Robert Lewandowski

polish association football player ( yield 1988 )

Robert Lewandowski ( polish pronunciation : [ ˈrɔbɛrt lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi ] ( ) ; born 21 August 1988 ) is a polish professional football player who plays as a hitter for Bundesliga baseball club Bayern Munich and is the captain of the Poland national team. Recognized for his placement, proficiency and complete, Lewandowski is considered one of the best strikers of all time, a well as one of the most successful players in Bundesliga history. [ 4 ] He has scored over 500 senior career goals for club and nation. After being the top scorer in the third and second tiers of polish football with Znicz Pruszków, Lewandowski moved to top-flight Lech Poznań, helping the team win the 2009–10 Ekstraklasa. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund, where he won honor including two straight Bundesliga titles and the league ‘s top goalscorer award. In 2013, he besides featured with Dortmund in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final. Prior to the start of the 2014–15 temper, Lewandowski agreed to join Dortmund ‘s domestic rivals, Bayern Munich, on a spare transfer. In Munich, he has won the Bundesliga title in each of his beginning seven seasons. Lewandowski was built-in in Bayern ‘s UEFA Champions League succeed in 2019–20 as separate of a soprano. He is one of only two players, aboard Johan Cruyff, to achieve the European soprano, while being the highest goalscorer in all three competitions, and first to do it as the sole top scorer.

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A broad international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned over 120 caps and was a member of their team at UEFA Euro 2012, Euro 2016, the 2018 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2020. With 74 external goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland. He won IFFHS World ‘s Best International Goal Scorer Award in 2015 and IFFHS World ‘s Best Top Goal Scorer Award in 2020. He besides won the European Golden Shoe for the 2020–21 season. furthermore, Lewandowski has been named the polish Footballer of the year a record nine times and the polish Sports Personality of the Year doubly. 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 to the UEFA Team of the Year twice and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season four times, and is the third-highest goalscorer in the history of the competition. Lewandowski has been named the VDV Bundesliga Player of the Season a record five times. He has scored over 290 goals in the Bundesliga ( second-highest goalscorer of all fourth dimension in Bundesliga history, [ 5 ] behind only Gerd Müller ‘s 365 Bundesliga goals ), having reached the hundred cross off quick than any early extraneous actor, and is the league ‘s all-time leading foreign goalscorer. furthermore, he has won the Bundesliga Top Scorer Award in six seasons, most prominently in the 2020–21 Bundesliga where he scored 41 goals in a individual campaign, breaking Gerd Müller ‘s previous Bundesliga record of 40 goals, set in 1971–72. [ 6 ] On 30 November 2021, he finished 2nd in the Ballon D’or, equitable finishing 33 points behind the winner Lionel Messi. [ 7 ]

Club career

early career

“ When I was six, I remember Roberto Baggio at the 1994 World Cup. When I was between 10 and 14, Alessandro Del Piero was the best player for me. then my idol was Thierry Henry. He was amazing – it was n’t good how he scored the goals but what he did for the team. ”

—Lewandowski on his childhood function models [ 8 ]
Lewandowski was born in Warsaw [ 9 ] and grew up in Leszno, Warsaw West County. [ 10 ] He took his first steps in football as an unregistered actor for the local clubhouse, Partyzant Leszno. [ 11 ] In 1997, he joined MKS Varsovia Warsaw, where as a adolescent he played for seven years. [ 12 ] The follow year he moved to 4th tier side Delta Warsaw, where he finally managed to play in the first team, scoring four goals at the goal of the season. [ 13 ] In 2006–07 [ pl ], Lewandowski was the polish third base division ‘s acme goalscorer with 15 goals, helping Znicz Pruszków win the promotion. [ 14 ] The future season, he was the top scorekeeper in the polish second highest division with 21 goals. [ 14 ]

Lech Poznań

In June 2008, Lech Poznań signed Lewandowski from Znicz for 1.5 million PLN. [ 12 ] [ 15 ] Earlier that month, Lewandowski ‘s agent Cezary Kucharski offered him to his former team Sporting Gijón, which had been promoted to the La Liga, Spain ‘s first division, after ten years in the Segunda División. however, Gijón rejected him. [ 16 ] He debuted for Lech on 17 July 2008 as a stand-in in the first passing first leg match of the UEFA Cup versus Khazar Lankaran from Azerbaijan, in which he scored the lone goal of the evening in the 75th moment at the Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium. During his Ekstraklasa debut in the first crippled of the season, in a match against GKS Bełchatów, he scored a heel flick goal fair four minutes after coming into the game recently second half. In his beginning season in the Polish top division, he was second in the goal-scoring charts. Lewandowski finished the season with 18 goals in 42 matches. [ 17 ] He besides scored in a 1–1 away draw against Wisła Kraków in the 2009 Polish Super Cup on 27 July, and converted his undertake in the succeed penalty shoot-out. The future season, he became the circus tent scorekeeper with 18 goals and helped his team win the 2009–10 championship. [ 17 ] english coach, Sam Allardyce, said that Lewandowski was about to join Premier League club Blackburn Rovers in 2010, but the volcanic ash clouds caused by the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull which suspended all flights in and out of the UK, in addition to early fiscal worries, prevented the potential transfer. [ 18 ] furthermore, Lewandowski was besides approximately to join italian club Genoa, before president of the united states Enrico Preziosi decided to cancel the transfer. [ 19 ]

