After winning seven championships, Lu Wenbin's honors at the club level have reached their peak.
There is no one like it before, and it is estimated that there will be no one like it after.
Even without the honor of being a World Cup champion, more and more fans and media have begun to call Lu Wenbin the King of Football.
Of course, not having a World Cup title is always a flaw and cannot gain the widest recognition.
Lu Wenbin cannot change this, so he can only wait until the 2018 World Cup in Russia to try again.
Anyway, he has the aura of being in perfect on-the-spot condition, which can be used to challenge for the World Cup championship.
If he wins the World Cup, Lu Wenbin's achievement will be much greater than that of Pele and Maradona. As some fans said, this is not the king of football, but the god of football.
In addition to the honor, the seven-time champion also increased Lu Wenbin's club shares to 49%, and brought him a large amount of experience and skill point rewards, as well as "super coach" authority after completing the task.
After activating the super coach authority, Lu Wenbin has the scout function and can spend 1 skill point each time to check the attributes of other players.
Now Lu Wenbin has too many skill points to use up, and he has nowhere to use them.
Lu Wenbin first checked his teammates, including players from all echelons, and actually found two or three talented players in the youth team and the junior team.
Furthermore, one of the youth team players was not in the right position, with 12/19 off-ball running and 10/18 shooting attributes, but he was playing as a defender, which was clearly a mismatch.
This is clearly the talent of an excellent striker.
As one of the bosses, Lu Wenbin asked the team coach to change the position of the young player and make him play as a forward.
By the end of the season, the effects were beginning to show.
Lu Wenbin's vision surprised everyone, including Vichai and Ranieri.
At the end of the 2015/2016 season, Leicester City continued to win the League Cup, FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League under the leadership of Lu Wenbin, completing the feat of winning seven titles in the season after winning seven titles in the annual season.
In the summer of 2016, Lu Wenbin flew all over Europe, using his scouting eyes to sign a group of young talented players for Leicester City.
These talented players are either just emerging and are not expensive, or are still in low-level leagues and have not been discovered, so their prices are even lower.
Since he owns shares in the club, Lu Wenbin can just consider it as making money for himself.
Throughout the summer, Lu Wenbin signed Mbappe and Pavard from France, Jaden Sancho from England, Frenkie de Jong and De Ligt from the Netherlands, Lozano from Mexico, Luka Jovic from Serbia, Piatek from Poland, Arthur from Brazil and many more for Leicester City.
Even if some people find that Leicester City has people in their positions and it is difficult for them to become a main player, they are still very excited to be noticed by the king of football Lu Wenbin, and are willing to join the seven-time champion Leicester City even if they have to play as substitutes.
In addition to his own team, Lu Wenbin also discovered several talented young players in the country and brought them to the Leicester City youth team for training.
In the 2016/2017 season, Lu Wenbin served as a player and coach for Leicester City, playing football while assisting Ranieri in player training.
Then, everyone discovered that the young players that Lu Wenbin introduced in the summer were all geniuses, and each of them showed extraordinary abilities.
Mbappe, in particular, became a main player in less than two months, and his performance became more and more crazy. He often scored goals with long-distance runs like Lu Wenbin, and opponents could not catch up with him even when running without the ball.
At the end of the season, Leicester City once again completed the annual seven championships. At the end of the season, Leicester City once again completed the season's seven championships.
Leicester City reached its peak under the leadership of Lu Wenbin.
However, after the end of the 2016/2017 season, Ranieri's contract expired and Leicester City did not renew his contract.
Lu Wenbin became a player and head coach of Leicester City with an annual salary of 50 million euros.
But with Leicester City's current fame and income, it is more than enough to afford Lu Wenbin's annual salary, and can also pay dividends to Lu Wenbin and Vichai.
Under the leadership of Lu Wenbin, Leicester City showed a more abnormal side.
In the 2016/2017 season, Leicester City won the league title unbeaten.
In the 2017/2018 season, Leicester City won the championship with a perfect record, becoming the only team in the history of world football to win the championship with a perfect record in a season.
From June 14 to July 15, 2018, the 2018 World Cup was held in Russia, and the Chinese team was in the same group as Sweden, Mexico and Germany.
As a result, last year's World Cup champion Germany was eliminated in the group stage. Lu Wenbin turned on his on-the-spot performance and led the Chinese team to three wins and advance as the group leader. The Swedish team ranked second in the group.
In the knockout round, the Chinese team eliminated Switzerland, England and Croatia and advanced to the final to compete with France for the championship.
