Chapter 339: World Footballer of the Year
The last league game before the winter break brought Lu Wenbin 3 goals, 30,000 wins, 20,000 wins, and a total of 50,000 experience rewards.
Combined with the 30,000 experience gained against Eintracht Frankfurt in the last round, Lu Wenbin's system experience has risen to 3,649,500,000 at level 17.
Hoffenheim also ranked first in the Bundesliga standings with 43 points from 17 league games in the first half of the season, 8 points ahead of second place Bayer Leverkusen to win the Bundesliga winter break title in the 20092010 season.
This season's Bundesliga title is likely to be Hoffenheim's bag.
First in the league, the German Cup advanced to the quarterfinals, and the Champions League group stage won all to advance to the knockout round, Hoffenheim continued to be strong last season, and there are already media and fans talking about whether Hoffenheim will win the treble.
Last season's small treble, if there is a big treble this season, this is definitely the most awesome promotion horse in history, even more awesome than Nottingham Forest!
Of course, the Hoffenheim team will always attract the most attention, Lu Wenbin.
The total number of goals scored in 2009 was 94, which is absolutely jaw-dropping.
Of these 94 goals, Lu Wenbin used 52 games, with an average of 1.8 goals per game, which is shocking.
Others can score two goals in one game, even if they perform very well, but to Lu Wenbin, scoring two goals has become the standard, as simple as drinking boiled water.
After the game, the world's media reported about Lu Wenbin's annual total goal record of 94 goals, and many fans who had not paid attention to football for a long time and saw the news for the first time were stunned and couldn't believe it.
If someone scores twenty or thirty goals a year, he is considered an excellent striker, and if he scores forty or fifty goals a year, he is an absolute high-yield top scorer, but Lu Wenbin scored 94 goals a year, which is really unbelievable!
The series of cumbersome reports and heated discussions in the media have affected the popularity of FIFA's upcoming World Footballer of the Year award ceremony, and some people even shouted that the World Footballer of the Year should be Lu Wenbin's, not Messi's.
Of course, this is unrealistic.
Not to mention that the voting for the World Footballer of the Year has long ended, and Lu Wenbin's annual total goal record can no longer add points to him.
Moreover, the voters of the World Footballer are mainly voted by the national team coach and captain, and Lu Wenbin has only participated in two national team matches in total, and it is still an event like the Asian Cup qualifiers, so he has no sense of existence in world football at all.
The Chinese team is also a rookie in the national team map of world football, which will definitely affect Lu Wenbin's evaluation in their minds.
What's more, in the 2009 Club World Cup final that just ended two days ago, Messi also scored a goal and led Barcelona to defeat the Copa Libertadores champion Argentina's Estudiantes de La Plata to win the championship 21, completing the annual five crowns in 2009.
If it weren't for the defeat of Hoffenheim led by Lu Wenbin in the UEFA Super Cup, Barcelona would have even completed the feat of winning the six crowns in 2009.
Even so, the five-crown crown deserves the respect and admiration of the whole world.
Therefore, this year's World Footballer of the Year must be Messi's, and it cannot be Lu Wenbin's, the same as the Golden Ball.
Of course, whether he won the first place or not, Lu Wenbin had to attend the award ceremony because he was one of the final five-man list.
After playing the last round of league games before the winter break, on December 20, Hoffenheim FC held an early Christmas dinner before the holiday.
During the dinner, General Manager Rothouse found Lu Wenbin and tested the possibility of renewing the contract.
Speaking of which, Rothouse is really a little depressed.
It can be said that Lu Wenbin's growth speed is beyond the speed of his brain's imagination.
When it came time to renew his contract in the summer, both Rotthouse and owner Hope thought that the 100 million euro liquidated damages were high enough, and no crazy owner of any club would use 100 million euros to buy a player.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he renewed his contract with Lu Wenbin, Ronaldo broke the bombshell of 96 million euros transferred to Real Madrid.
Now that half a season has passed, comparing Ronaldo's performance, and looking at Lu Wenbin's performance of scoring goals on all fronts and scoring a total of 94 goals in the year, 100 million euros may not be scary.