Borussia Dortmund

2010–2012 : debut season, league and cup double

Following press guess that Lewandowski might move to one of a number of clubs, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] he joined Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund in June 2010, signing a four-year shrink with the german cabaret [ 22 ] for a fee reported to be worth around € 4.5 million. [ 23 ] On 19 September, he scored his foremost goal in the Bundesliga to make it 3–0 in the Revierderby against Schalke 04 ; the game ended 3–1. [ 24 ] In the 2011–12 Bundesliga campaign, Lewandowski profited from an injury to Lucas Barrios and he was elevated to an ever-present side in the originate xi until the winter break. The striker responded by finding the net two times in Dortmund ‘s 3–0 DFB-Pokal beginning cycle victory over Sandhausen. [ 25 ] Lewandowski opened his league report in a 2–0 succeed over Nürnberg on 20 August 2011 by providing the finishing touch from a Mario Götze crabbed. [ 26 ] On 1 October, Lewandowski netted a hat-trick and provided an serve in the club ‘s 4–0 victory over Augsburg, [ 27 ] following a disappoint 0–3 loss to Marseille in the UEFA Champions League group stage. [ 28 ] He late scored his first Champions League goal in a 1–3 away defeat to Olympiacos on 19 October. [ 29 ] Dortmund climbed into moment place in the Bundesliga with a comfortable 5–0 victory over Köln on 22 October, with Lewandowski finding the net either side of half-time. [ 30 ] Dortmund travelled to Freiburg on 17 December and Lewandowski struck doubly and provided an assist for Kevin Großkreutz, as Dortmund eased to a 4–1 triumph, scoring his first hat-trick in Bundesliga. [ 31 ] due to his potent performances, he was named Footballer of the year in Poland. [ 32 ] Following the winter fail, on 22 January 2012, Dortmund thrashed Hamburg 5–1 to move floor on points with leaders Bayern Munich ; Lewandowski netted doubly and added an assist for Jakub Błaszczykowski in the spread-eagle. [ 33 ] He scored in a 1–0 home acquire over Bayern Munich on 11 April. [ 34 ] The result gave Dortmund a six-point shock absorber over their entitle rivals with alone four games left to play. [ 35 ] On 21 April, Lewandowski provided the aid for Shinji Kagawa ‘s 59th-minute goal as Dortmund won 2–0 over Borussia Mönchengladbach to seal their second gear square title. [ 36 ] In the final examination Bundesliga game of the campaign, Lewandowski scored two first-half goals as Dortmund beat Freiburg 4–0 and celebrated lifting the title. [ 37 ] Lewandowski finished the class as the third gear top goal scorer with 22 goals, none from the penalty spot, and six assists. [ 38 ] On 12 May, in the final game of the season for Dortmund, he scored a hat-trick in the DFB-Pokal Final, a 5–2 win over Bayern Munich, to earn the cabaret its beginning domestic double. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Lewandowski finished as the DFB-Pokal ‘s lead goalscorer, with seven goals from six games. [ 41 ]

2012–2014 : Champions League runner-up and league top goalscorer

Lewandowski playing for Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal against Wilhelmshaven in August 2013 On 12 August 2012, Lewandowski began the 2012–13 season by scoring in the 1–2 2012 DFL-Supercup frustration to Bayern Munich. [ 42 ] He made his inaugural appearance of the 2012–13 Bundesliga campaign in Dortmund ‘s 2–1 victory over Werder Bremen on the opening day of the season. [ 43 ] He netted his first goal in the 3–0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen on 15 September 2012, extending Dortmund ‘s run to 31 games unbeaten and moved the club into third base in the Bundesliga. [ 44 ] Three days former, in the club ‘s first Champions League game of the season, Lewandowski netted an emphatic 87th-minute achiever to defeat Ajax by a score of 1–0. [ 45 ] He set club ‘s raw record of the longest seduce streak, having scored in 12 consecutive league games, surpassing Friedhelm Konietzka ‘s record from 1964–65 season. [ 46 ] On 9 February 2013, Lewandowski opened the score in a home equal against Hamburg, but was sent off in the 31st minute for a cruddy on Per Ciljan Skjelbred and Dortmund lost 1–4. He finished temper with 24 league goals, one finish short of the Bundesliga ‘s top scorer, Bayer Leverkusen ‘s Stefan Kießling. According to Borussia Dortmund director Michael Zorc, talk in February 2013, Lewandowski would not be renewing his contract with the club, and would leave either in the summer of 2013 or after the 2013–14 season. [ 47 ] On 27 February, Lewandowski played in his side ‘s 0–1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the 2012–13 DFB-Pokal quarter final examination. [ 48 ] On 24 April, Lewandowski became the first base player to score four goals in a Champions League semi-final as Borussia Dortmund defeated spanish champions Real Madrid 4–1 in the first leg at Dortmund ‘s Signal Iduna Park. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] On 25 May, he played in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final in which Borussia Dortmund were defeated 1–2 by Bayern Munich. [ 51 ] On 27 July 2013, Lewandowski won the 2013 DFL-Supercup with Dortmund 4–2 against Bayern Munich. [ 52 ] He scored his first finish of the season in Dortmund ‘s 4–0 acquire over Augsburg in the golf club ‘s opening Bundesliga catch on 10 August. [ 53 ] On 1 November, he scored his only hat-trick of the season in a 6–1 Bundesliga succeed against VfB Stuttgart. [ 54 ] On 25 February 2014, Lewandowski scored doubly in the Champions League round of 16 first stage against Zenit St. Petersburg, becoming Dortmund ‘s overall clear scorer in european competition, surpassing Stéphane Chapuisat ‘s 16 goals. [ 55 ] He scored his hundredth goal for the club on his 182nd appearance, as Dortmund defeated VfL Wolfsburg 2–0 in the semi-finals of the 2013–14 DFB-Pokal on 16 April, and revealed a shirt with the number 100 during celebration. [ 56 ] Lewandowski ended the 2013–14 temper as the top goalscorer in the Bundesliga with 20 goals, which earned him the Torjägerkanone [ de ]. [ 57 ] He besides scored six goals in the Champions League, as Dortmund reached the quarter-finals. [ 58 ] During the second leg of the polish of 16 match between Borussia Dortmund and Zenit, Lewandowski received a second yellow calling card, which resulted in him being suspended for the foremost leg of the quarter-final against real Madrid. Lewandowski played his final match for Dortmund in the 2014 DFB-Pokal Final against Bayern Munich on 17 May. Head passenger car Jürgen Klopp had excused him from some training ahead of the final examination due to injury concerns ; although Lewandowski played all 120 minutes of the final, Dortmund lost 0–2. [ 59 ] He finished the season with 28 goals in 48 matches. [ 52 ] [ 60 ]