Under the leadership of Lu Wenbin, the Chinese team was unstoppable and everyone thought they would win their first World Cup championship.
As a result, the French team unexpectedly performed quite well despite their clear advantage in strength.
In particular, Mbappe, Kante and Pavard who play for Leicester City have made significant progress in their strength under the guidance of Lu Wenbin over the past few seasons.
What's more, there are also powerful star players such as Griezmann, Pogba, Matuidi, Varane, Giroud and so on.
So many star players, coupled with their good performance, led to the final defeat of the Chinese team.
Apart from Lu Wenbin, the other players of the Chinese team were simply unable to compete with the French team.
After 120 minutes of fighting, the Chinese team was defeated 4-3 by the French team, and Lu Wenbin did not even get a chance to play as a goalkeeper in the penalty shootout.
Although the Chinese team achieved the best result for an Asian team in the World Cup, the fact that they missed the championship still made the whole world feel sorry for Lu Wenbin.
Lu Wenbin’s journey to becoming a football god will have to wait.
After the World Cup in Russia, the Chinese Football Association had a long talk with Lu Wenbin and finally decided not to renew Gao Hongbo's contract and hired Lu Wenbin as the head coach of the Chinese national team.
Of course, Lu Wenbin did not completely abandon his Leicester City club, but served as both head coach and player, and only returned to coach the national team when there were official matches.
In this case, a coach who is willing to be an assistant coach is needed to lead the team in training and play friendly matches and warm-up matches when Lu Wenbin is not coaching the national team.
Gao Hongbo, who had just been fired, did not feel discouraged by the fact that his former player Lu Wenbin was above him. Instead, he actively applied for the job and wanted to be Lu Wenbin's assistant coach. When Lu Wenbin was not coaching the national team, he would help Lu Wenbin lead the team in training and warm-up matches.
In this way, the Chinese national team completed a change of dynasty, but in reality the daily work is still presided over by Gao Hongbo.
However, the change that came after Lu Wenbin became the head coach was that Lu Wenbin could use many of the collective functions of the coaching system on the team.
The most important thing is that Lu Wenbin can promote a large number of young players according to his own ideas.
Since Lu Wenbin appeared and led the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup, third place in the Confederations Cup and fourth place in the World Cup, young people in the country have become more enthusiastic about playing football and the football population base has grown.
After several years of selection and discovery, Lu Wenbin used his scout's eye to discover a number of talented players and brought them to the Leicester City youth training camp to personally guide their training.
When Lu Wenbin came to power, he introduced a group of players who were still in the youth team, which made many domestic Super League first-team players not absent.
But they could do nothing about Lu Wenbin because Lu Wenbin's power and influence were too great.
Just when Lu Wenbin was running between leading the team in club games and national team games, on October 27, 2018, one hour after the Premier League match between Leicester City and West Ham United ended, Vichai, who was leaving by helicopter, suddenly crashed and died.
Vichai's son Xu Shengyuan was caught up in the family struggle for inheritance. Finally, Xu Shengyuan negotiated with Lu Wenbin on behalf of the Vichai family and transferred 21% of the shares to Lu Wenbin, retaining only 30% of the shares for dividends.
Lu Wenbin acquired the controlling stake in Leicester City Club and began to build the team and business operations according to his ideas. Leicester City and Lu Wenbin's 666 Investment Company were completely tied together for global promotion.
On the eve of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, Lu Wenbin completed his 2,000th career goal, becoming the only player in the history of world football with a total of more than 2,000 career goals.
After the start of the World Cup, the Chinese national team formed by the players selected by Lu Wenbin was unstoppable and won the World Cup championship with a record of seven wins. Lu Wenbin surpassed Fontaine with 15 goals in a single World Cup, becoming the king of a single World Cup and the total scorer list.
Of course, the significance of this World Cup championship does not lie in the top scorer, but in the fact that Lu Wenbin, who had already been crowned the king, was finally recognized by the whole world as the God of Football after leading his team to win the World Cup championship, higher than Pele, Maradona, Zidane, Beckenbauer and everyone else, and became an unsurpassed monument in the history of world football.
China's football atmosphere reached its peak after winning the World Cup. Football schools are being built all over the country and education departments are launching football campus leagues at all levels from universities to primary schools.
China's professional leagues are no longer limited to the Chinese Super League, China League One, China League Two and China League Three, but there are even League D and lower-level amateur leagues.
Football has completely become the most popular sport in China.
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