Robert Lewandowski (born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Lewandowski is the captain of the Poland national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world. He has scored over 500 goals for club and country.
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Robert Lewandowski (born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Lewandowski is the captain of the Poland national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world. He has scored over 500 senior career goals for club and country. He was born in Warsaw and grew up in Leszno, Warsaw West County. In June 2008, Lech Poznań signed Lewandowski from Znicz for 1. 5 million PLN. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund, where he won two consecutive Bundesliga titles and the league’s top goalscorer award. In 2013, he also featured with Dortmund in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final. In 2014, Lewandowski agreed to join Bayern Munich on a free transfer. In Munich, he has won the Bundesliga title in each of his first six seasons. With 63 international goals, he is the all-time top scorer for Poland. He won IFFHS World’s Top International Goal Scorer of the Year Award in 2015. In 2020, he won the UEFA Men’s Player of the year award. He reached the century mark quicker than any other foreign player in the Bundesliga. He also holds four Guinness World Records for the fastest five-goal haul in any major European football league since records have been kept, after scoring five times in nine minutes against Wolfsburg in2015. He made his debut for Lech in July 2008 as a substitute in a first-round UEFA Cup qualifier versus Khazar Lankaran from Azerbaijan.
In his first season in the Polish top division, he was second in the goal-scoring charts. The next season, he became the top scorer with 18 goals and helped the team win the 2009–10 championship. He joined Bundesliga club Dortmund in June 2010, signing a four-year contract with the German club for a reported €4.4 million fee. There was speculation that Lewandowski might move to one of a number of clubs including Blackburn Rovers in 2010, but volcanic clouds caused by the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull prevented the move. In 2012, he moved to Sporting Gijón, which had been promoted to the Spanish top league after ten years in the second tier. Earlier that month, his agent Cezary Kucharski offered him to his former team Sporting. However, Sporting rejected him and he went on to play for Polish side Znicz Pruszków in the Ekstraklasa. In 2015, he signed for German side Bayern Munich in a reported deal worth around €4 million. He has scored over 200 goals in the German league, having reached the 100-goal mark quicker than any otherforeign player. In 2016, he scored five goals in 42 matches for Bayern Munich against Wolfsburg in the German Bundesliga. In 2017, he helped Bayern Munich win the German Cup and the DFB-Pokal.
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