Bayern Munich

In November 2013, Lewandowski confirmed he would sign a pre-contractual agreement for Borussia Dortmund ‘s rivals Bayern Munich, [ 61 ] which formally happened on 3 January 2014, when he signed a five-year contract beginning at the startle of the 2014–15 season. [ 62 ] Lewandowski was formally presented as a Bayern Munich actor on 9 July 2014. [ 63 ]

2014–2015 : debut season and third Bundesliga title

Pre-season started on 9 July 2014 [ 64 ] at which time he was presented. [ 63 ] He made his pre–season debut against MSV Duisburg on 21 July, scoring a goal in the action. [ 65 ] On 6 August, he opened the score as Bayern contested the 2014 MLS All-Star Game at the Providence Park in Portland, Oregon, finally losing 1–2. [ 66 ]
Lewandowski play in the Champions League against CSKA Moscow in October 2014 He made his competitive introduction for his new club in a 0–2 loss to Borussia Dortmund in the 2014 DFL-Supercup on 13 August 2014, [ 67 ] and scored his first base finish in a 1–1 draw against Schalke 04 in his second league peer on 30 August. [ 68 ] On 21 October, Lewandowski scored his first Champions League goal for Bayern Munich in a 7–1 aside win against Roma. [ 69 ] On 1 November, in his first league match against Dortmund, Lewandowski scored in a 2–1 acquire which put Bayern four points clear at the circus tent of the postpone while leaving his former golf club in a relegation play-off station. [ 70 ] In his third gear equal of the season against Dortmund on 4 April 2015, Lewandowski scored in the 36th minute in a 1–0 win, after Dortmund ‘s goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller “ parried ” Thomas Müller ‘s shoot. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] On 21 February 2015, Lewandowski scored twice in Bayern ‘s 6–0 winnings aside at Paderborn, his second goal of the game was his 10th of the league season. [ 73 ] He scored doubly in the first half on 21 April as Bayern overturned a deficit from the beginning leg to defeat Porto 7–4 on aggregate and advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League. [ 74 ] Five days late, after VfL Wolfsburg lost to Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern won the Bundesliga deed. [ 75 ] He scored again on 28 April, opening a 1–1 pull back in the DFB-Pokal semi-final against Dortmund, but was late involved in a mid-air collision with Mitchell Langerak in the 116th minute of excess fourth dimension. [ 76 ] The game ended in Bayern ‘s elimination via a penalty shoot-out ( 0–2 ), and, unusually, none of the four attempts were converted by the Munich side, at their own stadium. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] Although Lewandowski stayed until the end of the match, he did n’t participate in the gunfight ; and tests former confirmed that he had fractured jaw and nuzzle bone, and had a concussion, ruling him out for approximately one workweek. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] [ 81 ] On 12 May, playing in a protective mask, he curled in at the 59th infinitesimal in his team ‘s 3–2 home victory against eventual winners Barcelona in the Champions League semifinal second leg, albeit they were eliminated by an aggregate score of 3–5. [ 82 ] With 17 goals in 31 games, Lewandowski was joint-second highest scorer of the Bundesliga season aboard teammate Arjen Robben, behind Eintracht Frankfurt ‘s Alexander Meier. [ 83 ] He finished the temper with 25 goals in 49 appearances. [ 67 ] [ 84 ]

