Robert Lewandowski is one of the best strikers in the world. The Pole has been playing for FC Bayern Munich since 2014. Everything about career and private life.
- Robert Lewandowski is a striker at FC Bayern Munich.
- He has been the captain of the Polish national team since 2014 .
- Lewandowski has been married to Anna Lewandowska since 2013 .
Munich - Robert Lewandowski was born in Warsaw on August 21, 1988 . The sport was virtually born into the striker star. His parents were also active in professional sports. Father Krzysztof was European Junior Champion in Judo, mother Iwona played volleyball in the highest Polish league.
Robert Lewandowski: The career of the RL9 - its beginnings in Poland
Robert Lewandowski started playing football at Partyzant Leszno at the age of eight . A year later he moved to Varsovia Warsaw . There he spent seven years as a youth player before joining the men's team at Delta Warsaw in 2005 . With the fourth division club, he scored four goals in ten appearances. In the same year the change came to Legia Warsaw , the big capital club. In Warsaw Robert Lewandowski played six games for the second team in the second division and scored two goals.
For the 2006/2007 season Lewandowski went to third division Znicz Pruszkow . This transfer was an important step in his career. In the first season Lewandowski was top scorer with 15 goals and shot Znicz Pruszkow in the 2nd division. The striker also went very well in the second-highest division. Lewandowski again won the title as the top scorer in the league with 21 goals in 32 games.
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For Lewandowski, the path to the first division opens
Now the big clubs in Poland became aware of the 1.85 meter striker. After two years with Znicz Pruszkow, he moved to first division club Lech Posen . Lech Posen paid 380,000 euros for the then 19-year-old. On July 17, 2008, the Pole played his first international game , it was the first leg of the qualification for the UEFA Cup with Xäzär Länkäran from Azerbaijan. Lewandowski also scored his first international goal in this game. In his first season at Lech Posen, Lewandowski had 48 games and 20 goals across all competitions. Lech Posen also became Polish cup winner this season .
The following year, the center forward contributed 21 goals in 34 games in all competitions. Lech Posen won the Supercup this season and became champion in the Polish league for the first time since 1993 .
On to Germany. Robert Lewandowski changes to BVB
In summer 2010, the Pole moved to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga for a transfer fee of 4.75 million euros . In his first season Lewandowski was mainly used as a joker because Lucas Barrios was set. Nevertheless, he was able to tax eight goals in 33 games and thus had a share in winning the German championship . In his home country Poland , the striker was voted footballer of the year .
The striker's final breakthrough came in the 2011/2012 season. Lewandowski started in all 34 league games and scored 22 goals. Borussia Dortmund was able to defend the German championship. In the DFB Cup final, Robert Lewandowski scored three goals against Bayern Munich. The BVB won with 5: 2 and the first double won their history.
Lewandowski scored four goals in one game against Real Madrid.
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In the 2012/2013 season, Borussia Dortmund was runner-up behind FC Bayern Munich. The club caused a sensation in the Champions League . In the first leg first leg, BVB defeated Real Madrid 4-1, Robert Lewandowski scored all four goals . In the final, Dortmund then lost the all-German duel against Bayern Munich 1: 2.
In the following season it was also very successful for the Poland. Dortmund won the Super Cup against Bayern, but was only second again in the championship. Lewandowski won the scoring cannon with 20 goals . It was his last season for the Dortmund team.
Robert Lewandowski: his path from Bayern striker to world star
Since Lewandowski's contract expired at the end of the 2013/2014 season, the striker transferred to FC Bayern Munich free of charge . The Pole initially signed a contract until June 30, 2019. Since then, he has won the German championship with FC Bayern five times in a row . In addition, he has won the scoring cannon three times since the 2014/2015 season . He scored 30 league goals in the 2015/2016 season. These are just a few of the impressive numbers from Robert Lewandowski's statistics.
