But this player, who is famous for his positioning, technical prowess and a good finish, does not have the same auxiliary elements as the rest of his competitors in the World Cup in Qatar. After a golden generation known to Polish football, no other model of those historical heroes such as Zbigniew Boniek, who was chosen by King Pele in 2004 in the The 100 best players in the world, who played three consecutive World Cups, and in 2019 had a place in the Italian Football Hall of Fame, being one of the most prominent stars of Juventus.. And do not forget Lato, the 1974 World Cup top scorer (7 goals), as well as Captain Dina, and Lubanovsky, one of the best Poles in the world. History, the greatest coaches in the history of Real Madrid. However, this golden generation faded from its luster ten years before Lewandowski was born.
Poland has only third place in the World Cup record twice: 1974 and 1982, in nine participations in the finals. Against Germany, in addition to Lato winning the top scorer title, the talent Zmuda was named the best young player of the tournament.
Qualification for the World Cup in Qatar was not possible for Poland until after Russia was excluded due to its invasion of Ukraine. Thirty goals scored by the team, compared to eleven in its own net, and finished in second place behind England (24 points against 20).
Germany’s gunners extinguished
The 34-year-old Lewandowski, the historical top scorer for Poland (76 goals in 136 matches), was the top scorer in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, with Saudi Mohammed Al-Sahlawi (16 goals), but he did not score any goal in his first participation in the World Cup, as the Polish team finished with three points from a victory over his counterpart The Japanese, and two losses to Colombia and Senegal, and the Poles were satisfied with two goals against five in their own net.
And before Lewandowski began his competitive career in Qatar with his supposed opponents, the first of whom is Messi, in Poland’s last match in Group C against Argentina, the Arab World Cup had witnessed the Polish champion’s goal against Al-Ahly of Egypt in the 2021 World Club Championship. Lewandowski will not be an “orphan” in Qatar, as He will be supported by some prominent players in European clubs, such as Beszek (Dortmund), Cricho Viak (West Brom), Milek (Napoli), and goalkeeper Cessini (Juventus), knowing that the task will be less difficult against the other teams, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. But the “golden” Lewandowski will be in the 2022 World Cup with a Polish generation of bronze.
And Lewandowski, who deprived the Swedish player Zlatan Ibrahimovic (40 years), from concluding his career in the World Cup in Qatar, erased or almost erased most of the records of the greatest German scorer Gerd Muller (the Gunners), and he continued to break his records until two days before his death by scoring in 16 consecutive matches, and continued to exceed the numbers “The late” in 2022 by scoring 41 goals. The Polish had surpassed the German by scoring 21 goals in only 16 matches, and in the 2020-2021 season he became the first player in the Bundesliga to score 10 goals in 5 games, and in 2016 he became the first player after Muller to win the top scorer title for the second time in three seasons.
Nearly 600 goals and 1000 matches!
Muller is not the only one of the great players in the world, Lewandowski surveyed his records. This player, who won 50 awards and individual titles, equaled in 2022 Cristiano Ronaldo’s record by scoring 9 goals away from home in the Champions League, and surpassed German Fischer, surpassing his number in scoring 268 A perfect hat-trick in the first half. He also surpassed Aubameyang in scoring in the first 11 matches of the German Bundesliga (2019).
The achievements of the Polish champion are not counted, especially in terms of records. The Guinness Book of Records awarded him four certificates: the five fastest goals in any major European league, which he achieved against Wolfsburg in less than nine minutes, the fastest hat-trick in four minutes, and the fastest substitute player to score a goal in Germany and Europe in 2015. Also And also the first player to score four goals in the semi-finals of the European Champions (against Real Madrid 4-1 in the first leg). The first foreign player to score 30 goals in the German League… and the best foreign player in the history of the German League.
And the achievements are endless: the best international scorer in 2015, the Golden Boot award for the best scorer in the world in the 2020-2021 season, the best player in the world (FIFA award) in 2020 and 2021, and the best player in Europe in 2020, one of two players who won the European treble, the league, the cup , Champions League (season 2019-2020) and last but not least, Lewandowski won the German League nine times (7 with Bayern Munich and 2 with Dortmund) and scored 594 goals in his career in 998 matches.
Poland is not likely to go very far in Qatar. It is certain that Lewandowski will compete with the adults for the World Cup stardom.