2015–2017 : domestic achiever, Torjägerkanone and 100 Bayern goals

Lewandowski ‘s second season began with the 2015 DFL-Supercup on 1 August, with Bayern losing in a punishment gunfight away to VfL Wolfsburg ; he had been substituted in the 72nd minute for Rafinha. [ 85 ] Eight days by and by in the DFB-Pokal first round match, he scored the last goal in a 3–1 acquire against Oberliga Baden-Württemberg cabaret Nöttingen. [ 86 ] On 14 August, in the opening match of the newly Bundesliga temper, he scored the irregular goal of a 5–0 gain over Hamburg. [ 87 ] On 22 September 2015, Lewandowski set a Bundesliga record by coming on as a ersatz with Bayern trailing 0–1 to Wolfsburg and scoring five goals in 8 minutes and 59 seconds, the fastest by any player in Bundesliga history, to take a 5–1 lead. He besides set Bundesliga records for the fastest hat-trick ( three goals in four minutes ), and most goals scored by a substitute ( five ). [ 88 ] Lewandowski ‘s five goals in nine minutes was besides the fastest in any major european football league since Opta began keeping records, and it ended Wolfsburg ‘s 14-match unbeaten run. [ 89 ] He was awarded four certificates by Guinness World Records for this feat. [ 90 ] Four days later, he scored doubly in a 3–0 win at Mainz, the first goal being his 100th Bundesliga finish on his 168th appearance, a league record for a extraneous player. He besides reached 10 goals in the first step 7 matches with this brace, a feat only achieved before by Gerd Müller. [ 91 ] On 29 September, he scored a Champions League hat-trick in a 5–0 succeed over Dinamo Zagreb, putting him on ten-spot goals in three games in a week. [ 92 ] He added two in a 5–1 rout of Dortmund five days by and by, to full 12 goals in his death four appearances. [ 93 ] On 24 October, Lewandowski scored in a 4–0 home win over 1. FC Köln, a result which made Bayern the first Bundesliga team always to win all 10 of their orifice games of a season. [ 94 ] The victory in Cologne was besides Bayern ‘s 1,000th win in the Bundesliga. [ 95 ] On 11 January 2016, he achieved fourth place at the 2015 FIFA Ballon d’Or awards. [ 96 ] On 19 March 2016, Lewandowski scored the only goal in a 1–0 gain against Köln to bring his league total up to 25 goals ; a new personal good. [ 97 ] He had scored 24 goals for Borussia Dortmund during the 2012–13 temper. [ 98 ] He besides started Bayern ‘s comeback with a 73rd-minute header in the second leg of the round of 16 on 16 March, after trailing 0–2 family to Juventus, which Munich finally won 4–2 after extra time, and 6–4 on aggregate. [ 99 ] His finish against Atlético Madrid on 3 May in the second leg of Bayern ‘s Champions League semifinal exit saw him end the season ‘s contest with nine goals. [ 100 ] On 7 May 2016, Lewandowski scored both goals for Bayern in a 2–1 acquire at Ingolstadt to confirm the bavarian clubhouse as champions of Germany for the one-fourth back-to-back season. [ 101 ] A week former, he scored his thirtieth goal of the season in Bayern ‘s final examination league match of the season at home to Hannover 96. This made him the first extraneous player to score 30 goals in the Bundesliga, the foremost player since Dieter Müller in 1976–77, and secured him the Torjägerkanone for the second prison term in three seasons. [ 102 ] He finished the season with 42 goals in 51 matches. [ 85 ] [ 103 ] The 2016–17 season started with Bayern winning the 2016 DFL-Supercup on 14 August. [ 104 ] Five days late, Bayern defeated Carl Zeiss Jena 5–0 in the DFB-Pokal foremost turn, with the help of Lewandowski ‘s hat-trick during the first half and aid to Arturo Vidal in the 72nd hour. [ 105 ] [ 106 ] He opened the 2016–17 Bundesliga season with another hat-trick in a 6–0 victory against Werder Bremen. [ 107 ] On 13 December, Lewandowski signed a new abridge with Bayern, keeping him at the club until 2021. [ 108 ] On 11 March 2017, Lewandowski reached 100 goals for Bayern in his 137th appearance for the club, scoring doubly in a 3–0 victory against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga. [ 109 ] He finished the season with 42 goals in 47 matches. [ 104 ] [ 110 ]

2017–2019 : consecutive Golden Boots and all-time extraneous Bundesliga goalscorer

