For the first time in his career, Robert Lewandowski won the European Golden Boot. The Bayern Munich striker has scored 41 goals in 29 Bundesliga games to claim the top scorer in Europe. It has indeed been an amazing campaign from Lewandowski who was also able to break the record of Gerd Muller's 49-year-old on the way to winning the European Golden Boot. Here is a piece of brief information about this player.
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Born on August 21, 1988, Robert Lewandowski is a Polish footballer who plays for the Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and is the captain of the Polish national team. Known for his stance, his strategy, and his finish, Lewandowski is considered one of the best strikers, and one of the most successful players in Bundesliga history. He has scored more than 500 goals in the top leagues of the club and the country.
After being the leading scorer in the third and second rounds of Polish football with Znicz Pruszków, Lewandowski moved on to Lech Poznań, who helped the team win the 2009-10 Excel. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund, where he won awards including two consecutive Bundesliga titles and the league's top scorer award.
In 2013, he also featured with Dortmund in the 2013 UEFA Champions League final. Ahead of the start of the 2014-15 season, Lewandowski has agreed to join Dortmund's domestic rivals, Bayern Munich, freely. In Munich, he has won the Bundesliga title in each of the first seven seasons. Lewandowski was instrumental in Bayern's success in the UEFA Champions League 2019-20 as part of the treble. He is one of only two players, alongside Johan Cruyff, to win the European treble, and is the leading scorer in all three competitions.
Across the country of Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has won more than 110 titles and was a member of their team at UEFA Euro 2012, Euro 2016, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. With 66 international goals, Lewandowski is the leading scorer in Poland. He received the IFFHS World's Best Goal Scorer Award in 2015 and the IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer Award in 2020. He also won the European Golden Shoe for the 2020–21 season. In addition, Lewandowski was named Poland's player of the year for a record nine times.
In 2020, Lewandowski won the Best FIFA Men's Player Award and the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award. He has been named twice in the UEFA team of the year and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season three times, and is the third-highest scorer in the history of the competition.
Lewandowski has been named four-time VDV Bundesliga Player of the Season. He has scored more than 270 goals in the Bundesliga, reaching 100 years faster than any other overseas player, and is the world's leading foreign scorer.
In addition, he has won the Bundesliga Top Scorer Award for six seasons. Lewandowski has been awarded four Guinness World Records for dragging five quick goals in any major European football league since record-keeping, after scoring five goals in nine minutes against Wolfsburg in 2015.
International Career
Lewandowski played three games for the Polish U21 team, in friendly matches against England, Belarus, and Finland.
His first appearance in the national team came on September 10, 2008, three weeks after his 20th birthday, when he faced San Marino where he took the lead and scored the winning goal in a 2-0 win in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Only Włodzimierz Lubański scored his first goal in the national team at a young age than Lewandowski, who was 16 at the time. Lewandowski scored another qualifier against the same team on April 1, 2009, in a 10-0 victory.
Playing in Warsaw in the opening match of the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament against Greece, Lewandowski scored the first goal of the tournament with the help of then-Dortmund teammate Jakub Błaszczykowski and was named Man of the Match.
He played in all three Polish matches in the tournament, as his teammates exited the group stage with two points.
Lewandowski scored two penalties in their 5-0 win over San Marino on March 26, 2013, during the 2014 World Cup qualifier, his first match as captain.
Later in the campaign, on September 6, he scored the equalizer against Montenegro 1-1 at home. Poland did not prepare for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
On September 7, 2014, in Poland's first UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier, against Gibraltar, Lewandowski scored his first international hat-trick, scoring four goals in a 7-0 win. On June 13, 2015, he scored another hat-trick as Poland lost 4-0 to Georgia, with three goals scored in four minutes on October 8, scoring twice in a 2-2 draw in Scotland, opening the scoring with the last kick. of the game to eliminate strangers.
Three days later he went on to win 2-1 with the Republic of Ireland, qualifying for Poland in the final of the tournament in France. Lewandowski ended the campaign with 13 goals, a combined European Championship qualifying record, and David Healy's Northern Ireland number in the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers.
At UEFA Euro 2016 in France, Lewandowski did not shoot the ball until the last 16 matches against Switzerland in Saint-Étienne. After a 1-1 draw, he hit his team's first attempt to win a penalty that sent them to the quarter-finals for the first time.
In the 100th minute of the final against Portugal at the Stade Vélodrome, he completed the cross for Kamil Grosicki to open another 1-1 draw, and also scored in the shootout despite the Polish defeat. At the time of Poland's exit, Lewandowski suffered more mistakes than any other player in the tournament.