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Lewandowski played his 300th Bundesliga game on the tenth matchday of the 2019/2020 season . In these 300 appearances, the center forward scored 216 goals and 61 assists. He celebrates almost every one of his goals with a special celebration that has a family background. On August 29, 2019, Robert Lewandowski extended his contract early until June 30, 2023.
Robert Lewandowski: National team - Poland's record goal scorer
Robert Lewandowski made his debut in the Polish national team on September 10, 2008 . He also scored his first international goal in the World Cup qualifier against San Marino. Lewandowski has been captain of the national team since December 2014 .
On October 5, 2017, Lewandowski scored his 50th international goal in his 90th international match, the World Cup qualifier against Armenia. In this game, he also set Wlodzimierz Lubanski's 37-year-old Polish record and cracked it in the same game. Since then, Robert Lewandowski has been Poland's only goal scorer . The striker set another record for World Cup qualification: Lewandowski scored 16 goals. A player in Europe has never scored so many goals.
Robert Lewandowski, captain of the Polish national team
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Robert Lewandowski was used in both the European Championship 2012 and European Championship 2016 as well as the World Cup 2018 . In 2012 Poland did not go beyond the group stage. At the Euro 2016, they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against the future European champions Portugal. At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the group phase was over.
Robert Lewandowski's successes
- German champion: 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- German cup winner: 2012, 2016, 2019
- German Super Cup winner: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Polish champion: 2010
- Polish cup winner: 2009
- Polish Super Cup winner: 2010
Robert Lewandowski's awards
- Bundesliga top scorer: 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019
- Poland's Footballer of the Year: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Poland's athlete of the year: 2015
- Goal of the month: September 2013, September 2015
- Poland's newcomer of the year: 2008
- Poland Rediscovery of the season: 2009
Robert Lewandowski's records
With 16 goals in a European qualification round , Robert Lewandowski is the sole record holder. A player has never scored so many hits before.
On September 22, 2015, the Polish striker also set four world records . Lewandowski came on at halftime in the Bundesliga game against VfL Wolfsburg. Between the 51st and 60th minute, the attacker scored an amazing five goals . Three goals in 3:22 minutes, four in 5:42 and five goals in 8:59 minutes - and that as a substitute. With the fastest hat trick, the fastest four and five pack and five goals after substitution , he made four entries in the Guinness Book of Records.
Lewandowski in the "Guinness Book of Records"
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Gerd Müller loses Lewandowski's record
In the 2019/2020 season, Robert Lewandowski set an age-old record for Gerd Müller . The Pole scored in the victory against Union Berlin on match day 9. The Poland scored at least one goal each on the first nine match days. With his two goals on matchday 11 against Borussia Dortmund, Lewandowski set two further records : The striker is the first player in Bundesliga history to score on eleven consecutive game days . With 16 goals in eleven games he broke Gerd Müller's 50 year old record . The “Bomber of the Nation” had 15 goals in the 1968/69 season after eleven match days.
Robert Lewandowski the most successful foreign player * in the history of the Bundesliga (as of November 22, 2019: 218 hits)
Robert Lewandowski: His private life
Robert Lewandowski has been married to Anna Lewandowska (born September 7, 1988, born Stachurska) since June 22, 2013 . Anna Lewandowska is a Karateka and won the gold medal with the Polish national team at the 2013 Fudokan Karate World Championships in Prague . Anna gave birth to their daughter Klara in May 2017 . In 2020 there was even more family growth with Baby Laura. Lewandowski's wife Anna also pays close attention to her husband's diet. The striker places great emphasis on his diet and body.
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Robert Lewandowski has a sister , Milena Lewandowska.
Lewandowski finished his bachelor's degree in sport at the sports university in Warsaw in October 2017 . He received an award for his thesis. The topic was his own career and was entitled “RL9. The path to fame ” .
The Polish city of Kuznia Raciborska named a street after him in 2017 .
The Polish Post issued a stamp with the portrait of Robert Lewandowski in 2018 . The circulation of the stamp was five million.
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