The huge triumph of Bayern Munich over Lyon 3-0 for the semifinal of the Champions League It meant the passage to the final of the German team, which on Sunday will seek its sixth victory in the maximum European competition at club level. All the focus is on the style of play imposed by the team of Hans-Dieter Flick, but one of the great figures who stands out in the last champion of the German league and the Cup of that country is his forward: Robert Lewandoswki. A scorer who asks Golden Ball and that, in addition, he maintains a strict diet that has improved his performance over the years.
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After the first 11 days of the last Bundesliga, Robert Lewandowski (Warsaw, 31 years old) had 16 goals. Astronomical figures that were rounded with the passage of the games until the general director of the club, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, he expressed in public what no one dared to say.
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“I thought the record of Gerd Müller (40 goals in the 1971-72 German league) was for eternity. But Robert is the first to beat him. “He was close to it, conditioned by an ankle injury that deprived him of playing two games, also of a penalty for accumulating cards.
Thus, he scored 34 goals in 31 games (1.1 on average), and finished second in the race for the Golden Shoe, two behind Immobile (Lazio). Lewandowski has the recipe for goal: extra hours in the gym he has at home, training sessions yoga, and especially the diet that his wife prepares for him Anna Stachurska, nutritionist and karateka professional -two bronze medals (2008 and 2014) and one silver (2012) at the World Cups-, who decided that his meals should start with dessert.
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It was not always so smooth for the striker, who was weak in the beginning, with very thin legs. “When he was driving the ball it looked like it was going to split in half. I told him to eat bacon,” he explains. Krzystof Sikorski, his coach at Legia Warsaw, where he trained before signing for Lech Poznan in 2008. Two years later, he was signed by Dortmund, history repeated itself.
“I expected more game, more goals and that he would hold the contact better. He is not at his level”, resolved Jürgen Klopp, his coach. The bow was getting small and they named it “Chancentod” [mata-ocasiones].
Persistent as he is and conscientious, Lewandowski resisted his fate. And although the first year was one of adaptation, in the second it exploded. Months later, in the sports city of Dortmund they already nicknamed him “The Body”, for his countless hours in the gym.
When he was driving the ball it looked like it was going to split in half. I told him to eat
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And the goals began to fall, until he became five times the top scorer of the Bundesliga with 236 goals in 321 games. “Bufff !! It is very complete, it has plenty of quality and is always in the right place. A real scorer”, he explains Ignacio Camacho, midfielder of Wolfsburg. This is how Achraf Hakimi, Inter’s full back, sees it after playing this season at Dortmund: “He’s really a top player. He’s at a spectacular level and, of course, he has a super developed sense of goal.” There are 53 goals from Lewandowski this year among all competitions (Lionel Messi add 31).
In this ChampionsFor example, he counts 15 goals, four from Cristiano’s historical record. It turns out that in addition to marksmanship, he has resistance – he has only missed 13 games due to injury in Germany-; Top speed (only Coman has exceeded the 33.7 km / h it recorded Lewy, as they know him in the locker room); cold blood from 11 meters because he has only missed four penalties out of 31 that he has taken in his career; and a strict diet. “He eats, sleeps and trains always thinking about his profession,” he said. Pep Guardiola.
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He feeds on the goal and what his wife tells him. “There is always tuna for breakfast, some crazy and very specific things,” he says. Thiago Cionek, Italian Spal player and Lewandowski teammate on the Polish team: “It is a different way of preparing and eating, which was fundamental for him as a sportsman. Even other players on the national team follow his diet. At least five.”
It is a striking diet, because it starts with dessert each meal. Also, avoid all types of gluten and lactose, and take carbohydrates and glucose in the days before the game. And then, in the recovery stage, vegetables and avocados. Also a small portion of chocolate, one of his passions. “But chocolate black, “the player deciphers. And he adds:” Many times I don’t know what he puts on my plate, but it makes me eat things that do me good. “
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