Robert Lewandowski

 The truth about Lewandowski's career in  Barcelona

Robert Lewandowski currently plays a professional football in the La Liga side with Barcelona. He was born in August 1998 in Poland and also the captain of the polish national team and regarded as one of the best strikers of all time, he is one the most successful players in Bundesliga and Bayern Munich club.

The genius has been in the polish team since 2008 and has earned over 150 caps, he has been one of the players for Poland team and appeared in various competition in 2012 till date. 

He was exceptional in the FIFA World cup in 2018 and 2022, he has a record of over 84 international goals and the Poland all time highest scorer and stands to be the fourth in overall mean's international goal scorer in Europe behind the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelo Lukaku and Ferenc Puskas.

Lewandowski won the FIFA Men's best player award in 2020 and the UEFA Men's player award, the genius is the third highest goal scorer in the history UEFA Champions league, he has won several awards while in Bundesliga among was the VDV award he won over 5 times, he recorded over 300 goals in Bayern Munich and become the second highest goal scorer in the history of Bundesliga 

Early career in Lech Poznan

Lewandowski was signed from Znicz for about 1.5 million dollars to Lech Poznan in june,2008.Earlier in that month he was offer to ,his former club sporting Gijon which was newly got promoted to the main league La Liga, after staying for over ten years he was asked to find his way to another club and was debuted to Lech in 17 July 2008,in his first match he played as  substitute and replaced the substituted player in the first qualifying first leg match of the UEFA Cup against Khazar Lankaran in the genius scored the only goal in the 75th minutes of the match.Lwandowski was in the Polish first division and performed brilliantly for his club Ekstraklasa, he was the second in the goal scoring chart and finished the season with 18 goals in 42 matches.

His efforts helped his team to win the 2009-2010 Championship and become the top goal scorer with 18 goals.

His Journey with Borussia Dortmund

There was many talks and speculations about his next club and lots of club were looking to bring the genius to their side but good for Borussia Dortmund to have successfully welcomed the player in June 2010 with a four-year contract deal for a fee worth 4.5 million Euro. He scored his first goal in the match against shalke 04, and it all ended 3-1 in the Favour of the Dortmund on 19 September.

During the campaign of Bundesliga in 2011-2012 he was put to new position as Lucas Barrios was injured as Robert joined the starting eleven, the striker was brilliant as he keep netting and winning matches for his side, he recorded a hat trick on 1 October in the 4-0 win over Augsburg.

After a disappointing loss to Marseille in the UEFA Champions' League group stage, he later scored his first goal in the history of Champions League against Olympiacos in the comfortable 1-3 win on 19 October.

Robert Lewandowski put an exceptional performance with lots of achievement in Dortmund and was highly recognized and named the Polish footballer of the year in 2011.Lewandowski played his final match for Dortmund in the 2014 DFB- Pokal final against Bayern Munich on 17 May. Unfortunately they lost the match to Bayern Munich and he finished the season with 28 goals.

Lewandowski's Football Life in Bayern Munich

Lewandowski signed a pre-contractual agreement with Bayern Munich in November 2013 and was official in later January 4, 2014, and he signed a five-year contract with the side which begins in the 2014-2015 season and was announced as Bayern Munich player on 9 July 2014 officially.

He made his pre-season feature against MSV Duisburg on 2`1 July and he recorded a goal in his name. He made his competitive feature against his old club Dortmund in which they lost the game in 2-0 lost to Dortmund and scored in the 1-1 draw against Schalke 04. Lewandowski scored his first first champions League goal for Bayern in a 7-1 win over Roma, on 1 November the genius scored in the 2-1 win over Dortmund and that put Bayern in the top of the Bundesliga table with four point clear 

During 21 February 2015,Lewandowski scored twice in Bayern 6-0 win away at Paderborn, he scored twice in 21 April as Bayern overturned a deficit from the first leg to defeat Porto 7-4 on aggregate  and moved to the semifinals of the champions League  on 12 May, he was among the players that featured in the home win against Barcelona where the match ended 3-2.but were eliminated by 3-5 on aggregate . Lewandowski was jointly the second highest goal scorer alongside his teammate Arjen Robben behind the Eintracht Frankfurt's side Alexander Meier. He concluded the season with 25 goals in 49 appearances.

His second season began with Bayern Munich losing in a penalty shootout away to VfL Wolfsburg in 1 August 2015, in 22 September Lewandowski set a record in the Bundesliga by coming as a substitute and scoring 5 goals in 8 minutes and become the fastest number of goals and also set another record by scoring the fastest hat trick. On  21 November, the genius scored hat trick against Benfica in a champions League group stage match, and become the fastest player to 80 UCL goals in 100 appearances

By 15 January 2022, Lewandowski scored his 16th hat trick and 300 Bundesliga goal in a 4-0 away win over Koln on 8 March, Lewandowski scored a hat trick in a 7-1 win over Red Bull Salzburg in the second leg of Champions League round of 16.he edge past Lionel Messi previous record by the fastest player with UCL 85 goals  and also joined Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as the only two players who have scored first half time hat trick in a UCL  knockout stage game , however Lewandowski finished the League with 35 goals as the top scorer for the fifth time.

Robert Lewandowski recorded a lot of achievement in Bayern Munich and it can be said that he had a very successful football career achievement in Bayern Munich than his previous football club.

On 30 May 2022, Lewandowski stated and made his desire to leave the club for another club known to the management of the Bayern Munich football club

On 16 July 2022, Barcelona confirmed the deal agreement with Bayern Munich for the transfer of the genius and as I speak the genius is in the Spanish giant side. 

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