Lewandowski has scored more goals against Wolfsburg than any other Bundesliga team.
Robert Lewandowski is also the first men’s winner from a club outside Spain since Ronaldo won the 2008 award as a Manchester United player.
On Thursday, Robert Lewandowski received his career’s greatest individual award, proving that a striker not named Messi or Ronaldo can be elected the best soccer player in the world.
After his 55-goal season lifted Bayern Munich to a sweep of foreign and domestic trophies, Poland’s captain was named the FIFA Best Men’s Player for 2020.
Robert Lewandowski won the best player award during the Best FIFA Football Awards Ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP)
A three-player shortlist that featured Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo topped Lewandowski. Voting was by a worldwide panel of captains and coaches from the national team, plus picked journalists and supporters. Lewandowski scored 52 votes, with Ronaldo in second, 38 Messi in third, 35.
“It’s an incredible feeling,” said Lewandowski, who at age 32 made the shortlist for the first time.
Lewandowski joined Luka Modric, the midfielder of Croatia and Real Madrid who won in 2018, as the only players to refuse victory to both Messi and Ronaldo in the last 13 years.
“I am one of them today,” Lewandowski said in remarks translated from German. “It means that in my life, I have always done the right things.”
On Thursday, Robert Lewandowski received his career’s greatest individual award, proving that a striker not named Messi or Ronaldo can be elected the best soccer player in the world.
After his 55-goal season lifted Bayern Munich to a sweep of foreign and domestic trophies, Poland’s captain was named the FIFA Best Men’s Player for 2020.
A three-player shortlist that featured Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo topped Lewandowski. Voting was by a worldwide panel of captains and coaches from the national team, plus picked journalists and supporters. Lewandowski scored 52 votes, with Ronaldo in second, 38 Messi in third, 35.
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“It’s an incredible feeling,” said Lewandowski, who at age 32 made the shortlist for the first time.
Lewandowski joined Luka Modric, the midfielder of Croatia and Real Madrid who won in 2018, as the only players to refuse victory to both Messi and Ronaldo in the last 13 years.
“I am one of them today,” Lewandowski said in remarks translated from German. “It means that in my life, I have always done the right things.”
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