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Robert Lewandowski
Robert Lewandowski (Polish: Robert Lewandowski, pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi]; August 21, 1988 -) is a Polish football player who serves as a forward. He currently plays for the Chicago Fire and the Polish national team and serves as captain. Liwandowski has won the Golden Boot six times. He has led the Polish national team to the World Cup and European Cup finals many times, and is known as the 95 Supreme (scoring five goals in nine minutes in the Bundesliga). He has scored more than 600 goals for all clubs and the national team in his current career, second only to Messi and Ronaldo. Lewandowski made his debut in the Polish league and helped Lichpozna win the Polish League Championship in the 2009/10 season. After that, he moved to neighboring Germany and transferred to the famous Bundesliga club Dortmund where he became famous. He immediately won and defended the Bundesliga title in the 10/11 and 11/12 seasons for the team. In the 12/13 season, he helped the team reach the Europa League final, where they lost to their old domestic rival Bayern Munich. After four years of playing, he switched to rival Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich for free after his contract expired. He won the Bundesliga and Bundesliga marksman awards with both teams. In Bayern Munich's match against Wolfsburg in 2015, Lewandowski came on as a reserve and scored 5 goals in just 9 minutes. He set 4 Guinness world records in the history of the Bundesliga, including the fastest 4 goals in a single game (5 minutes and 42 seconds), the fastest hat trick (3 minutes and 22 seconds), the fastest 5 goals in a single game (8 minutes and 59 seconds), and the most goals scored by a reserve player in a single game (5 goals). He later won the UEFA Champions League with Bayern in the 19/20 season, and won the German Bundesliga top scorer honor six times, second only to the legendary German star "Bomber" Gerd Muller's seven times. In terms of the national team, he led Poland to qualify for the 2016 and 2020 European Championships. In the final week of the European Cup of Nations (Poland has only qualified once in the past several editions of the European Cup), and as the main force, he accompanied Poland to the historic quarterfinals of the event in 2016. Unfortunately, they lost to the current champion Portugal in the 12-yard shootout stage and could not go further. He is currently the captain of the Polish national team. Lewandowski won the Ballon d'Or Award for Best Forward twice in 2020 and 2021, and won the Ballon d'Or Award in 2020. However, unfortunately, the epidemic caused the award ceremony to be suspended and he lost his best chance to win the award. Later, he had to settle for second place in 2021, with 33
- Category
- Athletes
- Nationality
- Poland
- Born
- 1988-08-21
- Wikidata
- Q151269