In the exit hall of Berlin Airport, hundreds of reporters gathered around the Hoffenheim coaches who had just gotten off the plane to conduct interviews.

Among them, head coach Ralph Rangnick and team core Lu Wenbin are naturally the most interviewed.

Journalists from within China, in particular, were quite excited.

In fact, they are basically all in Hoffenheim and have already interviewed Lu Wenbin.

Therefore, here, they did not gather around Lu Wenbin, but mostly filmed the picture of Lu Wenbin being surrounded by foreign reporters on the periphery.

This kind of sight of Chinese being welcomed by journalists from all over the world in European football makes them proud as compatriots, and they also want to report these pictures back to China.

Not only these journalists, but also many Hoffenheim fans who were stopped by airport security guards greeted the team with scarves that read "TSG 1899 Hoffenheim".

At the same time, it is also indispensable to welcome Lu Wenbin with Chinese students and overseas Chinese waving small national flags.

After seeing Lu Wenbin appear, those fans and Chinese people were extremely excited, shouting Lu Wenbin's name loudly, including many screaming female fans.

Since his excellent scoring performance in the first team, Lu Wenbin has been interviewed by reporters after every game, but the number of reporters in the past was not as large as today, and there were not as many foreign reporters as there are today.

When Lu Wenbin calmed down, he was able to calmly deal with them with a panacea answer.

Reporter: "Lu, how are you doing, can you start tomorrow's game?" ”

Lu Wenbin: "I'm in good shape, but whether I play or not depends on the manager's arrangement. ”

Reporter: "If you play tomorrow, can you continue to score against Bayern Munich and keep the record for goals scored in a game?" ”

Lu Wenbin: "It doesn't matter if I score every game or not, as long as the team can perform well. ”

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While dealing with the interviews of reporters, Lu Wenbin followed his teammates out of the hall, got on the team bus that the club had left to Berlin in advance, and went to the hotel arranged by the club near the Berlin Olympic Sports Center.

At the pre-match press conference in the afternoon, Bayern Munich coach and German coach Heathfield announced Bayern's starting list for the final openly, without any fear that Hoffenheim would be prepared.

No matter how good Hoffenheim have achieved in the Bundesliga and how remarkable Lu Wenbin's consecutive goals are, Bayern Munich has always been the leader in Germany.

Their opponents are not in Germany at all, but in Europe.

Heathfield did not shy away from announcing the starting line-up, and Ralph did not play any cautious role, insisting on delaying the announcement until two hours before the start of the game, when the starting list had to be submitted to the official website of the Football Association.

Although he is in charge of the Bundesliga, he is not a nobody.

Heathfield announced the starting list so openly, and Ralph naturally would not be afraid of him, as if he had lowered his head before the game even started.

As a result, Ralph was equally open about Hoffenheim's starting line-up.

After the announcement of the starting line-up, there is no need for Ralph to say what formation Hoffenheim will play: the same 442 midfield diamond position formation as Hoffenheim in the quarter-final against Dortmund at the Westfalen Stadium.

In the evening, major media and television stations analyzed the starting lineups and formations of the two sides, and guessed the result of the game.

Of course, except for the fans who support Hoffenheim, the vast majority of "sane" people will not think that Hoffenheim can defeat Bayern Munich to win the championship, including the Chinese.

Even if Hoffenheim eliminated Dortmund at Westfalen Stadium, even if Lu Wenbin still holds the record of scoring goals per game and averaging more than 2 goals per game.

The inherent impression makes people look at the names of the two teams, and they naturally think that Bayern Munich must win in the end.

Even in China, most of Lu Wenbin's fans and compatriots expected Bayern Munich to win the championship, and Lu Wenbin only needs to score a goal and perform well individually.

CCTV-5 did not broadcast the German Cup final live, but it was broadcast live on the Internet.

At that time, fans from China and Lu Wenbin's parents, relatives, classmates and friends will be able to watch the German Cup final with Lu Wenbin participating in the live webcast.

The next day, April 19, Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim were given some time to familiarize themselves with the pitch during the day.

As the venue for the final of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin has a capacity of 75,000 spectators, making it larger and more majestic than the Westfaren Stadium.

Of course, this is a neutral venue, not Bayern Munich's home stadium, and there is no standing seat for Bayern fans to stand and cheer on the team all the time.

Therefore, Lu Wenbin and others, who had only seen the Westfaren Stadium in the quarterfinals, just sighed at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, which is much larger than Hope Stadium, and then put into training to be familiar with the venue.

According to FIFA regulations, except for international competitions, football fields used in ordinary leagues can be rectangular as long as they are between 90 and 120 meters in length and 45 to 90 meters in width.

Therefore, in football, the length, width and size of many football fields are not fixed sizes, some courts are larger, some courts are smaller, and the composition of turf is even more ever-changing.

Therefore, there is a warm-up process and familiarization with the venue before the game.

At the same time, when the vast majority of teams play away games, their performance will be worse than that at home, and sometimes they even look like two teams, which is the reason for the so-called home dragon and away bug.

Not only the pressure from the away fans, but also the unfamiliarity of the field, the change in the size of the stadium, etc., will cause some players to play abnormally, and then affect the whole team.

After getting acquainted with the venue, it's time to wait for the official start of the game.

After lunch, there were early fans waiting outside the stadium. Their afternoon meal has to be served in the bars and restaurants around the stadium, or even just buy a snack to fill their stomachs.

At 5 p.m., the stadium opens two hours early, and anxious fans can start entering with tickets.

As time went on, the stadium seats slowly became occupied.

Although it was a neutral venue, it was the first heavyweight championship decided by the German league in 2008, and there were a lot of people watching the game.

Bayern Munich fans are all over the country, Hoffenheim fans who participated in the German Cup final for the first time also came, and there were also fans of football stars in the two teams, such as overseas Chinese and Chinese students who supported Lu Wenbin.

Naturally, there are also local citizens of the capital Berlin and many neutral fans who are just watching the championship match, as well as football association officials, celebrity politicians and so on.

As a result, by the time the game begins, the entire Olympic Stadium in Berlin is full.

The final match of the 2007/2008 German Cup, the German Cup final between Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim, is about to begin!