After a successful start in the first game of the new year, Mourinho finally kept his promise and announced in the locker room that everyone would have a day off, which made the Real Madrid players breathe a sigh of relief.
After a day of rest on January 4, training resumed on January 5.
On the evening of January 7, Real Madrid once again faced a game at home: in the 18th round of La Liga, Real Madrid faced Granada at home.
After a day's rest and two days of recovery training, Real Madrid faced the lower-ranked team Granada in this game and exploded with powerful attacking power.
90 minutes later, the score on the big screen was 6-0, and Real Madrid once again defeated their opponents by a large margin.
Lu Wenbin scored a hat-trick, Ronaldo scored twice, and the last goal was scored by Ramos with a header from a corner kick.
After the game, they rested for a day, and then Lu Wenbin, coach Mourinho, teammates Cristiano Ronaldo, Alonso, Ramos and others flew to Zurich, Switzerland with their families to attend the FIFA year-end awards ceremony.
On the evening of January 9, 2012, local time, the FIFA 2011 year-end awards ceremony was held grandly at the Zurich Opera House.
Hundreds of football superstars, legends, celebrity guests and their families from all over the world gathered together to witness the major awards selected by FIFA.
Especially the FIFA Ballon d'Or, which is undoubtedly the most authoritative award after the merger of the European Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year.
Although everyone knows that the winner is undoubtedly Lu Wenbin, the award has not yet been given out and there is always anticipation.
Hosted by Murray and guest Gullit, the FIFA year-end awards ceremony officially began.
The first award was given out for the best team of 2011, and the presenter was the football king Pele.
Goalkeeper Casillas, defenders Alves, Pique, Ramos, Vidic, midfielders Sneijder, Xavi, Alonso, forwards Ronaldo, Lu Wenbin, Messi.
When handing the trophy to Lu Wenbin, Pele not only shook hands with Lu Wenbin, but also gave him a big hug and said some words of encouragement.
His words showed high expectations for Lu Wenbin's future achievements.
The FIFA President's Award, Best Women's Football Coach Award and Best Men's Football Coach Award were then presented.
Mourinho defeated Ferguson and Guardiola to win the best men's football coach award. Last season, he led Inter Milan to win the treble and was well-deserved as the best coach.
The Fair Play Award was then presented, followed by the more popular Puskas (Goal of the Year) Award.
The three finalists for the 2011 Puskas Award are Manchester United striker Rooney's amazing overhead kick against Manchester City, Brazilian genius Neymar's long-distance run against Flamengo, and Lu Wenbin's S-shaped free kick against Kuwait in the Asian Cup on January 8, 2011.
That S-shaped free kick was called a magical goal and was rated as the best goal of 2011 by many commentators at the time, even though the new year of 2011 had just begun.
Sure enough, Lu Wenbin's free kick has now entered the final three candidates for the Puskas Award, and there is a strong chance of winning the award.
After three wonderful goals were played on the big screen, the award presenter, Mexican legendary star Sanchez, announced the final winner: "The final winner of the 2011 Puskas Award: Lu!"
Amid the applause of all the players and guests, Lu Wenbin went on stage to receive the trophy for the best goal of the year and gave a brief speech.
Then, at the end, the all-important awards for the best male and female athletes were presented.
The first award presented was for the Best Female Football Player of the Year. The winner was Japanese female football player Homare Sawa, who defeated Brazilian female football superstar Marta and American female football player Wambach to win this honor because in the 2011 Women's World Cup, Homare Sawa led the Japanese women's football team to win the Women's World Cup championship.
This was the first World Cup title won by an Asian country. Although it was a women's football team, it shocked the world.
Although Lu Wenbin has won numerous personal honors and world records for Chinese football and won respect from all over the world.
But a Women's World Cup championship trophy still attracted the admiration of countless domestic football fans.
In the 1999 Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team, known as the Steel Roses, also made it to the final of the Women's World Cup, facing the United States.
However, that time the United States used various tricks, such as the long distances between the various competition venues and the more than 20,000 kilometers of round trip, etc., which made the Chinese women's football girls exhausted. In the end, they lost to the United States on penalties, which became the peak of the Chinese women's football team.
Although they shouted various slogans about regrouping and returning to the top, they were never able to reproduce the glory of being the runner-up in 1999.
On the contrary, after the Japanese men's football team continued to advance to the World Cup finals, the women's football team also won the World Cup championship, which surprised and envied Chinese fans for a long time.
As a core figure of the championship team, Homare Sawa deserves the FIFA Women's Football Player of the Year award.
This award-winning person had some different feelings towards Lu Wenbin.
Although he can win the Ballon d'Or with his overwhelming personal data, he does not have the confidence to win the Ballon d'Or with the weight of the World Cup championship.
Is it really true that Chinese football has no chance of winning a World Cup title
With the help of the system, Lu Wenbin can improve several abilities, such as creativity, defensive ability, and free kick technique.
If you complete the system task of winning the triple crown in the five major leagues, you can also get a reward with the maximum on-the-spot status to use on your teammates.
By then, will it be possible for the Chinese team to win a World Cup title under his leadership
In the past, Lu Wenbin didn’t believe that Chinese football could win the championship. Even after he was possessed by the system, he rarely thought about it.
But now, seeing that the Japanese women's football team won the World Cup and the Japanese women's football players won the award for the best female athlete of the year, a weed in Lu Wenbin's heart grew uncontrollably.
With the help of the system, the club's competitions are absolutely stress-free.
The Triple Crown honor, which is regarded as the supreme honor by others, is like cabbage in Lu Wenbin’s system task, and he must win it in every league.
Perhaps, only the World Cup journey, which is described as hellish for the Chinese team, is the arena where Lu Wenbin will fight hard.
Regardless of whether he can eventually help the Chinese team win the World Cup, Lu Wenbin wants to work towards that goal.
Amid Lu Wenbin's emotion, Sawa Homare gave an excited speech, thanking her motherland, teammates, fans and others.
Then, the most important, most anticipated and, of course, the most unsuspenseful outcome of the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or is tonight.
The presenter of the Golden Ball Award is the alien Ronaldo, who has won the World Footballer of the Year three times.
The final three players are Lu Wenbin, Messi and Ronaldo.
Of course, with last season's treble at Inter Milan, ten goals in a single game, 144 goals in the year, five goals in eight minutes, the Asian Cup championship and other performances, there was no suspense that Lu Wenbin would become the final winner.
Ronaldo pulled out a card with the winner's name from the envelope and smiled as he read: "2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or winner: Lu!"
Amidst thunderous applause from countless fans who were watching the live broadcast at the scene and on TV, Lu Wenbin won the FIFA Golden Ball Award for the second consecutive year.
Lu Wenbin has become one of the few players to win the Ballon d'Or for two consecutive years.
The only person ahead of Lu Wenbin was Platini, who won the Ballon d'Or for three consecutive years from 1983 to 1985.
If Lu wins another Ballon d'Or next year, he will tie Platini's record of three consecutive wins. If he wins another one the year after, Lu will surpass Platini and become the only person to win four consecutive Ballon d'Ors.
There are still countless records waiting for Lu Wenbin.