Robert Lewandowski files – world footballer and “goal machine” for the new Bavarians

The change that “made no sense” and the cold war with “Cuba”

The “Lewandowski case” – for a year this person kept German football in suspense. Experts, know-it-alls and self-important people felt idle to speculate, rant and rant about the change of Poland from Borussia Dortmund to FC Bayern, which it felt every day, was imminent. The German football get-together was in top form!

It all started in summer 2012. Dortmund had just left Bayern behind in the Bundesliga and clearly defeated them 5-2 in the 2012 DFB Cup final. The first rumors that Bayern had put out their feelers after the BVB triple shooter in the final, Robert Lewandowski, are loud.

The news magazine FOCUS seems to be well informed in December 2012. Or not? The change was “a done deal,” it said there. The competition from SPIEGEL followed suit in February 2013. “We’re pretty much in agreement with the player. Negotiations with BVB are only now beginning, ”the magazine quoted a Mister X at FC Bayern. Probably a member of the supervisory board, but who wanted to remain anonymous (and also stayed). We all knew anyway …

A little later, after the “attack department”, the most important department at FC Bayern intervened. It’s Karl-Heinz Rummenigge from the “The Open Word” department – and now it’s getting flowery. “The story came about through a Spanish blog. It’s a kind of rumor mill that comes relatively close to the cockroach. We at Bayern Munich are no longer willing to comment on this, ”thunders Killer-Kalle from the Bayern training camp in Doha in Qatar. Nice rumor mill … The steep pass for someone who is indispensable on the German football boulevard: Lothar Matthäus, meanwhile at Sky as an expert, is not only better informed than anyone else about Lewandowski, he also reveals why: “I heard that Lewandowski is in agreement with FC Bayern. My ears now and then listen carefully when people around me are talking. “

Having fallen out of favor with FC Bayern Munich as early as 2002, the record national player receives the answer directly from “Bayern Münhen”. “He has always dealt with women for the past few months. Now he is suddenly discussing new players at Bayern. Apparently he has changed his hunting ground a bit ”, arranges Bavaria President Uli Hoeneß, arranging the Matthew quotes in SPORT1 as smugly as usual.

At this relatively early stage in the Lewandowski debate, there is actually only one missing. The one who can explain the same facts in two sentences, football emperor Franz Anton Beckenbauer. His assessment is the opposite of Bayern’s statements: “A transfer makes little sense to me. Of course I would take Lewandowski, but to give him the prospect that he will play would be difficult. As we know today, the “Kaiser” can also be wrong. Lewandowski was supposed to drive the previous Bayern strikers Mario Mandzukic and Mario Gomez out of Munich … BVB boss Hans-Joachim (“Aki”) Watzke was also mistaken on February 28th, saying that Lewandowski would not prevail against the two Bayern strikers 2013: “Robert is a smart boy, a move to Bayern Munich wouldn’t make any sense, Mario Gomez is there.” Such sentences are always well received by the BVB fan crowd. Not with the Dortmund tour. “At the moment we are being showered with new rumors every hour. The truth content does not increase, ”said BVB sports director Michael Zorc on April 26, 2013 before the CL semifinals against Real Madrid (4: 1, 4 Lewandowski goals for Borussia). Bayern are also going on the offensive. In cooperation with the “Offenes Wort” department, the “Communication” department published a press release on the same day: “Contrary to these reports, FC Bayern has no contract with Robert Lewandowski.” Nice!

In mid-May 2013, Robert Lewandowski no longer wants to deal economically with the truth. “A transfer is not an issue for me at the moment. There are 2 games left. I want to focus on that. I think everything will be clear then, ”says the courted man on Polish television. 9 days later, Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes knocks out one after the Champions League success in Wembley against BVB (2: 1): “… and Robert Lewandowski won’t be long in coming.” In Dortmund, as is so often the case, they don’t know anything about it and put it on the record. Watzke: “I don’t know how close Jupp Heynckes is to the management of FC Bayern. But if Bayern really want Lewandowski, it would be good if we heard about it too. “

But of course! Just one day later, Lewandowski’s advisor at the time, Czesary Kucharsky, contacted the Polish broadcaster TVN 24: “The change is only a matter of a week, 2 or 3 weeks.” His protégé reported this in SPORT BILD on June 5, 2013: “We have been in agreement with the club for some time. I communicated that to those responsible. I am assuming that everything will now be clarified and that I will be able to switch to my dream club this summer. That would be the best for everyone. “

Dortmund have to let Lewandowski go free in the end, but they’ll keep him until 2014. Lewandowski visibly annoyed shortly before his wedding in June 2013: “I think this is not the boss’s final decision and the situation will soon change. (…) For the time being, I’m on vacation, I’m relaxing. I hope that things will move forward soon and that something will change soon. I am not upset about anything. Neither about the upcoming wedding, nor about the transfer. “

“Lewy” against “Cuba” – a duel between the Polish soccer champions – Robert Lewandowski and Jakub ,, Kuba ”Blaszczykowski, this is an episode from the series ,, Pretty best enemies.” You have rushed from success to success with Borussia Dortmund. Together with your national team colleague Lukasz, you made “Piszczo” Piszczek from BVB “Polonia Dortmund” in the “double” season and in 2012 played the EURO in your own country. She couldn’t do all of that.

An anecdote from her time in Dortmund is enough to illustrate the rivalry between the two Polish soccer idols. “Lewy”, “Kuba” and “Piszszo” were supposed to sponsor a baby lion in the Dortmund zoo. A nice PR appointment, animals and children are known to always go. But nothing came of the idyll stilted for the photographers. Lewandowski came too late and at some point Blaszczykowski got tired of it. You could then photograph your Polish team-mate alone, “Kuba” etched and labeled the action with “unprofessional behavior”. “Lewy” was expected only a few minutes later …

“It’s no secret that we’re not on the same wavelength. We have no contact, everyone goes their own way, ”wrote Blaszczykowski in his biography Because. “The characters of the two best football players in Poland this decade are too different,” said DIE WELT in June 2016. Also because it was about the leadership role in the Polish national team. Lewandowski was annoyed that “Cuba” led the “Adler” at home European championships 2012 as captain. Under national coach Adam Nawalka, the newcomer from Munich became the team captain of the Poles. The team even traveled to France for EURO 2016 with two captains, the feuding stars Blaszczykowski and Lewandowski. Right winger “Cuba” has been considered a big loser in this Polish duel since his missed penalty in the 2016 European Championship quarter-finals against Portugal.

A sin of youth – In 2016 Robert Lewandowski published with My real story (Publisher: riva) his biography. A book like this cannot do without a scandalous confession. Even the good Robert has to confess his youthful sins …

Lewandowski, a teenager, likes the dangerous kick, he gives himself chases with the police. “We drove to the police station, and then we went away and they followed us,” writes Lewandowski, who spent many nights in the police station because of playing with fireworks. “Lewy” openly admits: “I was not always just the calm child and the good boy. As a child you sometimes do stupid things. “

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