After the away game with Hamburg, while the media was discussing Lu Wenbin's consecutive goals and total number of goals for the year, Lu Wenbin, Kate, and the club's general manager Rothaus boarded a plane to France.
They are going to attend this year's European Golden Ball Awards ceremony.
At 10 a.m. on December 6th, local time in France, the 2009 European Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in the France 1 TV program recording studio.
This was destined to be an award ceremony for accompanying the prince in his studies. Lu Wenbin actually didn't want to come, but it would be too ungraceful to do so.
Not only Lu Wenbin will be there, but third place winner Cristiano Ronaldo will also be there to watch Messi receive the award.
When he arrived at the TV station and was surrounded by reporters for interviews, Lu Wenbin pretended to be very happy and said that he was happy to get the second place vote, and congratulated Messi on winning the Golden Ball Award, etc.
Lu Wenbin watched a large number of videos, interviews and pictures prepared by the program team for Messi, and personally witnessed the whole process of Messi receiving the Golden Ball from the editor-in-chief of "France Football". The flashing lights of the reporters on the scene almost drowned out the recording room.
In fact, Lu Wenbin himself also wants the Golden Ball...
Finally, Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo went on stage to take a photo with Messi and let the reporters take pictures.
In fact, both Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo were eager for the award ceremony to end soon.
The award ceremony lasted for more than an hour and finally ended as planned. Lu Wenbin was finally able to fly back to Germany with his girlfriend and the club's general manager.
However, flying back to Germany does not mean that Lu Wenbin can get rid of Messi's name.
The European Golden Ball award ceremony was held on December 6th, and on December 7th FIFA announced the final five-man list for the 2009 World Footballer of the Year.
The final five players on the 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year list are Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Xavi and Lu Wenbin.
However, this time the ranking was not announced directly like the Golden Globe Awards, only the final five-man list was announced.
Who is first, second, and third? We will only know the results at the award ceremony.
But if you think about it, you will know that Messi will definitely be the first, and Lu Wenbin will have to be a spectator again.
This feeling made Lu Wenbin very unhappy.
So, in the sixth round of the Champions League group stage on December 9, Hoffenheim's opponent Uniria became the target of Lu Wenbin's venting.
After the first five rounds of group matches, Uniria ranked second in Group G, ahead of Sevilla, and has a chance to qualify from the group.
If Uniria can beat Hoffenheim away in the last round, then no matter how Sevilla and Glasgow Rangers play, Uniria will advance to the round of 16 as the second place in Group G.
For Hoffenheim, it would be in Hoffenheim's interest if they could play a tacit game and eliminate Sevilla, which is also in the top five leagues, after having already qualified and secured first place in the group.
Because no one can tell whether Sevilla, as a team from the top five leagues, will have a big outbreak after entering the knockout stage, or whether they will meet Hoffenheim again in the knockout stage and cause trouble for Hoffenheim.
Therefore, it is in Hoffenheim's interest to allow Uniria of the Romanian League to qualify in the group stage and for Sevilla to only get third place in the Europa League.
What's more, for Hoffenheim, which is fighting on three fronts, sending substitute players into the last insignificant Champions League group match and giving the main players a rest is a completely normal adjustment and no one can say anything about it.
Ralph did just that.
Except for Lu Wenbin, Ralph replaced the entire team's main lineup.
The reason for not replacing Lu Wenbin is, on the one hand, his abundant physical fitness shown in training, and on the other hand, Lu Wenbin has scored in five consecutive Champions League group matches.
If Lu Wenbin scores again in this game, he will create an unprecedented record: scoring in six consecutive Champions League group matches.
This is an achievement that has never been achieved by anyone before and has no prior connections.
At the same time, Lu Wenbin's previous Champions League goals have reached 11. If he scores one more goal in this group match, it will reach 12, tying Van Nistelrooy's single-season goal record of 12 goals after the Champions League reform.
If he scores two goals, Lu Wenbin will break Van Nistelrooy's record and become the new record holder.
Therefore, when Lu Wenbin proposed that he should not be rotated but continue to start, Ralph agreed.
At 20:45 on the evening of December 9, with the referee's whistle, the last round of the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League Group G match between Hoffenheim and Uniria at home officially began.
The all-substitute lineup does have a gap in strength compared to the main lineup, and the team's coordination is not good.
In the 8th minute, Lu Wenbin got the ball in the frontcourt and was ready to make a two-pass wall pass with center forward Tagoi before breaking into the penalty area and shooting.
As a result, Tagoi's pass did not match Lu Wenbin's running position, and the ball fell behind Lu Wenbin and was cleared and kicked out of the sideline by the opposing player.
Tagoi made an apologetic gesture to Lu Wenbin, and Lu Wenbin could only wave his hand to indicate that it was okay.
The game continues.
Fortunately, Uniria did not expect Sevilla to lose to Glasgow Rangers in this round of the group stage.
Therefore, they must attack and try to win the game themselves, regardless of how Sevilla performs.
It just so happened that Hoffenheim sent out an almost entirely substitute lineup, which gave Uniria hope of winning, so they boldly pressed forward and attacked.
However, their aggressive attack gave Lu Wenbin more space in the frontcourt.
Lu Wenbin's current speed of 18/20 is not just for show.
So, in the 25th minute of the first half, Uniria had not yet scored a goal, but Hoffenheim scored the first goal.
The goal was scored by Lu Wenbin.
In the 25th minute, he received a pass from his teammate and started a counterattack. He used his speed to dribble past Uniria's defender, and then faced the goalkeeper in the penalty area and shot into the empty goal, giving Hoffenheim a 1-0 lead.
When they saw Lu Wenbin pick the ball into the empty goal, all the fans at the home stadium cheered, and all the commentators in the commentary booth also screamed at the top of their lungs:
“Toooooooooooooooooooooooor…”
"The ball goes in, the ball goes in! Lu scored!"
"No one has ever done it before. He completed the miracle of scoring in all six group matches in the 2009/2010 Champions League group stage!"
"With 12 goals in 6 Champions League group matches, Lu Wenbin tied Van Nistelrooy's single-season Champions League record of 12 goals after the Champions League reform, and became the first super shooter in history to score in every Champions League group match!"
"Shocking, miraculous, incredible! Scoring in all six Champions League games, a total of 12 goals, an average of two goals per game. Lu Wenbin was born for the Champions League!"