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Nicknamed ‘The Body’ and dubbed a ‘machine’ by his spouse, Robert Lewandowski has completed what many thought unattainable — relegating superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to supporting roles at a soccer awards present. On Thursday, Bayern Munich’s Polish striker claimed FIFA’s ‘The Best’ prize for the 12 months’s high footballer, a season topped by a European Champions League medal.
“He deserved it more than anyone else. He played the season of his life,” stated Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge after Lewandowski’s 55 targets in 2019/20 have been a key consider Bayern profitable the treble.
The Poland ahead has already scored 18 targets in 17 video games this season, hitting the online twice in opposition to Wolfsburg on Wednesday to move the milestone of 250 Bundesliga targets.
The reality Lewandowski has needed to wait till he’s 32 to be topped at FIFA’s ‘The Best’ awards is all the way down to the way in which he proved himself within the knock-out phases of the Champions League final season.
Despite having been the Bundesliga’s top-scorer for 5 of the final seven seasons, Lewandowski was getting a fame for struggling to seek out the online in key Champions League video games.
Up till February, he had failed to attain in his earlier seven matches within the knock-out phases.
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His 4 targets for ex-club Dortmund within the 2013 semi-final, first-leg, in opposition to Real Madrid appeared a light reminiscence.
All that modified in February’s final 16 win over Chelsea, when Lewandowski scored at Stamford Bridge, then arrange Serge Gnarby’s two targets in a 3-Zero away win.
When the return leg was performed almost six month later, Lewandowski had a hand in all 4 targets — scoring twice and creating two extra — within the 4-1 win on the Allianz Arena.
Lewandowski adopted that up by scoring within the historic 8-2 quarter-final rout of Messi’s Barcelona and netted once more within the 3-Zero semi-final win over Lyon.
He completed because the Champions League’s top-scorer with 15 targets, two wanting Ronaldo’s report for a single season and was dubbed ‘LewanGOALski’ by Bayern team-mate Thomas Mueller.
His three targets on this season’s group phases places him stage with Real Madrid legend Raul on 71 Champions League targets, wanting Messi’s 118 and Ronaldo, who has scored 134 occasions.
In October, Lewandowski was named UEFA’s Player of the Year after Bayern added the UEFA Super Cup to their Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League titles.
He might full the set in February if Bayern win the Club World Cup in Qatar.
Lewandowski was noticed as a uncooked 21-year-old taking part in Polish league membership for Lech Poznan, the place he scored 41 targets in 82 video games and joined Dortmund in 2010.
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He made his breakthrough underneath Jurgen Klopp, serving to Dortmund win back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2010/11 and 2011/12.
He hit a hat-trick within the 5-2 drubbing of Bayern within the 2012 German Cup ultimate, becoming a member of the Munich giants two years later having scored 103 targets in 187 video games for Dortmund.
His targets on Wednesday imply Lewandowski has now scored 264 occasions in 306 video games for the European champions.
Nicknamed ‘The Body’ by his team-mates, Lewandowski is thought for his disciplined method to vitamin and coaching, leading to his honed physique.
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“My husband is a machine,” admits spouse Anna, a former Polish karate worldwide who serves as his private coach.
Lewandowski isn’t injured and former Bayern captain Oliver Kahn sees the striker as “an absolute model of professionalism, a condition for staying at the highest level for a very long time.”
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