The last league game before the winter break brought Lu Wenbin a reward of 30,000 experience points for scoring 3 goals and 20,000 experience points for winning, for a total of 50,000 experience points.
Adding the 30,000 experience points gained in the last round against Frankfurt, Lu Wenbin's system experience points rose to level 17, 3.649 million/5 million.
Hoffenheim also maintained its top spot in the Bundesliga standings with 43 points from 14 wins, one draw and two losses in 17 league games in the first half of the season, leading second-placed Leverkusen by 8 points and won the 2009/2010 Bundesliga winter break championship.
Hoffenheim is likely to win the Bundesliga title this season.
Ranked first in the league, advanced to the quarterfinals of the German Cup, and won all the group matches in the Champions League to advance to the knockout stage. Hoffenheim continued its strong performance from last season. Some media and fans are already discussing whether Hoffenheim will win the treble.
They won the small treble last season. If they can win the big treble this season, they will definitely be the most awesome promoted team in history, even more awesome than Nottingham Forest!
Of course, the most popular player in Hoffenheim is always Lu Wenbin.
The total number of goals scored in 2009 was 94, which is absolutely jaw-dropping.
Lu Wenbin scored these 94 goals in 52 games, with an average of 1.8 goals per game, which is truly astonishing.
For others, scoring twice in a game is considered an outstanding performance, but for Lu Wenbin, scoring twice has become a standard, as easy as drinking boiled water.
After the game, media all over the world reported on Lu Wenbin's annual goal record of 94 goals. 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 20 to 30 goals a year, he is considered an excellent striker. If he scores 40 to 50 goals a year, he is considered an absolutely prolific top scorer. But Lu Wenbin scored 94 goals in a year. It is really unbelievable!
The endless reports and heated discussions in the media have affected the popularity of FIFA's upcoming World Footballer of the Year awards ceremony. Some people even said that the World Footballer of the Year should go to Lu Wenbin instead of Messi.
Of course, this is unrealistic.
Not to mention that the voting for the World Footballer of the Year has already ended, Lu Wenbin's annual total goal record can no longer add points for him.
Moreover, the voters for the World Footballer of the Year are mainly the national team coaches and captains. Lu Wenbin has only participated in two national team games in total, and those were in competitions such as the Asian Cup qualifiers. He has no presence in the world football at all.
The Chinese team is also a rookie in the map of national football teams in the world, which will definitely affect Lu Wenbin's evaluation in their minds.
Moreover, in the 2009 Club World Cup final which just ended two days ago, Messi scored a goal and led Barcelona to a 2-1 victory over Argentina's Estudiantes de La Plata, the champion of the Copa Libertadores, to win the championship, completing the feat of winning five titles in 2009.
If Barcelona had not been defeated by Hoffenheim led by Lu Wenbin in the European Super Cup, they would have even been able to complete the feat of winning six championships in 2009.
Even so, the five-time champion deserves the respect and admiration of the whole world.
Therefore, this year's World Footballer of the Year award will definitely go to Messi, not Lu Wenbin, just like the Ballon d'Or.
Of course, regardless of whether he won first place or not, Lu Wenbin had to attend the award ceremony because he was one of the final five people.
After the last round of the league before the winter break, Hoffenheim Club held a Christmas dinner before the holiday on December 20.
During the dinner, General Manager Rothhaus found Lu Wenbin and explored the possibility of contract renewal.
Speaking of this, Rothaus was really depressed.
It can be said that Lu Wenbin's growth rate is faster than his brain can imagine.
When renewing the contract in the summer, Rothaus and owner Hopp both thought that the 100 million euro penalty clause was high enough, and that no crazy owner of any club would use 100 million euros to buy a player.
Who would have thought that just after renewing the contract with Lu Wenbin, Ronaldo dropped the bombshell of transferring to Real Madrid for 96 million euros.
Now that half a season has passed, comparing it with Ronaldo's performance and looking at Lu Wenbin's scoring goals on all fronts and a total of 94 goals for the year, 100 million euros may not scare anyone anymore.
Although there is no Champions League or Ballon d'Or, there might be a team that is willing to 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 the Champions League this season, or even the treble
If Lu Wenbin leads Hoffenheim to win the treble again, coupled with his dazzling personal statistics, then next year's Ballon d'Or is a foregone conclusion!
By then, the penalty of 100 million euros will really not be expensive.
Lu Wenbin plays a very important role in Hoffenheim's lineup. It can be said that he has become a player that transcends the collective.
Whether they admit it or not, it is a fact that Hoffenheim's achievements are mostly supported by Lu Wenbin.
Therefore, even though the contract had only been renewed for half a year, Rothaus wanted to discuss contract renewal with Lu Wenbin again, with the main purpose of increasing the penalty for breach of contract.
But Lu Wenbin didn't want to.
With the football championship system, Lu Wenbin's strength will only get stronger and stronger, and he will never lack championship honors wherever he goes.
In this case, Lu Wenbin will pay more attention to his global influence and income.
It is certain that the Bundesliga's influence is not as great as that of the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A, and Hoffenheim is unlikely to offer him an annual salary of over 10 million after tax similar to that of Real Madrid to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin changed the subject and asked Rothaus to go find Mendes, and Rothaus 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 hosted by FIFA.
Although the results were not announced until the awards ceremony, the final result did not surprise most people: Messi ranked first and won the 2009 World Footballer of the Year.
Messi achieved the feat of winning the European Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year in the same year.
Lu Wenbin still ranked second, and Ronaldo still ranked third. Moreover, Lu Wenbin's votes were a bit behind Messi.
The national team's poor performance obviously affected voters' evaluation of Lu Wenbin.
Of course, because Lu Wenbin just completed a hat trick in the last round of the league, raising the annual total goal record to 94 goals.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin is no less popular than Messi, and he received a lot of interviews from reporters after the award ceremony.
After the award ceremony, Lu Wenbin and his partner 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, if Hoffenheim wanted to renew his contract with him, the Bundesliga's top annual salary alone would not be enough. Unless Hoffenheim fired the world's top annual salary that exceeded that of Ronaldo and Messi, there would be no renewal.
In terms of commercial endorsements, Lu Wenbin's performance of being the top scorer in the Champions League and breaking Van Nistelrooy's record, with a total of 94 goals in the year, naturally made him more and more attractive to advertisers.
However, Lu Wenbin's value is also increasing. Not only is the endorsement price high, but also the choice of famous brands can bring Lu Wenbin extra exposure.
Small brands no longer even have the qualifications to negotiate.
Finally, with the assistance of Mendes, Lu Wenbin signed three major European brands and completed the commercials.
Then, Lu Wenbin and Kate returned to Meitan, Guizhou, China before the New Year's Day and spent the New Year with their parents at home.
With this kind of job, and playing football in Europe, I can’t spend the Lunar New Year at home. I can only make up for it by spending the Gregorian New Year at home.
In Meitan, Kate, a beautiful, sexy foreign beauty who can speak Chinese, earned face for Lu Wenbin's parents among their relatives and colleagues.
However, I couldn't stay for too long.
Because the Chinese national team's game is about to begin.
The other players had already started training, so only Lu Wenbin received this special treatment and did not report until the game was about to start.
On January 3, 2010, Lu Wenbin, his parents and Kate boarded a plane to Hangzhou.
(asking for monthly ticket)