Seven Crowns

Because Hoffenheim's original home stadium, Dietmar Hope Stadium, can only accommodate more than 5,000 people, and the capacity for playing the Bundesliga is too low to meet the requirements.

Therefore, the German Football Association requires Hoffenheim to find another venue, otherwise Hoffenheim will not be eligible to participate in the Bundesliga.

The new stadium that Dietmar Hope has invested in in Rhein-Neckar has not yet been completed and cannot be put into use.

Therefore, the club can only borrow the home of other teams in the surrounding area.

Hoffenheim is not far from Stuttgart, less than 100 kilometers.

However, Stuttgart, as a competitor in the Bundesliga, naturally will not lend the stadium to Hoffenheim.

If it is loaned to Hoffenheim, when it is Hoffenheim's turn to play against Stuttgart at home, Stuttgart has to use the visiting team's locker room on its own stadium, which is unpleasant to think about.

After looking around, I finally found the Mannheim Football Club, which is 50 kilometers away.

Mannheim is currently playing the fourth-tier German regional league, with low attendance and low ticket revenue, and there is no competition with Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.

Therefore, the Mannheim team is willing to rent their home Carl Benz Stadium, which can accommodate more than 26,000 people, to Hoffenheim to earn some rent as the home ground for Hoffenheim to play the Bundesliga this season.

Of course, it will not actually take a season, because the new Rhein-Neckar Stadium is expected to be ready for use after the winter break.

But Mannheim managed to catch a big boss, how could they agree that you only use it for half a season?

In the end, in order to avoid being kicked back to the Bundesliga by the Football Association as a joke, Hoffenheim could only obediently pay the rent for one season.

Who told Hoffenheim to have a Forbes billionaire boss?

Sometimes, this kind of extortion is unavoidable, just as Chelsea basically spends a lot of money to buy people.

After the home court for the 2008/2009 season was determined, the team's first friendly opponent was also determined, which is Mannheim.

Even if it was just a friendly match, and the venue was more than 50 kilometers away, more than 2,000 fans flocked to Hoffenheim.

Adding to the curious Mannheim fans, more than 5,000 people came to the friendly match.

Witnessed by more than 5,000 fans, Hoffenheim, who is already a Bundesliga team, beat Mannheim 8-1, and did not save face for the "landlord" at all.

In this game, Lu Wenbin, who was wearing the No. 9 shirt, scored a free kick and five sports goals. He scored a total of 6 goals. Even the fans of Mannheim could only give Lu Wenbin a round of applause to show that they of surprise.

This friendly match may be because the level difference is too far, the experience is quite low, each assist is only 50 points, the goal is 100 points, and the win is 200 points of experience.

Lu Wenbin has no assists, only 6 goals with 600 points + 200 points for team wins, a total of 800 experience points, and the experience value has risen to 50012/100,000 at level 12.

After the first friendly match, the team continued to return to the training base for training.

A few days later, on July 16, the Chinese Football Association announced the final list of national Olympic teams participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, without Lu Wenbin.

Kate understands Chinese, and when she saw the news when she was browsing Chinese websites, she couldn't help but called Lu Wenbin in surprise and asked if the Chinese football level was very high. Even a young man below the U23 level would not be able to enter the Bundesliga Golden Boot like Lu Wenbin. Formed the Chinese Olympic team.

Lu Wenbin had to tell Kate that he provoked fans after scoring a goal in the game last season. The Football Association thought that he was impulsive and should not join the Olympic team to increase instability.

After listening to it, Kate was disdainful for a while, and told Lu Wenbin that a national team would definitely not be able to not recruit a powerful striker because of this trivial matter.

There must be other reasons, but Lu Wenbin doesn't know it.

Lu Wenbin thought about it and thought that Kate was right, but he couldn't guess the reason. Anyway, if you don't call up, you won't be called up. You can stay at the club and strive to complete the task of winning the triple crown this season.

As a result, within a few days, Lu Wenbin's mood improved.

Because he added a potential physique with 2 skill points before, it really changed from 12/13 to 13/13.

In addition, Lu Wenbin's height and weight are still slowly increasing, and his body is still developing.

On July 22, Hoffenheim went to England to play a friendly match with Blackburn, who ranked seventh in the Premier League last season, at Ewood Park.

This game taught Lu Wenbin a profound lesson, and also made him realize how far he is from Ruud van Nistelrooy who can stand in the Premier League.

Blackburn not only has the generally rough and tough defensive style of British teams, but also has much more defensive experience in the back line than the Bundesliga teams that Lu Wenbin encountered before.

Perhaps the difference in physical quality is not too far, but the tough style and experience on defense are indeed very different.

Originally it was an expedition across the sea, and he was a little tired. When he suddenly encountered an opponent with such a different playing style, Lu Wenbin was even more uncomfortable.

After 60 minutes of the game, Lu Wenbin didn't know how many times he was knocked down, and the opponent hadn't been called for a foul by the referee, saying it was a reasonable collision.

Within 60 minutes, Lu Wenbin only scored one goal for Hoffenheim, but Blackburn scored 3 goals for Hoffenheim, and Hoffenheim trailed Blackburn 3-1 in the away game.

In the 60th minute, Lu Wenbin was replaced by Ralph with Deng Baba.

The Blackburn fans in the stands also laughed loudly:

"This is the strength of the German Bundesliga Golden Boot?"

"It's already said that it is the Bundesliga. How strong do you still expect him? If the strength is really strong, why is it not the Bundesliga golden boot?"

"Humph, what if it's the Bundesliga Golden Boot? Come to the Premier League, and he won't be able to find the North!"

"Yeah! With this thin body, he can only play in the German league! If he comes to the Premier League, it is guaranteed that he can't finish a season, and he has to go to the hospital!"

"good!"

Now Lu Wenbin can understand some daily conversations in English.

Sitting on the bench, listening to the occasional chatter from the back stand, Lu Wenbin made a decision in his heart: In the future, he will conquer the Premier League no matter what.

Otherwise, no matter how many achievements and honors he has achieved, it will not be convincing.

Of course, not now!

With his current physique of 13/13, coming to the Premier League now is indeed over his own strength and looking ugly. Although it can't be said to be inactive, it will certainly not achieve the kind of stunning appearance in the Bundesliga last season.

Only when he becomes stronger in the future, he will be swept away as soon as he arrives. Especially in this Ewood Park stadium, he scored at least four or five goals, so that these fans can no longer make a sound.

In the end, Hoffenheim lost to Blackburn in a friendly 1-3.

Among them, there are reasons why Lu Wenbin and the entire Hoffenheim team are not used to the rough playing style of the Premier League, and there are also reasons why everyone in the team's cross-sea labor expedition is not in good condition.

Although it was a friendly match, because the opponent was a Premier League team in the same five major leagues, the gold content was not low, and the system finally gave the same single-game experience reward as the official German Cup match.

Therefore, although Lu Wenbin only scored one goal, he was rewarded with 2,000 experience points, which is more experience than scoring 6 goals in the last friendly match.

Lu Wenbin's experience has risen to 52012/100,000 at level 12.