On July 17, 2011, Lu Wenbin returned to China and arrived in Kunming, Yunnan Province, to join the national team.

The national media and fans are looking forward to Lu Wenbin leading the Chinese team to break through the world preliminaries and enter the World Cup with 12 points of enthusiasm.

In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, because South Korea and Japan were the hosts, they directly entered the main event, and the Chinese team lost two opponents in the qualifiers.

And at that time, the Chinese team was also very lucky in the draw of the top 10, drawing a relatively weak group, and finally rushed out of Asia for the first time in history and entered the World Cup.

The Chinese team's entry into the World Cup became one of the three major annual news events of that year, along with the successful bid for the Olympic Games and its accession to the WTO.

However, when the World Cup really came, the Chinese team became a complete tragedy, with three games and three losses, 0 points, 0 goals and 9 goals conceded in shame.

If it weren't for Saudi Arabia at the bottom, the Chinese team would have become the worst team in that World Cup.

Even if it's not the penultimate place, few people are proud of it.

The World Preliminary Tournament relied on a lot of luck to reach the main match, and the main game was humiliatingly out, and there was not even a single goal.

Almost all Chinese media and fans regarded the World Cup as a shame.

Therefore, countless fans are looking forward to the day when the Chinese team can really enter the World Cup and make a historic breakthrough in the World Cup.

The appearance of Lu Wenbin gave fans such hope.

In the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, Lu Wenbin was still young and had just debuted, and the Football Association did not give Lu Wenbin this opportunity.

Now that the Football Association has collapsed and reorganized under the interference of state leaders, the work of the new FA team is said to have attracted the attention of the Politburo leaders.

Therefore, the current Football Association no longer dares to do anything, and everything is based on the healthy development of Chinese football.

Lu Wenbin, the FIFA Ballon d'Or winner and the world's No. 1 superstar, is naturally the target of the Football Association and even higher-level leaders.

Lu Wenbin and the national team he leads must not be disturbed in any way. Even if the advertiser wants the national team to attend a commercial event, it needs to get Lu Wenbin's consent.

If Lu Wenbin feels that commercial activities interfere with the preparation of the national team and disagrees, it is useless for advertisers to spend more money.

All signs indicate that Lu Wenbin will lead the Chinese team out of Asia and enter the finals of the World Cup in Brazil.

After arriving in Kunming, at the press conference held by the national team, Lu Wenbin also said in public that he has absolute confidence to lead the Chinese team out of Asia and enter the World Cup finals, and asked fans across the country to support him.

The domestic media also reported the news of Lu Wenbin's return to China to prepare for the World Preliminaries:

"Lu Wenbin ended Real Madrid's global training ahead of schedule, returned to China, and prepared for the World Preliminaries! 》

"The Chinese team is about to attack the qualification for the World Cup in Brazil under the leadership of Lu Wenbin! 》

Lu Wenbin said: The Chinese team will definitely be able to break out of Asia and enter the World Cup! 》

"On July 23, Kunming Tuodong Stadium, the first game of the Chinese team in the World Preliminaries, see you or disperse! 》

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The journey of the Chinese team in the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil started from the second stage, and the opponent was the Laos team that advanced in the first stage, playing home first and then away.

Although everyone knows that there is no suspense about the Chinese team's victory over Laos.

But because this is the first match of the Chinese team in the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil, it has a different meaning, and there is also a local superstar like Lu Wenbin, which naturally attracts attention, with more than 100,000 fans rushing to Kunming from all over the country.

Coupled with the local fans in Kunming, it is impossible for the Tuodong Stadium, which can only accommodate more than 40,000 fans, to fit it.

Fortunately, the city government had expected that a lot of large LCD screens were installed in the square outside the stadium and in various parks, leisure squares and commercial squares in the city to broadcast the first match of the Brazil World Cup qualifiers that attracted national attention to meet the needs of fans in the city.

Not only Kunming, but also in Guiyang, Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha, Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, etc., there are countless LCD screens erected urgently in various municipal squares and parks across the country for fans across the country to watch the live broadcast of the World Preliminaries.

If Lu Wenbin really led the Chinese team to the World Cup, these LCD screens could be used until the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Watching football games, especially this kind of national team games, requires thousands of people to watch together, cheer together, cheer together, cheer for the goal together, and scold the street for losing the ball together, so that there is an atmosphere and excitement.

Even if many people have a TV and a computer at home, they would rather go to the square to watch the live broadcast with others.

From the government, players, media, and fans, all of China is ready to hit the World Cup again.

On Saturday, the day of the game, after lunch, countless people gathered from various streets of Kunming to Tuodong Stadium.

Even if you don't have a ticket, you want to try your luck on the spot to see if you can buy a scalper ticket to watch the game.

Even if you can't buy it, it's good to watch the game outside the stadium with tens of thousands of fans and feel the atmosphere of the national team's goals up close.

Before the start of the game, when the national anthem was played, not only the 40,000 fans in the stadium sang the national anthem with the players, but also the tens of thousands of fans in the square outside the stadium.

The passionate singing of "March of the Volunteers" echoed in the sky above Tuodong Stadium.

After the entrance ceremony, the two sides shook hands, took a group photo, and picked sides, and the Chinese team won the right to kick off.

At 15 o'clock at noon on July 23, 2011, with the referee's whistle, in the cheers of more than 100,000 Chinese fans inside and outside the stadium and hundreds of millions of fans across the country, the first leg of the second round of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifiers Chinese team vs Laos officially began.

After the Qatar Asian Cup, Gao Hongbo learned from Mourinho at the suggestion of Lu Wenbin, and transformed the formation of 541 into 4231, and the defense was more layered and three-dimensional, rather than blindly piling up defenders in the backfield for defense.

The formation of 4231 starts to defend from the midfield, which can give the back line more time to prepare, and can also give the frontcourt players time to return to defense.

The formation of four lines is also the general trend of modern football, and Gao Hongbo is as good as a stream, and accepts Lu Wenbin's suggestion.

Through the training and testing of the warm-up matches after the Asian Cup and before the World Preliminaries, the players have gradually adapted to this formation.

As for Lu Wenbin, there has never been a problem with adaptability.

Didn't you see him just join Real Madrid and score a half-time hat-trick on his Real Madrid debut against the LA Galaxy?

For Lu Wenbin, who can be on the side, can shoot and pass, there is room for him to play in any position in the front court.