After the friendly match with Guizhou Zhicheng, Real Madrid's global commercial training tour finally ended and they returned to Spain to prepare for the new season.
As for Wu Sihuo, he naturally has Lu Wenbin's assistants, lawyers and others to help him.
After returning to Spain, Real Madrid trained well at the Valdebebas base for a few days.
Then, before other teams started their games, Real Madrid faced Barcelona in the 2011 Spanish Super Cup.
Last season, although Real Madrid continued to achieve nothing in the league and the Champions League, it at least won a King's Cup and qualified for the Spanish Super Cup.
Their opponent is last season's La Liga champion Barcelona.
This is a Spanish national derby on the Super Cup stage, and it is also Lu Wenbin's first real official game representing Real Madrid.
Participating in such a hot national derby right after arriving at Real Madrid was a test for both Lu Wenbin and Mourinho.
Moreover, the Spanish Super Cup is a two-round match, and Real Madrid will play at home first and then away, which is an unfavorable schedule.
However, with the gathering of three Ballon d'Or winners, especially Lu Wenbin, the current number one football player who is sure to win the championship whenever he participates in a competition, Real Madrid fans have gained confidence.
Some fans even shouted before the first leg of the game started that Real Madrid would definitely beat Barcelona in the aggregate score of the two legs in the unfavorable schedule of playing at home first and away later, and lift the Spanish Super Cup trophy in front of all Barcelona fans at Barcelona's home stadium, Camp Nou.
Barcelona naturally fought back immediately and mocked Real Madrid, saying that even if Real Madrid had many superstars, it would be useless without its own youth training team.
The international team will not play loyally for Real Madrid, and the global training during the pre-season preparation period has exhausted the energy of all Real Madrid players.
Not to mention three Ballon d'Or winners, even if Real Madrid had all 11 Ballon d'Or winners in the starting lineup, they would still lose to Barcelona.
Such statements were simply an insult to the professional ethics of Real Madrid's coaches and players, and naturally met with counterattacks from top to bottom in Real Madrid.
Mourinho claims that one of his goals in coming to Real Madrid was to crush Barcelona every season.
From Chelsea to Inter Milan, Mourinho has been fighting with Barcelona. Now he has gone straight to La Liga, and every season he has at least two national derbies in La Liga.
There are at least four games this season, and the new season starts with two national derbies in the Super Cup.
Mourinho naturally wants to defeat Barcelona by a large margin.
New member Lu Wenbin also claimed in an interview with reporters that although he is not a youth player of Real Madrid, he will still take Real Madrid's victory as his responsibility, because this is his job as a professional player, just like he did in Hoffenheim and Inter Milan.
No matter how Barcelona struggles, he is sure to win this year's Spanish Super Cup.
Mourinho and Lu Wenbin's outrageous remarks naturally attracted a counterattack from Barcelona.
However, there is still something to be said about Mourinho, and one can mock his former status as an assistant coach of Barcelona.
But there is nothing to say about Lu Wenbin.
Lu Wenbin's great success is so great that even his enemies cannot lie to him. They can only say: "No matter how successful you are, you have to line up to welcome Barcelona in the first game of the new season and salute the champion Barcelona!"
The quarrel between the two sides continued until the start of the game, and the atmosphere was still full of tension.
August 14, the evening of the match day, the match was approaching.
According to the tradition of the Spanish League, when a team wins the league championship, the opponent of the next game must line up to welcome and pay tribute to the championship team during the entrance ceremony before the game.
Barcelona secured last season's La Liga title in the final league game of the season.
Therefore, according to tradition, the opponents of the first official match of the new season, that is, the Spanish Super Cup, must line up to welcome Barcelona during the entrance ceremony and pay tribute to the champions Barcelona.
This tradition runs through the history of Spanish football, and few teams refuse to follow it, because it is not only disrespectful to the champion, but also loses their own demeanor and appears to be unable to accept defeat.
But Mourinho is not an ordinary person.
When the stadium staff came to the locker room to inform the team and asked everyone to line up at the side of the field to welcome Barcelona, Mourinho directly drove the staff out, closed the door, turned around and said to all the Real Madrid players in the locker room with wide eyes and expressions of disbelief:
"What's so great about a league championship? From today on, La Liga is the world of Real Madrid under the command of me, Jose Mourinho! From today on, only others will pay tribute to Real Madrid, and we will not pay tribute to others!"
The entire locker room was silent. Even Lu Wenbin, an old subordinate who had followed Lu Wenbin for a year, did not expect that Mourinho would do such a thing just after arriving in Spain and before playing a formal game, openly destroying the entire tradition and unspoken rules of Spanish football.
He is indeed a madman, the most unique one. Perhaps only he can do such a thing.
Although no one spoke, Lu Wenbin could feel that the spirit of the entire team was different.
In the past few seasons, Real Madrid was indeed suppressed by Barcelona, which made the players, even a proud person like Ronaldo, somewhat demoralized.
But now, when Mourinho openly challenged the Spanish football tradition and refused to lead the team to pay tribute to the arch-rival Barcelona, all Real Madrid players became spirited and murderous.
Before the first official game of the new season started, Mourinho had already convinced almost all the players of Real Madrid.
Even the few players who were dissatisfied with not getting a starting position could not make any noise at this time, and no one dared to provoke Mourinho easily.
At this time, the reporters and fans outside were becoming more and more confused as the game time got closer.
Since they are lining up to pay tribute to Barcelona, Real Madrid must have come out and lined up in advance. Why haven't they come out yet
Did Real Madrid refuse to line up to pay tribute to last season's La Liga champions Barcelona
Amid the discussions among the audience, Real Madrid fans were excited, Barcelona fans were outraged, and the eyes of the reporters were burning with the fire of gossip.
Sure enough, as the game was approaching, Real Madrid players and Barcelona players walked out of the locker room at almost the same time and met in the player tunnel.
Seeing that Real Madrid only came out at this time instead of lining up on the sidelines to welcome them, the Barcelona players' faces suddenly changed, and fire flashed in their eyes.
Even though we were sworn enemies in the past, when our opponents won the championship, we never did what Real Madrid did today.
Real Madrid's actions made Barcelona players furious before the game even started.
Today's game is destined not to be peaceful!