The season began with Bayern Munich winning the 2017 DFL-Supercup against Borussia Dortmund, in which Lewandowski scored the opening goal for the Bavarians by controlling a low crisscross from Joshua Kimmich to cancel out Christian Pulisic ‘s undoer. The couple ended 2–2 after extra prison term. Lewandowski, again, scored the first gear penalty of the gunfight as Bayern finally won 5–4. [ 111 ] Lewandowski started from where he left in the last season and once again was the top scorer in the early stages of the 2017–18 Bundesliga. On 13 December, in the league regular against Köln, he scored the lone finish of the game, to reach Bundesliga ‘s circus tent ten-spot goalscorers of all time. [ 112 ] A match of months belated, on Matchday 22, Lewandowski again found the back of the net income against Schalke 04 at the Allianz Arena to equal the record of scoring in 11 consecutive home games in a single season, a commemorate besides held by then Bayern director Jupp Heynckes. [ 113 ] He continued his finish scoring shape by netting a hat-trick against Hamburg as the runaway leaders won 6–0, while he besides missed a kick from the blot which would have been his fourth goal of the day. This was his first penalty missed for Bayern in the Bundesliga, however he scored the second gear spot kick to complete his hat-trick. [ 114 ]
Lewandowski in trail in March 2017 On 11 February 2018, he was voted Poland ‘s Footballer of the year for the seventh time in a row. [ 115 ] On 22 February, he fired his long-time agentive role, Cezary Kucharski. Lewandowski hired celebrated dealmaker Pini Zahavi as his new agent ; the rent of Zahavi was rumoured to be the get down of Lewandowski trying to seal a summer affect to Real Madrid. [ 116 ] On 24 February, he played his 250th Bundesliga game against Hertha BSC. [ 117 ] On 19 May, Lewandowski scored Bayern ‘s merely goal in a 3–1 kill in the DFB-Pokal Final against Eintracht Frankfurt. [ 118 ] Lewandowski finished the league as the Bundesliga ‘s peak goalscorer with 29 goals. This was the third time he won the Torjägerkanone award. [ 119 ] He finished the temper with 41 goals in 48 matches in all competitions. [ 120 ] On 1 August, after a summer of transfer meditation, Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, confirmed in an interview that Lewandowski would not be allowed to leave Bayern at any price, saying “ the circus tent timbre we have at Bayern Munich will stay here. With Robert, we clearly want to send a sign to people within and outside the club : Bayern Munich are completely unlike to other clubs who get weak when certain sums are mentioned ” [ 121 ] On 12 August, Lewandowski recorded the first always hat-trick in the DFL-Supercup in a 0–5 off victory against Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2018 edition as Bayern Munich went on to win the title for the record seventh time. [ 122 ] He besides became the all-time top scorer in the german Supercup history. [ 123 ] [ 124 ] On 27 November, Lewandowski became the third-fastest player to score 50 goals ( after Lionel Messi and Ruud van Nistelrooy ) in the Champions League, when he scored two goals in a 5–1 group stage home win over Benfica. It took Lewandowski good 77 Champions League matches to reach the milestone. [ 125 ] He finished as the peak scorekeeper in the Champions League group stage with eight goals in six matches. [ 126 ] On 9 February 2019, Lewandowski scored in a 3–1 acquire over Schalke 04 and became the first actor to score 100 competitive goals at the Allianz Arena. His goal was besides his 119th league finish for Bayern Munich, which saw him draw level with Roland Wohlfarth as the club ‘s third-highest goalscorer of all-time. [ 127 ] He surpassed Wohlfarth the following calendar month after scoring a stimulate in a 5–1 succeed over Borussia Mönchengladbach, with his second goal besides seeing him equal Claudio Pizarro ‘s record of 195 league goals for the most Bundesliga goals by a extraneous actor. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] In his identical future fastness, he broke Pizarro ‘s record by scoring doubly in a 6–0 gain over Wolfsburg. [ 130 ] On 6 April, in the hundredth Bundesliga meet between Bayern Munich and Dortmund, Lewandowski scored twice in a 5–0 winnings, with his foremost goal taking him to 200 goals in the league. [ 131 ] [ 132 ]

2019–2020 : double and Best FIFA Men ‘s musician

On 12 August, Lewandowski scored his beginning goal of the season when Bayern defeated Energie Cottbus 3–1 in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. [ 136 ] Four days later, he scored two goals in the 2019–20 Bundesliga undoer against Hertha BSC. With his goals, Lewandowski set a Bundesliga record for scoring a finish in the season opener for the fifth class in a quarrel. [ 137 ] He then scored a hat-trick against Schalke at the Veltins Arena on 24 August, as the Reds won 3–0. [ 138 ] On 29 August, Lewandowski extended his contract at Bayern until 2023. [ 139 ] Lewandowski scored his two-hundredth goal for Bayern in a 3–0 win against serbian golf club Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League on 18 September. [ 140 ] Later that calendar month, after scoring his tenth goal of the political campaign during a 3–2 win over Paderborn 07, he became the first musician in Bundesliga history to achieve double figures for goals scored after the beginning six equal rounds. [ 141 ] Lewandowski then became the beginning musician in Bundesliga history to score in each of the opening nine, ten and football team matches of a season, surpassing the criminal record of eight set by former Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] [ 144 ] On 26 November, Lewandowski scored 4 goals in under 15 minutes as Bayern defeated Red Star Belgrade 6–0 in their revoke repair and clinched foremost place in their Champions League group, setting a new record for fast clock time to score four goals in a Champions League catch. He besides became only the second musician ever to score four goals in multiple Champions League matches. [ 145 ]
On 25 February 2020, Lewandowski equalled Cristiano Ronaldo ‘s criminal record of nine away goals in a season in Europe ‘s crown club contest. He did indeed by scoring a goal in a 3–0 winnings against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge ( he besides assisted Serge Gnabry twice in that match ). [ 146 ] On 10 August, Lewandowski scored a brace and provided two assists in a 4–1 winnings over Chelsea in the render leg. [ 147 ] On 14 August, he assisted and scored in Bayern ‘s 8–2 decimation of Barcelona in the quarter-finals. [ 148 ] Lewandowski scored another goal, to be 15 goals in entire, in his one-ninth straight Champions League equal in Bavarian ‘s semifinal 3–0 win against Lyon. [ 149 ] His european marking streak ended when he failed to score a goal in the Champions League final peer against Paris Saint-Germain on 23 August ; however, Bayern defeated PSG 1–0, giving Lewandowski his first Champions League style. [ 150 ] He besides became the second player ever to win the European ternary while being the top scorer in all three competitions, repeating Johan Cruyff ‘s accomplishment with Ajax from the 1971–72 season. [ 151 ] however, Lewandowski was the first to do so as the sole top scorer in all three competitions. [ 152 ]

