Lewandowski, describing him, is a common word: "goal machine". Indeed, he is a ruthless finisher, like a scoring machine, constantly scoring goals. As a tall striker, he has more than just header skills, good physical balance, wide vision, not only strong finishing ability, but also strong assist ability, and can play a good role in the front and back tandem.
Lewandowski can be said to be the hope of Polish football, it can be said that it is thanks to a superstar like Lewandowski that the Polish team can return to the World Cup stage in 2018 after 12 years, and this year in the World Cup main tournament in a row.
1. Grassroots heroes
Lewandowski is a grassroots hero, starting out in the Polish First Division and not starting from a high start. However, in his first season , at the age of 18 , he became the top scorer in Poland C and led the team to promotion to Polish B , then won the Polish B Golden Boot with 21 goals in Polish B , before being poached by Poznań in Poland A . Then, similarly, the Polish First Division won the Best Newcomer award in the first season, the Polish First Division Golden Boot in the second season, and was nominated for the Footballer of the Year, when Lewandowski was only 21 years old.
As the Polish Golden Boot, Lewandowski was quickly hit by the major giants, and directly jumped to the Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund, although he was born in the grassroots, but the speed of rise was very fast, in the three levels of the Polish league, all are golden boots.
(Polish League, three divisions, three seasons, three Golden Boots)
After arriving at Dort, the myth of Lewandowski continued, winning the Bundesliga title in Dort's first season. Note that it is the Bundesliga champion, in the case of Bayern's monopoly on the Bundesliga championship in the past 10 years, does it feel like a long time ago to hear Dort win the championship? And it was Lewandowski who brought all this to Dort.
(Lewandowski led Dort to the team's first-ever Bundesliga + DFB-Pokal double)
After winning the title in his first season, Lewandowski was already Dortmund's top scorer in the second season at Dortmund, scoring 22 goals in 34 appearances, leading Dortmund to defend the Bundesliga title, and beating Bayern in the German Cup to win the first double in the history of Borussia Dortmund, and Lewandowski, who scored the most goals, was undoubtedly the first contributor. Over the next two years, Lewandowski not only remained efficient in the league, but also scored goals in the Champions League.
Second, the Bayern machine
Finally Bayern could not sit still, Bayern in the Bundesliga is to buy whoever has good players, strengthen themselves and weaken the enemy. For such an efficient goalscorer as Lewandowski, Bayern will certainly not be soft. Since then, the hegemony of Lewandowski and Bayern has begun, and it has continued to the present, and after Bayern won the title last season, it has completed 10 consecutive Bundesliga titles and become the first team in the five major leagues to win ten consecutive titles, and all this, the top scorer Lewandowski is of course the most credited.
In his days at Bayern, Lewandowski can basically be described as scoring goals. In the sixth round of the 2015 Bundesliga, Bayern defeated VfL Wolfsburg 5-1, Lewandowski scored 5 goals in 9 minutes in 51~60 minutes, while breaking the Guinness record of the fastest hat-trick, the fastest big four, the fastest five goals, and the fastest substitute to score 5 goals.
(Lewandowski won almost every honor he could during his time at Bayern)
There is not much to say about other honors, the basic ones that can be won are taken by Lewandowski, the Bundesliga champions are won every year, the Golden Boot is no stranger, and it is common to be selected for the best team, as well as the German Cup and the Champions League. But Lewandowski has always had a pain, and that is the Ballon d'Or.
Third, the pain of the golden ball
Lewandowski has not yet won the Ballon d'Or, but he is fully qualified to win the Ballon d'Or, or in other words, world football owes him a Ballon d'Or. Looking back on Lewandowski's Ballon d'Or, it's a shame.
In 2020, he and Bayern won 6 trophies, which is the peak of Bayern, and Lewandowski personally also won the Bundesliga Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot, scoring 15 goals in the Champions League is also the Golden Boot, whether it is individual performance or team honors, Lewandowski is full, and this year's Golden Ball Award basically knows that it is Lewandowski's without voting. However, due to the epidemic, the Golden Globes were canceled that year.
(a trace of helplessness, a trace of unwillingness)
In 2021, he scored 69 goals in a single year, the efficiency is robotic, 41 Bundesliga goals broke the single-season goal record in Bundesliga history, and his personal performance is still impeccable, plus the 2020 Ballon d'Or was not issued, and in 2021, Lewandowski's Ballon d'Or is very loud. But it happened to encounter events such as Messi leading Argentina to win the Copa America, which was Messi's first heavyweight title at the national team level, and finally lost to Messi in the Golden Ball voting with a very small disadvantage, won the second place, and once again missed the Golden Ball Award. After last year's Ballon d'Or, the discussion about who should win the Golden Ball between Lewandowski and Messi has continued until now, and the controversy is relatively large, anyway, Lewandowski actually deserves a golden ball.
And in this year 2022, Lewandowski is still in excellent form, whether it is Bayern in the first half of the year or Barca in the second half, he is very efficient. But the team's results were not good, and Real Madrid's Benzema won the double, and the golden boot also fell on Benzema, and Lewandowski once again missed. However, Lewandowski won the "Best Striker Award" for 2 consecutive years, also known as the "Gaidmueller Award", a consolation award.
(Won the consolation award of "Best Striker" for two consecutive years)
Lewandowski is 34 years old, although there is still a chance to win the Golden Globe in the future, but I have to say that it is getting more and more difficult, and it is too regrettable for Lewandowski to not be able to win the Golden Ball.
IV. Polish superstar
At the national team level, although Lewandowski has only participated in one World Cup in 2018, what is different from other stars is that this World Cup is precisely because of Lewandowski that the Polish team has re-emerged and has the opportunity to win a place in the World Cup. However, in the end, 1-2 failed to qualify from the group, and Lewandowski failed to score, trapped by the overall strength of the Polish team, this World Cup performance is not ideal.
This year, Lewandowski has transferred to FC Barcelona, and is still extremely efficient in scoring goals at Barca, and the sword is not old, and he still plays the role of a scoring machine. And this World Cup is likely to be his last World Cup, although the overall strength of the Polish team is not strong, especially the configuration of the back line is average, but there is the magic goalscorer Lewandowski, and wait and see how far you can go with the Polish team.