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Robert Lewandowski is assured of being named FIFA’s finest male footballer on Thursday on the energy of his 55-goal haul to assist Bayern Munich win the treble final season. The Poland striker, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are shortlisted within the males’s class for FIFA’s ‘The Best’ awards.
“We were the best, there’s no doubt about that,” Lewandowski mentioned on Wednesday forward of the web ceremony at FIFA headquarters in Zurich.
After a season “when you’ve scored a lot of goals and won everything, I don’t think there’s anyone I can compare myself to,” the 32-year-old added confidently.
His objectives helped Bayern elevate the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League trophies in 2019/20 as top-scorer in all three competitions.
Lewandowski has already been named the footballer of the yr for Germany and Europe.
Croatia’s Luka Modric, voted ‘The Best’ FIFA males’s footballer in 2018, is the one participant to have damaged Ronaldo and Messi’s domination since 2008.
Ronaldo has been voted participant of the yr 5 instances, one lower than Messi.
Can the Poland striker – who team-mate Thomas Mueller has dubbed ‘LewanGOALski’ – break the mould?
“There’s no one who deserves it as much as Robert,” mentioned Bayern boss Hansi Flick, who’s shortlisted for coach of the yr alongside Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp and Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa.
Bayern captain Manuel Neuer – who together with Jan Oblak and Alisson Becker is up for the perfect male goalkeeper award – says Lewandowski is “unique”.
“I’m really happy to have him in my team – and not to have to play against him,” Neuer quipped.
The numerous class winners shall be determined by the votes of the captains and head coaches of all of the nationwide groups, plus greater than 200 media representatives, whereas followers may vote.
England’s Lucy Bronze, Pernille Harder of Chelsea and French defender Wendie Renard are within the operating for the ladies’s award.
However, Bayern gamers are solely too conscious of the hazards of getting their hopes up.
Former Munich winger Franck Ribery was crestfallen in 2013 – when Bayern additionally received the treble – to have been voted third behind Ronaldo and Messi.
A yr later, Neuer needed to accept third behind the superstars regardless of excellent shows to assist Germany win the 2014 World Cup.
Lewandowski scored in Bayern’s 8-2 thrashing of Barcelona within the quarter-finals of the Champions League in August with Messi on the dropping crew.
A footballer from a Bundesliga membership has by no means been voted because the world’s finest participant.
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Lothar Matthaeus, the one German voted FIFA world participant of the yr, was at Inter Milan when he achieved the feat in 1991.
Lewandowski wouldn’t be stunned if Messi wins it once more on Thursday, including: “we’ll have to wait 100 years until someone like him is born again”.
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