Although there is no Champions League and no Golden Ball, there is really a team that will pay 100 million to take Lu Wenbin away.
What's more, Hoffenheim has not been eliminated from this season's Champions League, who can say whether Lu Wenbin will lead Hoffenheim to win this season's Champions League or even the treble?
If Lu Wenbin leads Hoffenheim to win the treble again, coupled with dazzling personal data, then next year's Mr. Golden Ball is simply a certainty!
At that time, the liquidated damages of 100 million euros will really not be expensive.
Lu Wenbin's role in the Hoffenheim formation is too great, and it can be said that he has become a transcendent existence.
Whether you admit it or not, it is a fact that most of Hoffenheim's achievements are supported by Lu Wenbin.
Therefore, although the contract has only been renewed for half a year, Rothouse wants to talk to Lu Wenbin about renewing the contract again, the main purpose is to increase the liquidated damages.
But Lu Wenbin didn't want to.
In the case of having a football championship system, Lu Wenbin's strength will only get stronger and stronger, and he will not lack championship honors wherever he goes.
In this case, Lu Wenbin will pay more attention to his world influence and income.
It is certain that the influence of the Bundesliga is not as good as that of the Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A, and it is impossible for Hoffenheim to offer him an annual salary of more than 10 million after tax similar to that given by Real Madrid to Ronaldo.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin turned the subject and asked Rothouse to go to Mendes, and Rothouse had no choice but to give up.
After the Christmas dinner, Hoffenheim officially went on holiday.
On the morning of December 21, Lu Wenbin and his girlfriend Kate flew to Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the year-end awards ceremony held by FIFA.
Although the results were only revealed at the awards ceremony, the final result did not surprise most people: Messi came first and won the 2009 World Footballer of the Year.
Messi completed the achievement of the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year in the same year.
Lu Wenbin is still in second place, and Cristiano Ronaldo is still in third place. Moreover, Lu Wenbin's votes are a little far behind Messi.
The national team has no results, which obviously affects the voters' evaluation of Lu Wenbin.
Of course, because Lu Wenbin has just completed a hat-trick in the final round of the league, improving the annual total goal record to a height of 94 goals.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin's popularity is not lower than Messi's, and he was interviewed by many reporters after the award ceremony.
After the award ceremony, Lu Wenbin and the two returned to Germany and began to deal with Lu Wenbin's contract renewal and commercial endorsements.
Lu Wenbin told Mendes that with his current performance, Hoffenheim wants to renew his contract, and the first annual salary of the Bundesliga alone is no longer enough, unless Hoffenheim fires the world's first annual salary that exceeds Ronaldo and Messi, the contract renewal will not be negotiated.
In terms of commercial endorsements, the performance of the top scorer in the Champions League and breaking the record of Ruud van Nistelrooy, with a total of 94 goals for the year, naturally makes Lu Wenbin more and more attractive to advertisers.
However, Lu Wenbin's worth is also getting higher and higher. not only endorses the high price, but also picks a well-known brand, which can bring additional exposure to Lu Wenbin.
Small brands are no longer even qualified to negotiate.
In the end, Lu Wenbin, with the assistance of Mendes, signed three big European brands and finished filming the advertisement.
Then, Lu Wenbin and Kate returned to Meitan, Guizhou, China, just before New Year's Day, to spend the Gregorian New Year at home with their parents.
In this profession, and still playing football in Europe, there is no way to spend the Lunar New Year at home, and you can only make up for it by spending the Gregorian New Year at home.
In Meitan, Kate, a beautiful and sexy foreign beauty who can speak Chinese, earned face for Lu Wenbin's parents among relatives and colleagues.
However, I couldn't stay long.
Because the game of the Chinese national team is about to start.
The other players had already been training intensively, and it was only Lu Wenbin who could get this special treatment, and he didn't report it until the game was about to start.
On January 3, 2010, Lu Wenbin, his parents and Kate boarded a plane to Hangzhou.
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