2020–present : Ballon d’Or Striker of the Year, European Golden Shoe and breaking Gerd Müller ‘s record

On 24 September, Lewandowski assisted Leon Goretzka ‘s opener in 2–1 victory over 2019–20 UEFA Europa League winners Sevilla in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup in Budapest. [ 153 ] 6 days belated, he played in Bayern ‘s 3–2 succeed over Borussia Dortmund in the 2020 DFL-Supercup, to win their fifth trophy of the year. [ 154 ] On 4 October, he scored all four goals in a 4–3 win against Hertha BSC. [ 155 ] On 24 October, he scored a hat-trick in a 5–0 gain against Eintracht Frankfurt, to become the first base actor in Bundesliga to score ten-spot goals in only five matches. [ 156 ] On 16 December, he scored a brace against Wolfsburg to be the third actor to pass the 250-goal mark in Bundesliga, after Gerd Müller and Klaus Fischer. [ 157 ] After winning the soprano with Bayern Munich and his performances in the tournaments, [ 158 ] he was named The Best FIFA Men ‘s Player 2020 on 17 December, becoming the first Polish player to win the award. [ 159 ] [ 160 ] The cancellation of the 2020 Ballon d’Or was met with extensive criticism, as most newsworthiness and sports organizations believed Lewandowski was the front-runner and ought to win the award. [ 161 ] On 17 January 2021, Lewandowski became the first base player in Bundesliga history to score 21 goals after just 16 games – a new Hinrunde read, beating Gerd Müller ‘s 20 goals during the 1968–69 season. [ 162 ] On 8 February, he scored a brace in a 2–0 win over Al Ahly in the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup semi-finals. [ 163 ] On 11 February, he won the FIFA Club World Cup 2020 with the club after 1–0 acquire against mexican top-flight golf club Tigres in the final, as Bayern became the second cabaret ever ( after Barcelona in 2009 ) to win the sextuple. He was besides involved in Benjamin Pavard ‘s winning goal, and was named player of the tournament. [ 164 ] On 23 February, Lewandowski opened the score in a 4–1 acquire against Lazio in the first leg of the Champions League circle of 16, reaching his 72nd Champions League goal and surpassing Raúl as the third base highest goalscorer in the competition ‘s history. [ 165 ] On 6 March, he scored his 12th Bundesliga hat-trick in a 4–2 winnings over his former cabaret Borussia Dortmund, to reach 31 goals in 23 matches. [ 166 ] On 13 March, he scored a goal in a 3–1 away win over Werder Bremen, therefore he became the joint-second on the all-time Bundesliga scoring list with 268 goals along with Klaus Fischer. [ 167 ] On 20 March, he surpassed Fischer, as he scored a perfect hat-trick in the first half of a 4–0 gain over VfB Stuttgart. [ 168 ] On 28 March, he scored two goals in a 3–0 home winnings against Andorra in a World Cup qualification pit, and besides damaged ligaments in his right field knee ( he was taken off after 63 minutes ) ; hence, he missed both Champions League quarter-final matches against Paris Saint-Germain, in which Bayern Munich lost on away goals rule after a 3–3 draw on aggregate. [ 169 ] On 24 April, he returned after about a calendar month on the sidelines in a 1–2 frustration to Mainz, where he scored in add time. [ 170 ] On 8 May, he scored his 14th Bundesliga hat-trick in a 6–0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach. [ 171 ] On 22 May, he broke Gerd Müller ‘s record of 40 goals in the 1971–72 season with a 90th minute goal in Bayern ‘s 5–2 gain over Augsburg to reach his 41st finish on the concluding day of the season. [ 172 ] He besides managed to win his beginning european Golden Shoe award. [ 173 ] Lewandowski finished the season with 48 goals in 40 matches in all competitions, reaching at least the 40-goal landmark for the sixth time. [ 174 ] Lewandowski kicked off his 2021–22 Bundesliga season with a volley-shot counterweight in a 1–1 open fixture draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 13 August, making him the first player to score in seven consecutive Bundesliga opening games. [ 175 ] He besides scored a brace and backheeled to Thomas Müller in a 3–1 away win against Dortmund in the 2021 DFL-Supercup on 17 August. The catch was preceded by a moment of silence for Gerd Müller, who died two days earlier. [ 176 ] On 28 August, he scored his fifteenth Bundesliga hat-trick in a 5–0 winnings over Hertha BSC, [ 177 ] setting a new club and german read for the most back-to-back appearances in all competitions with a goal at 16, [ 178 ] surpassing the previous record of 15 held by Gerd Müller from 1969 to 1970. [ 179 ] In addition, he managed to reach more than 300 goals with Bayern Munich in all competitions. [ 180 ] On 18 September, Lewandowski scored in his 13th consecutive Bundesliga home match against VfL Bochum, surpassing the previous league record of 12 held by Gerd Müller ( October 1969 to April 1970 ) and Jupp Heynckes ( June 1972 to February 1973 ). [ 181 ]

