After the second wedding in Dettford, the transfer matters were handed over to Mendes and his assistants, and Lu Wenbin and Kate flew to Brazil to prepare for the 2013 Confederations Cup.
In fact, the Chinese men's national football team had already arrived in Brazil to start pre-match adaptive training. Only Lu Wenbin was delayed because of his marriage, so he arrived late and did not report until the game was about to start.
Strictly speaking, this is also a phenomenon of being a big shot and should be criticized.
However, since Lu Wenbin was getting married, not for other trivial matters, no one would say much about it.
Moreover, before Lu Wenbin, apart from a small number of overseas Chinese, there were hardly any visitors to the Chinese team's training base, and there were also very few media reporters.
When Lu Wenbin arrived, the number of Brazilian fans and foreign media reporters outside the training ground suddenly increased. Every day, hundreds or even thousands of people gathered outside the training base to watch the Chinese team's training or ask Lu Wenbin for an autograph.
Even fans in the football kingdom of Brazil were conquered by Lu Wenbin's football skills, which shows how unique Lu Wenbin is.
In an interview with reporters, Lu Wenbin modestly declared that the Chinese team came to learn and accumulate experience in participating in world competitions and had no intention of winning the championship.
His record of winning every time he participates in a competition will definitely stop at this Confederations Cup.
Lu Wenbin's assertion caused laughter among the reporters, and after it was made public, it also made the fans feel the humility of the Chinese people.
No matter how strong Lu Wenbin is, football is a team sport after all, and it ultimately requires 11 people to compete.
At the Confederations Cup, no one believed that the Chinese team could win the championship, no matter how perverted Lu Wenbin was.
Lu Wenbin himself didn't believe it.
He just hopes that his teammates can give him more strength, win one or two games, and qualify from the group stage, which would be the biggest success.
After arriving in Brazil to join the Chinese training team, Lu Wenbin also received systematic tasks regarding the Confederations Cup.
The mission of the Confederations Cup is even more different from that of the Olympics. There are even rewards for every step forward, and they are layered and the rewards are huge.
National team competitions are increasingly becoming the most important way for Lu Wenbin to gain experience and skill points: the proportion of national team competition rewards in the system is really too large.
Perhaps, the creators of the system are future Chinese fans
This is an unsolved mystery.
Mission 41: First international win
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to its first victory in the 2013 Confederations Cup, and achieve the first victory of the Chinese men's national football team in an international competition.
Reward: 1 million experience points + 10 skill points
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Mission 42: Qualify for the group stage
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to advance to the semi-finals of the 2013 Confederations Cup.
Reward: 2 million experience points + 20 skill points
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Mission 43: Advance to the Finals
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to victory in the 2013 Confederations Cup semi-finals and advance to the finals.
Reward: 5 million experience points + 50 skill points
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Mission 44: Confederations Cup Champion
Requirements: Lead the Chinese team to win the 2013 Confederations Cup.
Reward: 10 million experience points + 100 skill points
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Looking at these rewards, Lu Wenbin was drooling.
However, he knew that the possibility of the Chinese team winning the championship was almost zero.
However, we must fight for our first international win and qualifying for the group stage.
If he could advance to the finals, he could even raise his free kick special skill to the grandmaster level, and increase the goalkeeper's attributes to more than ten points.
As the competition approaches, the media reports more and more on the Confederations Cup, and the eyes of fans around the world are focused on Brazil.
The Confederations Cup attracts much more attention than the Olympic football matches.
Olympic football itself is for youth teams under U23, and its attention is also diverted away by other events. It cannot compare to the Confederations Cup in terms of competitiveness or attention.
As a preview of the World Cup the following year, the Confederations Cup has received increasing attention from the media and fans.
On June 16, the 2013 Brazil Confederations Cup officially kicked off with the opening match between Brazil and Tahiti at the Gacharín National Stadium in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
After 90 minutes, the host Brazil team defeated Tahiti 3-0 and easily got off to a good start.
Afterwards, the other six teams in the two groups began to fight against each other.
Mexico lost 1-2 to Italy, and Spain beat Uruguay 2-1.
In the last group match, it was the Chinese team's turn to play.
On the evening of June 17, in Belo Horizonte, the fourth largest city in Brazil, at the Mineirão Stadium, the second largest stadium in Brazil (second only to Maracanã Stadium), the second group match of the first round of Group B between China and Nigeria is about to begin.
The game attracted more than 60,000 fans to watch the game on site, filling up more than 60,000 seats.
Among them, nearly half are Chinese fans or overseas Chinese, which shows how many Chinese people there are.
Everyone held banners, shouted slogans, and sang songs, preparing for the first international match of the Chinese men's national football team.
There are only a few thousand Nigerian fans, and the rest are local citizens of Belo Horizonte.
It’s not that Nigeria has a small population, but that their economic conditions are not as good as those of rapidly developing China.
Even though the country has a population of over 100 million and a large number of football fans, there are not many Nigerian fans who are rich enough to travel across the ocean to Brazil to cheer for the national team.
As countless fans at the scene and in front of the TV waited eagerly, the time came to 7 p.m.
With the referee's whistle, the second match of the first round of Group B of the 2013 Confederations Cup between China and Nigeria officially began.
The Chinese team naturally used the usual 4231 defensive counterattack, while Nigeria relied on the good physical fitness of their black people to play a 433 attacking formation and launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team at the beginning of the game.
There is no way not to attack.
Lu Wenbin from the Chinese team is really abnormal.
Even if Nigeria defends with all their might, it is unlikely that they will not concede a goal.
Long shots, penalty kicks, follow-up shots, free kicks, corner kicks, headers, etc. Lu Wenbin has so many ways to score goals and his ability is so strong.
It is almost impossible for Lu Wenbin to not score a goal in a game.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin's opponents are faced with a situation where they must score a goal, and this is the helplessness of Lu Wenbin's opponents.
Of course, as the African champions, Nigeria has no reason to fear the Chinese team except Lu Wenbin.
Therefore, Nigeria's tactics for this game were relatively simple: attack fiercely throughout the game and compete with Lu Wenbin in the number of goals.
The Nigerian players' physique, physical fitness, speed, etc. were indeed far ahead of the other Chinese players except Lu Wenbin, making it difficult for the Chinese team to cope. Even if Lu Wenbin returned to defense to help, it was useless.
Just 5 minutes into the game, Nigerian winger Mba made a cross from the bottom line, and center forward Juha squeezed past Wang Qiang and Zhao Peng in the penalty area and got the first head on the ball.
If the angle had not been slightly right, and Zeng Cheng had subconsciously blocked the ball with a wave of his hand, and then Zheng Zhi had cleared it with a kick, the Chinese team would probably have fallen behind in the score.