On 5 October 2017, Lewandowski scored a hat-trick as he beat Armenia 6-1 to reach 50 goals in Poland, surpassing the previous record of 48 goals set by Włodzimierz Lubański as Poland's all-time leading scorer.
On 8 October 2017, Lewandowski scored in a 4-2 victory over Montenegro taking his tally to 51 goals in Poland. He completed the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier with a total of 16 goals, a record European World Cup qualifier.
Lewandowski has been named in the 23-man Poland squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Lewandowski played every minute of all three games, against Senegal, Colombia, and Japan. Lewandowski did not score as Poland did not qualify for the playoffs.
Individual Titles and Honors
- European Golden Shoe: 2020–21
- The Best FIFA Men's Player: 2020
- FIFA Ballon d'Or 4th place: 2015
- FIFA FIFPro World11: 2020
- FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2020
- IFFHS World's Best Man Player: 2020
- IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer: 2020
- IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer: 2015
- IFFHS Men's World Team: 2020
- IFFHS World's Best Man Player of the Decade 7th place: 2011–2020
- IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer of the Decade 3rd place: 2011–2020
- UEFA Men's Player of the Year: 2019–20
- UEFA Champions League Forward of the Season: 2019–20
- UEFA Champions League top goalscorer: 2019–20
- UEFA Champions League top assist provider: 2019–20
- UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019–20
- UEFA Euro qualifying Best Player: 2016
- European Sportsperson of the Year: 2020
- World Soccer Player of the Year: 2020
- FourFourTwo Player of the Year: 2020
- Tuttosport Golden Player: 2020
- The Guardian Best Footballer in the World: 2020
- Goal 50: 2019–20
- Globe Soccer Best Player of the Year: 2020
- Ekstraklasa Best Player: 2009
- Ekstraklasa top goalscorer: 2009–10
- Ekstraklasa Goal of the season: 2008–09
- II liga top goalscorer: 2007–08
- III liga top goalscorer: 2006–07
- Polish Footballer of the Year: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
- Polish Sports Personality of the Year: 2015 and 2020
- Polish Young Player of the Year: 2008
- Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2016–17, 2019–20
- Bundesliga top goalscorer: 2013–14, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
- Bundesliga Player of the Month: August 2019, October 2020
- VDV Player of the Season: 2012–13, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20
- Footballer of the Year in Germany: 2020
- Kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2013–14, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
- DFB-Pokal top goalscorer: 2011–12, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
- Bayern Munich Player of the Season: 2019–20
Personal Life
Lewandowski's father gave him the name Robert to make it easier for him when he moved abroad as a professional footballer. Lewandowski's father, Krzysztof (who died in 2005), was a Polish magistrate, and he also played football for Hutnik Warsaw. His mother, Iwona, is a former volleyball player of AZS Warszawa and later vice-president of Partyzant Leszno. His sister, Milena, also plays volleyball and represents the U21 national team.
His wife, Anna Lewandowska, won a bronze medal at the 2009 Karate World Cup. They were married on 22 June 2013 at the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Serock. They have two daughters: Klara (born May 4, 2017) and Laura (born May 6, 2020).
Lewandowski is a practicing Catholic. He met Pope Francis in October 2014, when Bayern Munich visited Vatican City following a 7–1 victory over A.S. Roma in the UEFA Champions League.
In October 2017, the day after scoring goals to help Poland prepare for the 2018 World Cup, Lewandowski completed a Bachelor of Physical Education (BPhEd) with training and management at the Academy of Sport Education in Warsaw, completing ten courses.
In addition to his native Polish, Lewandowski also speaks English and German.
Style Of Play
Although he works primarily as a target hunter in the penalty area, due to his position, first-shot ability, air force, and powerful foot shooting, his excellent technical skills, fast feet, skillful driving, vision, and body and enables him to catch the ball with his back to the post bring his teammates into the game or win his team in useful positions; although it often serves as a single-center or forward as an out-and-out striker.
He has also excelled in his work ethic and his contribution to the ball defense, and he is able to lower deep roles on the pitch, create space for his teammates and team, or to surprise defenders by running late and abrupt offensive positions.
Lewandowski is an accurate punishment and has shown coolness and calm there, and he is able to score goals from a long distance and is known for taking free kicks. In addition to his playing skills, Lewandowski has also been praised for his outstanding work ethic, physical fitness, mental and moral character, on the field and in training, for professionals, athletes, and managers.
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