Seven Crowns

In the exit hall of Berlin Airport, hundreds of reporters gathered around Hoffenheim coaches and team members who had just gotten off the plane to conduct interviews.

Among them, head coach Ralph Rangnick and team core Lu Wenbin are naturally the most interviewed.

Especially those reporters from China are quite excited.

In fact, they basically interviewed Lu Wenbin long ago in Hoffenheim.

Therefore, here, they did not surround Lu Wenbin, but mostly took pictures of Lu Wenbin being surrounded and interviewed by foreign reporters on the periphery.

The sight of Chinese people being welcomed by journalists from various countries in the European football world makes them proud as compatriots, and they want to report these pictures back to China.

Not only these reporters, but also many Hoffenheim fans who were stopped by the airport security guards greeted the arrival of the team with scarves of "TSG 1899 Hoffenheim".

At the same time, Chinese students and overseas Chinese with small national flags are also indispensable to welcome Lu Wenbin.

After seeing Lu Wenbin's appearance, the fans and the Chinese were extremely excited and shouted Lu Wenbin's name, including many screaming female fans.

Since he continued to score well in the first team, Lu Wenbin has been interviewed by reporters after every game, but there were not as many reporters in the past, nor as many foreign reporters today.

When Lu Wenbin calmed down, he was able to deal with them calmly with a panacea's answer.

Reporter: "Lu, how are you doing, can you start tomorrow's game?"

Lu Wenbin: "I'm in good shape, but whether I play or not depends on the coach's arrangement."

Reporter: "If you play tomorrow, can you continue to score goals against Bayern Munich and keep the record of scoring goals in a game?"

Lu Wenbin: "It doesn't matter whether I score goals or not, as long as the team can perform well."

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While coping with the reporters' interviews, Lu Wenbin followed his teammates out of the hall, got on the team bus that the club drove to Berlin in advance, and went to the hotel arranged by the club near the Berlin Olympic Sports Center to stay.

At the pre-match press conference that afternoon, Bayern Munich head coach and famous German coach Hitzfeld announced Bayern's starting list for the final in an open-minded manner, without any fear of Hoffenheim's preparations.

No matter how good Hoffenheim has achieved in the Bundesliga and how remarkable Lu Wenbin's consecutive goals are, in Germany, Bayern Munich has always been the leader of the pack.

Their opponent is not in Germany at all, but in Europe.

Heathfield did not shy away from announcing the starting list, and Ralph didn't play any prudence.

Although he coached the Bundesliga team, he himself is not a nobody.

Heathfield has announced the starting list so openly, and Ralph is naturally not afraid of him, it seems that he has bowed his head before the game starts.

Therefore, Ralph also openly announced Hoffenheim's starting roster.

After the starters are announced, there is no need for Ralph to tell what formation Hoffenheim will play: the same 442 midfield diamond that Hoffenheim played against Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-finals at the Westfalenstadion bit pattern.

In the evening, major media and television stations analyzed the starting lineups and formations of the two sides, and made guesses about the results of the game.

Of course, in addition to the fans who support Hoffenheim, most "reasonable" people will not think that Hoffenheim can beat Bayern Munich to win the championship, including the Chinese.

Even if Hoffenheim eliminated Dortmund at the Westfalenstadion, even if Lu Wenbin still maintains the record of scoring more than 2 goals per game.

The inherent impression makes people look at the names of the two teams,

It is natural to think that the final winner must be Bayern Munich.

Even in China, most of Lu Wenbin's fans and fellow fans expect Bayern Munich to win the championship, and Lu Wenbin only needs to score a goal and perform well.

CCTV-5 did not broadcast the German Cup final live, but there was a live broadcast on the Internet.

At that time, fans from China and Lu Wenbin's parents, relatives, classmates, and friends will be able to watch the German Cup final with Lu Wenbin through live broadcast.

The following day, April 19, Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim were given some time to familiarize themselves with the pitch during the day slot.

As the venue for the final of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the Berlin Olympic Stadium, with a capacity of 75,000 spectators, is larger and more majestic than the Westfalenstadion.

Of course, this is a neutral site, not the home of Bayern Munich, and there is no stand for Bayern fans to stand and cheer for the team.

Therefore, Lu Wenbin and others, who had only seen the Westfalen Stadium in the quarter-finals, only sighed at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, which is much larger than the Hope Stadium, and then devoted themselves to training familiar with the venue.

According to the regulations of FIFA, in addition to international competitions, the football field used in ordinary leagues only needs to be between 90 and 120 meters in length and between 45 and 90 meters in width.

Therefore, in football matches, the length, width, and size of many football fields are not fixed. Some fields are larger, some are smaller, and the turf composition is ever-changing.

Therefore, there is a process of warming up and getting familiar with the venue before the game.

At the same time, it is also the reason why most teams play a bit worse than the home game when they go to the away game, and sometimes even look like two teams, which is the reason why the so-called home dragon and away bug.

Not only the pressure from away fans, but also the unfamiliarity of the venue, changes in the size of the stadium, etc., will cause some players to play abnormally, which will affect the entire team.

After getting familiar with the venue, it is time to wait for the official start of the game.

After lunch, fans who arrived early were waiting outside the stadium. For their afternoon meals, they have to settle in bars and restaurants around the stadium, or even just buy some snacks to fill their stomachs.

At 17:00 in the afternoon, the stadium opens two hours earlier, and anxious fans can start to enter the stadium with tickets.

Over time, the stadium seats were slowly occupied.

Although this is a neutral site, it is, after all, the first heavyweight champion of the German League in 2008, and there are a lot of people watching the game.

Bayern Munich fans are all over the country, and there are quite a few Hoffenheim fans who participated in the German Cup final for the first time. There are also fans of football stars in the two teams, such as overseas Chinese and Chinese students who support Lu Wenbin.

Naturally, there are also local citizens of the capital Berlin and many neutral fans who are just watching the championship fight, as well as football association officials, star politicians and so on.

As a result, the entire Berlin Olympiastadion was filled to the brim as the game approached.

The final battle of the 2007/2008 German Cup, the German Cup final between Bayern Munich VS Hoffenheim, is about to begin!