Lu Wenbin thought he could see his coach and teammates when he arrived at the hotel, but in fact he couldn't.
Lu Wenbin arrived in Lebanon at noon. All the coaches and players of the national team were training at the training ground of a Lebanese Super League team.
On the way, the national team staff who picked him up at the airport told Lu Wenbin to stay in the hotel and rest to recover from the fatigue of the long journey, and then meet again after the coaches and players returned in the evening.
Lu Wenbin shook his head, indicating that he had no problem with his energy. He wanted to go back to the hotel, drop off his luggage, and then go to the training ground to meet his coach and teammates early and start training early.
The 20/20 physique is not only reflected in the abundant physical energy during games, but also in the fact that Lu Wenbin does not feel tired at all during long-distance flights.
In addition, it was Lu Wenbin's first time as a national team player, and he was a core player and captain at that. It was completely unfamiliar for him to cooperate with his teammates. So he wanted to meet the coach and teammates earlier and start training earlier.
Although he was disappointed with the Chinese national football team when he was a fan, now that he is a national player and the captain and core player of the team, attracting the whole country's attention, Lu Wenbin naturally has to strictly discipline himself and lead the national team to achieve good results so as not to disappoint the expectations of fans across the country.
When he arrived at the hotel and met the head coach of the national team, the head coach advised Lu Wenbin to rest for half a day. However, Lu Wenbin still insisted on going to the training ground to meet his teammates and started to participate in training.
Seeing that Lu Wenbin did not show any signs of fatigue and insisted on his own opinion, the team leader finally had to agree.
Lu Wenbin is not only the new core and captain of the national team, but also the hope of fans across the country. He is also being watched by national leaders. It can be said that he has become the most untouchable player in the national team before he even arrives.
Even the team leader did not dare to easily refute Lu Wenbin's reasonable opinions.
So, shortly after putting down his luggage at the hotel, Lu Wenbin left the hotel accompanied by the team leader and prepared to take a car to the training ground of the Lebanese Super League team Arnezemo.
When Lu Wenbin and the team leader came out of the hotel, they caused surprise among the reporters.
Lu Wenbin had just entered the hotel and came out again not long ago, and he was with the team leader. Where was he going
Could it be that Lu Wenbin had been on a plane for several hours and without even taking a break, he was going to the training ground to meet up with the national team coach and teammates
The shocked reporters rushed forward to interview Lu Wenbin.
Neither Lu Wenbin nor the team leader stayed for long. They answered reporters' questions while moving forward. Without saying a few words, they got in the car and headed for the training ground.
However, the reporters had already gotten the answers they wanted. In addition to being surprised and impressed, they also quickly sent the news back to China that Lu Wenbin had just arrived in Lebanon and couldn't wait to go to the training ground to see his teammates.
Naturally, Lu Wenbin's positive attitude has aroused praise from domestic fans.
At around 4 p.m. on November 9, Lu Wenbin met his national team head coach Gao Hongbo and other national team teammates Zheng Zhi, Yu Hai, Gao Lin, etc. at the training ground in Arnezemo.
Under the introduction of the team leader, Lu Wenbin first shook hands with head coach Gao Hongbo.
In China, the head coach of the national team is generally called "Coach", so Lu Wenbin also followed the trend and called Gao Hongbo "Coach Gao".
Gao Hongbo seemed very happy and shook Lu Wenbin's hand very hard. He expressed his great happiness about his joining the team and said that with the joining of Lu Wenbin, the national team will surely achieve better results.
In fact, Gao Hongbo took office amidst internal and external troubles of the Chinese national football team.
The Chinese Football Association has been caught up in internal turmoil because of its crackdown on gangs and gambling and has no money to hire foreign coaches. Gao Hongbo has just taken office, and this Asian Cup qualifier between Lebanon and China is his first official match in office. His annual salary is only 150,000 RMB now.
As a pure Chinese football player, although the annual salary offered by the Football Association was so low that it even seemed like hiring a temporary worker, Gao Hongbo still accepted it without hesitation.
Although he considered that being the head coach of the Chinese national football team could gild his reputation, what was more important was that he wanted to do something for Chinese football and lead the national football team out of Asia.
In order to allow the team to better focus on the game, he even went against public opinion and excluded many veteran international players from his national team roster, giving young players opportunities, making the team purer and avoiding struggles among the national team bosses in the locker room.
Of course, what is more important is to train and develop young players in advance for the 2014 World Cup Asian qualifiers.
The result of doing this naturally put him under tremendous pressure to achieve good results.
Fortunately, the team achieved good results in the warm-up matches and friendly matches after he took office, so his personnel system was not questioned too much.
However, even so, I still feel a little nervous because I haven’t been tested in a formal competition yet.
Lu Wenbin, who has scored numerous goals in European competitions, is naturally the spearhead that Gao Hongbo has long wanted to recruit into the national team.
However, on the issue of Lu Wenbin, Gao Hongbo did not get the support of the Football Association leaders, so he has not been able to achieve his wish.
It was not until now that the senior leaders spoke that Lu Wenbin was able to successfully join the national team. Gao Hongbo was naturally ecstatic, and once again went against all odds and handed the position of national team captain to Lu Wenbin!
He is a new coach and most of his players are new international players. Lu Wenbin is also a new member of the team.
There are basically no factions or locker room struggles. Gao Hongbo hopes that the extremely powerful Lu Wenbin can lead the national team to achieve better results as captain and also support his coaching career for the national football team.
Next, Gao Hongbo began to introduce the coaching staff members and his national team teammates to Lu Wenbin.
Most of the young players expressed their admiration and welcome to the new captain Lu Wenbin. Only a few older players were too embarrassed to do so and simply shook hands, but there was no resistance.
This made Gao Hongbo and the team leader, who were a little worried, feel much more relieved.
In addition to Lu Wenbin's fame and honor, his leadership aura also played a certain role here.
However, outsiders don’t know this. They just think that the European Golden Boot is indeed amazing. Even though he is only 19 years old, he can hold his own just after joining the national team. It is amazing.
This made the Chinese reporters and fans watching outside the stadium very happy.
The first meeting of the new captain Lu Wenbin went so smoothly, and he did not encounter any resistance from the team's veteran players. It seems that the Chinese team is relatively united this time, and good results are expected!
After introducing each other, Lu Wenbin, as the new captain, made a declaration as the new captain.
Lu Wenbin said that he would try his best to charge forward on the court and asked his teammates to cooperate and support him so as to create better results for the national team and make hundreds of millions of fans in the country proud of the national football team.
Next, Lu Wenbin joined the training.
Whether the arrival of the new core and the new captain can really bring Chinese football into a new era and make the national team the pride of Chinese fans depends on Lu Wenbin's performance in official competitions.