Because Hoffenheim's original home stadium, Dietmar Hope, could only accommodate more than 5,000 people, and the capacity to play the Bundesliga was too low to meet the requirements.

Therefore, the German Football Association demanded that Hoffenheim must find another venue, otherwise Hoffenheim would not be qualified to participate in the Bundesliga.

Dietmar Hoppe's new stadium in Rhine-Neckar County has not yet been completed and cannot be put into use.

As a result, clubs can only borrow the home stadiums of other teams in the periphery.

Hoffenheim is not far from Stuttgart, less than 100 kilometres.

However, Stuttgart, as a rival in the Bundesliga, naturally will not lend the stadium to Hoffenheim.

If it were loaned to Hoffenheim, it would be Hoffenheim's turn to play Stuttgart at home, and Stuttgart would have to use the away team's dressing room in their own stadium, which is not good to think about.

I searched and searched and finally found Mannheim FC 50 kilometres away.

Mannheim are currently playing in the fourth tier of the German regional league, with low attendance, low ticket revenue, and little competition with Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.

Therefore, Mannheim are willing to loan their home stadium of more than 26,000 people to Hoffenheim to earn some rent as Hoffenheim's home stadium for this season's Bundesliga.

Of course, it won't actually take a season, as the new Rhein Neckard is expected to be ready for use after the winter break.

But Mannheim managed to catch a big boss, how could they agree that you would only use it for half a season?

In the end, in order to avoid being kicked back to the Bundesliga by the Football Association to make jokes, Hoffenheim could only obediently pay a season's rent.

Who told Hoffenheim to have a Forbes billionaire boss?

Sometimes, this kind of blackmail is unavoidable, just as Chelsea basically have to spend a lot more money to buy people.

After deciding on the home stadium for the 2008/2009 season, the team's first friendly opponent was also decided, which was Mannheim.

Even though it was just a friendly match and the venue was more than 50 kilometres away, Hoffenheim was flocked to more than 2,000 fans.

Together with curious Mannheim fans, more than 5,000 people came to this friendly match.

In the presence of more than 5,000 fans, Hoffenheim, who is already a Bundesliga team, beat Mannheim 8-1 and did not save face for the "landlord" at all.

In this game, Lu Wenbin, who wore the No. 9 shirt, scored a free kick and five sports goals, scoring a total of 6 goals, and even the Mannheim fans could only give Lu Wenbin a round of applause to express their amazement.

This friendly match may be due to the fact that the level difference is too far away, and the experience given is quite low, with only 50 points per assist, 100 points for goals, and 200 points of experience for wins.

Lu Wenbin did not assist, only got 6 goals 600 points + 200 points for the team to win, a total of 800 experience points reward, and the experience points rose to level 12 50,012/100,000.

After the first friendly match, the team continued to return to the training base.

A few days later, on July 16, the Chinese Football Association announced the final list of the Olympic team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including Lu Wenbin.

Kate understands Chinese, and when she saw the news when she visited the Chinese website, she couldn't help but call Lu Wenbin in surprise and ask if the level of Chinese football is very high, and Lu Wenbin can't enter the Chinese Olympic team composed of young people below U23.

Lu Wenbin had no choice but to tell Kate that he provoked fans after scoring a goal in the game last season, and was considered by the Football Association to be impulsive and unsuitable to join the national Olympic team to increase instability.

Kate was disdainful after hearing this, and told Lu Wenbin that it was definitely impossible for a national team not to recruit a strong striker because of this trivial matter.

There must be other reasons for this, but Lu Wenbin doesn't know.

Lu Wenbin thought about it and felt that Kate had a point, but he couldn't guess what the reason was. Anyway, if you don't call up, you won't be called, you just stay at the club and try to complete the task of winning the treble this season.

As a result, within a few days, Lu Wenbin's mood improved.

Because he used 2 skill points to add a potential physique, it really changed from 12/13 to 13/13.

In addition, Lu Wenbin's height and weight are slowly increasing, and his body is still developing.

On 22 July, Hoffenheim travelled to England for a friendly match against Blackburn, who finished seventh in the Premier League last season, at Ewood Park.

The game taught Lu a profound lesson and made him realize how far he is from being able to establish himself in the Premier League.

Not only does Blackburn have the usual rough and tough defensive style of English teams, but their defensive experience at the back is much higher than that of the Bundesliga team that Lu Wenbin has encountered before.

Maybe the physical quality is not too far off, but the difference in defensive toughness and experience is really obvious.

It was originally a cross-sea labor expedition, a little tired, and suddenly encountered an opponent with such a big difference in playing style, Lu Wenbin was even more uncomfortable.

After 60 minutes of the game, Lu Wenbin didn't know how many times he was knocked down, and the opponent had not been fouled by the referee, saying that it was a reasonable collision.

Within 60 minutes, Lu Wenbin only scored one goal for Hoffenheim, but Blackburn Rovers scored three goals for Hoffenheim, who fell behind 1-3 away from Blackburn.

In the 60th minute, Lu Wenbin was replaced by Ralph with Demba Ba.

Blackburn fans in the stands also laughed loudly:

"This is the strength of the Bundesliga Golden Boot?"

"It's all said that it's Deyi, how strong do you expect him to be? If the strength is really strong, why is it not the Bundesliga Golden Boot? ”

"Hmph, what if it's the Bundesliga Golden Boot? Coming to the Premier League, he can't find the north! ”

"Yes! With this thin body, he can only play in the German league! If he comes to the Premier League, he won't be able to finish a season, and he will have to lie in the hospital! ”

"Not bad!"

Now Lu Wenbin's English can understand some everyday conversations.

Sitting on the bench and listening to the occasional chatter in the back stands, Lu Wenbin made a decision in his heart: he will conquer the Premier League no matter what in the future.

Otherwise, no matter how many achievements and honors he achieves, it will not be convincing.

Of course, certainly not now!

With his current 13/13 physique, it is indeed self-defeating and self-defeating to come to the Premier League now. It's not ineffective, but it's certainly not as impressive as last season's appearance in the Bundesliga.

Only when he is stronger in the future, he will be swept away when the time comes. Especially in this Ewood Park stadium, at least four or five goals have been scored against him, so that these fans can no longer make a sound.

In the end, Hoffenheim lost 1-3 to Blackburn Rovers in this friendly match.

Among them, there are reasons why Lu Wenbin and Hoffenheim are not suitable for the rough style of play in the Premier League, and there are also reasons why everyone in the team's cross-sea labor expedition is not in good shape.

Although it is a friendly match, because the opponent is a Premier League team in the same five major leagues, the gold content is not low, and the system finally gives the same single-game experience reward as the official match of the German Cup.

Therefore, although Lu Wenbin only scored one goal, he was rewarded with 2,000 experience points, which is more than the experience gained by scoring 6 goals in the last friendly match.

Lu Wenbin's experience has risen to level 12 52,012/100,000.