As the final approaches, more and more Inter Milan and Hoffenheim fans gather in Madrid.
Everyone is looking forward to the final day, and the Champions League atmosphere in Madrid is getting stronger and stronger.
On May 23, the match day, the game was held at night, but fans continued to gather at the Bernabeu Stadium since the morning.
The weather was sunny on the day of the final, with the temperature around 25 degrees, a little cool in the morning and a little warm in the afternoon and evening.
Such weather is great news for fans watching the game.
The game had long since begun, but fans of both teams had already been gathering in the square outside the Bernabeu Stadium, eating snacks, drinking beer, and talking loudly about everything related to the two teams.
In the evening, hundreds of thousands of fans gathered in the square outside the Bernabeu Stadium.
In addition to local Madrid citizens, there are also tens of thousands of fans from Inter Milan and Hoffenheim who have come from Germany, Italy and other countries. The Bernabeu Stadium is destined to be unable to accommodate them, and many people will definitely not be able to enter.
This is certainly unavoidable for the Champions League final.
Two hours before the final, the stadium opened for ticket checking. Fans with tickets began to check in and enter, while those without tickets could only wander around outside the square.
At this time, even scalpers don't have many tickets left. Even if there are any, they are ridiculously expensive and out of reach for ordinary fans.
With one hour left before the final, Real Madrid's home stadium, the Bernabeu, which can accommodate more than 70,000 fans, was almost full.
Except for a very small number of fans who were delayed due to other matters, everyone else had already entered the stadium early and was ready to watch the Champions League final.
Players from Inter Milan and Hoffenheim also arrived at the stadium one after another, changed into training clothes and started warming up before the game.
When the players of both teams entered the stadium for pre-match warm-ups, they received thunderous cheers from the fans.
Judging from the attire of the fans at the scene, there are a lot more fans supporting Inter Milan than Hoffenheim, and the appeal of the old giants is still very strong.
However, in terms of individual star popularity, Lu Wenbin is the only one who steals the show. Inter Milan's Zanetti, Sneijder, Eto'o and others are not as popular as Lu Wenbin.
Among the more than 70,000 fans in the stadium, at least 20,000 were wearing jerseys with Lu Wenbin’s name printed on them.
The jerseys are not limited to Hoffenheim's jerseys, but the name on the ball is printed with Lu Wenbin's name.
These people include not only German fans of Hoffenheim, but also fans from China, local Chinese in Spain, local citizens, and personal fans of Lu Wenbin who traveled thousands of miles from other countries to watch the game at the Bernabeu.
Even though there is no Champions League yet, Lu Wenbin's amazing performance in the Bundesliga, UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League in the past two seasons has made him a well-deserved top star.
This Champions League final was seen by countless media and fans as Lu Wenbin's battle to the top.
Without the Champions League trophy, it is still questionable whether Lu Wenbin can win this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or.
But as long as Lu Wenbin leads Hoffenheim to defeat Inter Milan and win the Champions League, coupled with his abnormal personal data, the first FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 after the merger of the European Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Footballer of the Year will undoubtedly go to Lu Wenbin.
The Golden Ball Award is the pinnacle of personal honor for professional football players.
Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, C Ronaldo, Messi, etc., their popularity and treatment after winning the Ballon d'Or are incomparable to before they won the Ballon d'Or.
Winning the Ballon d'Or means that he was the best player of the year and the number one player in the world football that year, and he can become one of the world's top football superstars with this award.
Half an hour before the start of the game, the Bernabeu Stadium, the host of the final, held a 20-minute cultural performance with a strong Spanish flavor.
However, the audience basically looked bored, and not many people cared about the organizer's good efforts.
Even Real Madrid's own fans looked bored.
If one of the teams in the final was their own team, they might have cheered for their own sake. But now the two teams in the final have nothing to do with them, so what’s the point of having a good artistic performance
The right thing to do is to start the game as soon as possible.
Amid the fans' long calls, the cultural performance finally ended, and Hoffenheim and Inter Milan lined up to enter the stadium under the leadership of the referee team.
When the players came out, the Champions League trophy at the exit of the player tunnel rose from a black box and was displayed on the box, causing warm cheers from the fans in the stadium.
Players from both teams were excited as they passed by the trophy.
Inter Milan has not won the Champions League trophy for nearly half a century, and Hoffenheim is playing in the Champions League final for the first time in the club's history.
There are very few players from these two teams who have won the Champions League trophy, only a few such as Eto'o.
Therefore, everyone seemed a little excited.
But relatively speaking, Inter Milan's players are more stable. After all, they are an old and powerful team, and many of the players in this team are very old.
Eto'o is 29 years old, Cambiasso is 30 years old, Lucio is 32 years old, and captain Zanetti is 37 years old.
Although these veterans may not be as physically fit as Hoffenheim's young players, they are undoubtedly much better in experience and self-control than Hoffenheim's players.
On the Hoffenheim side, both Lu Wenbin and other teammates had their adrenaline rushing. They either had excited smiles on their faces or their muscles were tense as if they were going to a battle.
No matter how much pre-match preparation and psychological adjustment they make, when these young people step onto the stage of the Champions League final, they will inevitably experience drastic psychological fluctuations.
This is a test that a young team must go through.
Enter the stadium, line up, and the stadium broadcast plays the Champions League theme song.
Then, the players from both sides shook hands and changed sides, and Hoffenheim got the right to kick off.
At 20:45 on the evening of May 23rd local time, at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, with the referee's whistle and the cheers of more than 70,000 fans in the stadium, the final of the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League officially began.
In this game, Inter Milan fielded a 4231 formation, with goalkeeper No. 12 Cesar, right back No. 13 Maicon, central defenders No. 6 Lucio and No. 25 Samuel, left back No. 26 Zivu, defensive midfielder No. 4 captain Zanetti and No. 19 Cambiasso, right midfielder No. 5 Stankovic, left midfielder No. 11 Muntari, attacking midfielder No. 10 Sneijder, and the lone striker was No. 9 striker Eto'o, known as the cheetah.
Hoffenheim still used their usual 433 formation, with goalkeeper No. 27 Ozcan, right back No. 2 Beck, central defenders No. 14 Jancker and No. 24 Nelson, left back No. 26 Ibertsberg, defensive midfielder No. 21 Gustavo, left midfielder No. 10 Eduardo, right midfielder No. 23 Salihovic, center forward No. 19 Ibisevic, right winger No. 29 Demba Ba, and left winger No. 9 Lu Wenbin.
The 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League final has officially begun. (Seeking monthly tickets)