Robert Lewandowski, the Polish scoring machine who will face Argentina in the closing of group C.

In front of Qatar World Cup 2022, Robert Lewandowski is preparing to play his second World Cup with the Polish national team, which will be the rival of the Argentine national team in the closing of group C.

The striker surprised the football world in the middle of this year when he asked for the Bayern Monaco to transfer it FC Barcelona less than six months before the start of the World Cup, an atypical tournament that will be played for the first time in history in a Middle Eastern country and between the months of November and December.

After obtaining a difficult ranking at the Qatar World Cup through the playoffs, Polish national team Y Lewandowski will play the second consecutive World Cup, with the aim of leaving behind the ugly image left behind Russia 2018, where she was eliminated in the group stage following two defeats (1-2 against Senegal and 0-3 against Colombia) and a win (1-0 against Japan). Furthermore, the striker did not play a great tournament and said goodbye without scoring a goal.

Robert Lewandowski with the Polish national team

The debut with the national team took place in 2008 in a match against San Marino to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. national team: scored the fastest hat-trick in UEFA match history in 2016 and a year later became Poland’s top scorer in history (50).

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, both the Polish national team as a striker – he did not score any goals – they did not play a good competition, which ended with the elimination in the first round, produced by two defeats (1-2 against Senegal and 0-3 against Colombia) and a victory (1-0 against Japan).

After finishing second in Group I behind England – the rest of the group was completed by Albania, Hungary, Andorra and San Marino- Poland was supposed to play the first round of the playoffs against Russia, but due to the start of the war with Ukraine FIFA has decided to disqualify the Russians and so on Poland enter the decisive match against Sweden, who had just beaten the Czech Republic on 24 March. With a goal of Lewandowski a penalty five minutes into the second half and one from Zielinski towards the end of the game qualified for the Qatar World Cup 2022.

in Qatar, Poland will integrate group C together with Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Mexico and will seek to surpass the mark in Russia. To follow, the complete appointment of the Poles in World Cup 2022:

• Date 1: Poland vs. Mexico, Tuesday, November 22, starting at 1:00 pm (Argentina time) at stadium 974
• Date 2: Poland vs. Saudi Arabia, Saturday 26 November from 10 am Argentine time) at the Education City stadium
• Date 3: Poland vs. Argentina, Wednesday 30 November, starting at 16:00 (Argentine time) at stadium 974

Lewandowski’s beginnings and his move to Borussia Dortmund

His football career began in 2005 and quickly attracted the attention of European scouts after becoming top scorer in the II Liga and I Liga with 15 and 21 goals respectively. He later moved to Lech Poznań, one of Poland’s great clubs, and in his first two seasons in Ekstraklasa (2008-09) he scored 14 and 18 goals, as well as winning the Polish Cup and the Super Cup.

In mid-2010, Germany’s Borussia Dortmund bought his pass for nearly € 5 million, a ridiculous figure considering the sums currently paid for minor league scorers as it was at the time. Lewandowski. His good preseason performances, coupled with an injury to Lucas Barrios that took him off the pitch for several months, meant that Jürgen Klopp used him frequently in his first season at the German club.

His first goal for the club came in the classic win against Schalke 04 and, despite not having recorded a great scoring season, they managed to win the Bundesliga title. The consolidation of him came the following season after obtaining the two-time championship and being the top scorer of the league with 22 goals, as well as scoring a hat-trick in the German Cup final against Bayern Monaco.

Borussia Dortmund became the team of the moment in the 2013 Champions League after knocking out Real Madrid in the semifinals, with a high 4-1 win in which the striker scored all four goals. Despite the 2-1 final loss to Bayern, Lewandowski He finished the competition with 10 goals in 13 games.

Lewandowski: his arrival at Bayern and all his records

After a historic season with Dortmund, the striker surprised everyone by leaving the German team free to join one of the main rivals in the Bundesliga, the Bayern Monaco, then led by Pep Guardiola. His departure was considered a betrayal by the fans of the German team, who gathered in public spaces and near the stadium to burn the striker’s shirt.

His debut came in the defeat against Borussia Dortmund in the German Super Cup final. That slip of the bayern He had fans questioned about his performance against his old club, something that would lag behind over the years and that records would be broken.

One of his most outstanding performances came in September 2015, when his side lost 1-0 to Wolfsburg at half-time. Lewandowski He was part of the substitutes’ bench and entered early in the second half to record not one, but four Guinness World Records. With five goals in just nine minutes, the Pole held the record for fastest hat-trick, poker and re-poker in Bundesliga history, as well as being the player to score the most goals from the bench.

In the bayern It remained eight seasons in which the team took over virtually all competitions in Germany, as well as adding some international titles such as the Champions League and historic performances such as Lionel Messi’s 8-2 against Barcelona.

Following, the titles that Lewandowski in his eight seasons collectively and individually:

• 8 Bundesliga (2015; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022).
• 3 German Cups (2016; 2019; 2020).
• 5 German Super Cups (2016; 2017; 2018; 2020; 2021).
• Champions League 2020.
• European Super Cup 2020.
• Club World Cup 2020.
• On 8 March 2018 he became the foreign top scorer in the entire history of the Bundesliga with 197 goals.
• In 2019 he became the first player in Bundesliga history to score goals in the first nine matches.
• In 2021, after playing the Club World Cup postponed due to the pandemic, he obtained the “Sextet” after winning all the competitions played with Bayern.
• Seven times he was Bundesliga top scorer (2013-14, 2015-16, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22).
• Footballer of the year in Poland from 2011 to 2021.
• 2020 UEFA Champions League top scorer (15 goals).
• 2020 UEFA Champions League best assistant (6 goals).
• Golden shoe 2021.
• World Club Ball 2020.
• Most goals scored in a Bundesliga season (41 goals).
• 4 GWR (Guinness World Record) scoring 5 goals in 9 minutes against Wolfsburg.

In mid-June 2022, the striker exerted great public pressure to join the FC Barcelona Directed by Xavi Hernández. Despite the fact that the negotiation lasted practically for the entire repo market, finally Lewandowski He joined the Spanish team in exchange for almost € 50 million and with a release clause of € 500 million.