 90 minutes, hosts Brazil beat Tahiti 3-0 and got off to a comfortable start.
Subsequently, the other six teams from both groups began to fight each other.
Mexico lost 2-1 to Italy and Spain beat Uruguay 2-1.
In the last group game, it was time for the Chinese team to play.
On the evening of June 17, in Belo Horizonte, the fourth largest city in Brazil, the second largest stadium in Brazil - Estadio Mineiro (second only to the Maracanã Stadium), the second group stage of the first round of Group B of the Chinese team vs Nigeria is about to begin.
The match attracted more than 60,000 fans and filled more than 60,000 seats.
Among them, nearly half are Chinese fans or overseas Chinese, which shows that there are many Chinese.
Everyone pulled banners, shouted slogans, and sang songs, preparing for the first international match of the Chinese men's national football team.
Nigerian fans, on the other hand, are only a few thousand people, and the rest are local citizens of Belo Horizonte.
It's not that Nigeria doesn't have a small population, but that their economic conditions are not as good as China's, which is developing rapidly.
Even though the country has a population of more than 100 million and a lot of fans, there are not many Nigerian fans who can afford to travel to Brazil to cheer for the national team.
In the eager waiting of countless fans at the scene and in front of the TV, the time came to 19 o'clock in the evening.
With the referee's whistle, the second match of the first round of Group B of the 2013 Confederations Cup group stage of China VS Nigeria officially began.
Naturally, the Chinese team continued to defend and counterattack with 4231 as always, while Nigeria relied on their good black physicality to play a 433 attack formation, and launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team at the beginning of the game.
If you don't attack, you can't do it.
Lu Wenbin of the Chinese team is really too perverted.
Even if Nigeria defends with all their might, it is unlikely that they will not concede a goal.
Long shots, grabbing points, supplementary shots, free kicks, corner kicks, headers, etc., Lu Wenbin has too many ways to score goals, and his ability is too strong.
It is almost impossible for Lu Wenbin not to score a goal in a game.
As a result, Lu Wenbin's opponent was faced with a situation where he had to score goals, which was the helplessness of Lu Wenbin's opponent.
Of course, as the African champion, Nigeria has no reason to fear the Chinese team except for Lu Wenbin alone.
Therefore, Nigeria's tactics in this game are relatively simple: attack all over the field and compare the number of goals with Lu Wenbin.
And Nigeria's physique, physical fitness, speed, etc., have indeed thrown off the other Chinese team players except Lu Wenbin, making it difficult for the Chinese team to parry, even if Lu Wenbin returns to help the defense, it is useless.
In just 5 minutes of the opening game, Nigerian full-back Mba made a cross from the bottom, and center forward Juha squeezed away Wang Qiang and Zhao Peng in the forbidden area, and grabbed the first nod to hit the goal.
If it weren't for the slightly correct angle, which was blocked by Zeng Cheng subconsciously waving his hand, and then being cleared by Zheng Zhi, I'm afraid the Chinese team would have fallen behind.