“ You deserve your Ballon d’Or. last year everyone agreed that you were the winner. Hopefully France Football can give it to you to have in your home, because you were the truthful winner if it were n’t for the pandemic. You should have one in your house excessively. ”

– 2021 Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi on Lewandowski in his acceptance speech after the prize was cancelled the former year [ 182 ]
On 23 November, Lewandowski opened the score with a bicycle kick in a 2–1 away win against Dynamo Kiev in a Champions League group stage match, becoming the inaugural player to score in nine back-to-back games in two separate seasons of the contest. [ 183 ] Midway through the season, Lewandowski finished second in the 2021 Ballon d’Or award, behind Lionel Messi of Paris Saint-Germain and received the Striker of the Year award by the France Football magazine. [ 184 ]

International career

2007–2013 : youth level and early international career

Lewandowski began his international career with Poland under-19 in 2007. He would besides make three appearances for Poland ‘s U21 team, in friendly matches against England, Belarus and Finland. His debut for the senior national team came on 10 September 2008, three weeks after his twentieth birthday, against San Marino where he came on as a substitute and scored a goal in a 2–0 away win in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. [ 185 ] [ 186 ] only Włodzimierz Lubański scored a goal on his debut for the national team at a younger age than Lewandowski, having been 16 at the meter. Lewandowski scored another qualifying finish against the same team on 1 April 2009, in a 10–0 victory. [ 187 ]
Lewandowski play for Poland against Hungary in November 2011 Playing in Warsaw in the open catch of the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament against Greece, Lewandowski scored the first goal of the competition after an assist from then Dortmund teammate Jakub Błaszczykowski and was named Man of the Match. [ 188 ] He played in all three games for Poland in the tournament, as the co-hosts crashed out of the group stage with two points earned. [ 189 ] [ 190 ]

2013–2017 : Assuming the captainship

Lewandowski scored two penalties in the 5–0 win against San Marino on 26 March 2013 during the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, his first match as master. [ 191 ] Later on in the political campaign, on 6 September, he scored the equalizer against Montenegro in a 1–1 home plate draw. [ 192 ] Poland did not qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. On 7 September 2014, in Poland ‘s foremost UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier, away against Gibraltar, Lewandowski scored his beginning international hat-trick, netting four goals in a 7–0 win. [ 193 ] On 13 June 2015, he scored another hat-trick in Poland ‘s 4–0 kill of Georgia, with the three goals scored within the quad of four minutes. [ 194 ] On 8 October, he scored doubly in a 2–2 draw away to Scotland, unfold and equalising with the end kick back of the game to eliminate the hosts. [ 195 ] Three days later he headed the winner in a 2–1 victory against the Republic of Ireland, qualifying Poland for the tournament finals in France. [ 196 ] Lewandowski ended the campaign with 13 goals, a joint european Championships modification record with David Healy ‘s count for Northern Ireland in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. [ 197 ]
At UEFA Euro 2016 in France, Lewandowski did not have a tear on target until the last-16 match against Switzerland in Saint-Étienne. [ 198 ] Following the 1–1 draw, he scored his team ‘s beginning attack in the penalty gunfight victory that sent them to the quarter-finals for the first base time. [ 199 ] In the hundredth second of the quarter-final against Portugal at the Stade Vélodrome, he finished Kamil Grosicki ‘s cross to open another 1–1 drawing card, and again scored in the gunfight although the Poles lost. [ 200 ] At the time of Poland ‘s die, Lewandowski had suffered more foul than any other player in the tournament. [ 200 ]

2017–present : all-time Poland top scorekeeper

On 5 October 2017, Lewandowski scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 succeed over Armenia to take his count to 50 goals for Poland, surpassing the previous record of 48 goals set by Włodzimierz Lubański to become the all-time top scorekeeper for Poland. [ 201 ] [ 202 ] On 8 October 2017, Lewandowski scored a finish in a 4–2 acquire over to Montenegro taking his reckoning to 51 goals for Poland. [ 203 ] He finished the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign with 16 total goals, a phonograph record for a european World Cup qualifier. [ 203 ] Lewandowski was called up to the 23-man polish squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [ 204 ] Lewandowski played every minute in all three matches, against Senegal, Colombia and Japan. Lewandowski did not score a goal as Poland did not qualify for the smasher phase. [ 205 ] On 19 June 2021, in Poland ‘s moment group match of UEFA Euro 2020 against Spain, Lewandowski scored the equalising goal in a 1–1 draw ; hence, he became the first Polish player to score in three straight european Championships. [ 206 ] [ 207 ] On 23 June, he scored a brace in a 2–3 get the better of against Sweden ; however, Poland finished last in their group and were knocked out from the group stages. [ 208 ]

expressive style of toy

Lewandowski is wide regarded as one of the best strikers in the world, [ 209 ] [ 210 ] [ 211 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] and is even considered by many to be one of the greatest centre-forwards of all time. [ 214 ] An accurate and effective finisher with his lead and both feet, Lewandowski is a prolific goalscorer. A all-around forward, he is said to possess about all the necessity qualities of a traditional number nine : acme, forte, balance, pace, intelligent motion and proficiency with both feet. [ 215 ] Although he chiefly operates as a goal-poacher in the punishment area, due to his positional feel, ability to shoot first time, potency in the breeze, and knock-down shoot with either foot, his excellent technical skills, quick feet, adept trickle, vision, and physique besides enable him to hold up the ball with his back to goal and either bring his teammates into play, or win pollute for his team in useful positions ; despite frequently functioning as a lone- concentrate ahead or as an absolute striker. He has besides stood out for his work-rate and defensive contribution off the ball, and is capable of dropping into deep roles on the lurch, in ordering to create outer space for teammates with his movement, or storm defenders by making deep and sudden attack runs into the area. Lewandowski is an accurate penalty taker and has repeatedly shown chilliness and composure on the spot ; he is besides capable of scoring from farseeing range, and has been known to take barren kicks. In addition to his playing ability, Lewandowski has besides been praised for his great work-ethic, fitness, brain, and discipline, both on the pitch and in educate, by pundits, players and managers. [ 216 ] [ 217 ] [ 218 ] [ 219 ] [ 220 ]

personal life

Lewandowski ‘s father gave him the diagnose Robert to make it easier for him when moving overseas as a professional football player. [ 218 ] Lewandowski ‘s forefather, Krzysztof ( died in 2005 ), [ 221 ] was a polish judo supporter, and besides played football for Hutnik Warsaw in the second division. [ 222 ] His mother, Iwona, is a former volleyball player for AZS Warsaw and late vice-president of Partyzant Leszno. [ 222 ] His sister, Milena, besides plays volleyball and has represented the U21 national team. [ 222 ] His wife, Anna Lewandowska, won the tan decoration at the 2009 Karate World Cup. [ 222 ] They married on 22 June 2013 in the church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Serock. They have two daughters : Klara ( born May 2017 ) [ 223 ] and Laura ( born May 2020 ). [ 224 ] Lewandowski is a practising Catholic. [ 225 ] He met Pope Francis in October 2014, when Bayern Munich visited Vatican City following a 7–1 winnings over A.S. Roma in the UEFA Champions League. [ 226 ] In October 2017, the day after scoring to help Poland qualify for the 2018 World Cup, Lewandowski finished Bachelor of Physical Education ( BPhEd ) with coaching and management at the Academy of Sport Education in Warsaw, concluding a ten of studies. [ 227 ] [ 228 ] [ 229 ] In addition to his native Polish, Lewandowski besides speaks English and German. [ 230 ] [ 231 ]

Philanthropy and commercial enterprise

Lewandowski mural in Chorzów Lewandowski and his wife, Anna, have supported, donated and raised money for diverse charitable organisations and for children throughout their career, including Children ‘s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw, for which they ‘ve raised more than 150,000 PLN during Anna ‘s birthday party on 25 August 2018. [ 232 ] Lewandowski besides donated 100,000 PLN for the treatment of cyprian Gaweł, a three-year-old son from Hel ; [ 233 ] and helps raising funds for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity each year, donating his personal items or private meetings that are sold at on-line auctions. [ 234 ] [ 235 ] [ 236 ] In March 2014, he was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. [ 237 ] In March 2020, Lewandowski and his wife, Anna, donated €1 million during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 238 ] Beside philanthropy, Lewandowski besides invests chiefly in startups, e-commerce and websites, chiefly through Protos Venture Capital, a party of which he is a stockholder. [ 239 ] He besides owns “ Stor9_ ”, an representation specialising in market communications. [ 240 ]

In 2013, Lewandowski signed a sponsorship hand with Nike. Lewandowski featured on the cover of the polish edition of EA Sports ‘ FIFA 15 video game, aboard Lionel Messi. [ 241 ] Lewandowski ‘s “ X ” goal celebration – arms crossed and index fingers pointing up – appears in FIFA 18. [ 242 ]

career statistics

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As of match played 27 November 2021[17][243]

International

As of match played 12 November 2021[244][245][246]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Poland

2008
4
2

2009
12
1

2010
13
6

2011
11
3

2012
10
2

2013
10
3

2014
6
5

2015
7
11

2016
12
8

2017
6
9

2018
11
4

2019
10
6

2020
4
2

2021
12
11

Total
128
74

Honours

Lewandowski during training with Bayern Munich, 2019 Znicz Pruszków
Lech Poznań [ 247 ]
Borussia Dortmund [ 247 ]
Bayern Munich
Individual
Orders