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Robert Lewandowski (born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for FC Barcelona and is the captain of the Poland national team. Having scored over 600 senior career goals for club and country, Lewandowski is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time, as well as one of the most successful players in Bundesliga and Bayern Munich history.
After being the top scorer in the third and second tiers of Polish football with Znicz Pruszków, he moved to top-flight Lech Poznan, helping the team win the 2009-10 Ekstraklasa. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund, where he won honors including two consecutive Bundesliga titles and the league's top goalscorer award. In 2013, he helped Dortmund earn a spot in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final. Prior to the start of the 2014-15 season, Lewandowski agreed to join Dortmund's domestic rivals, Bayern Munich, on a free transfer. In Munich, he won the Bundesliga title in every one of his eight seasons. Lewandowski was integral in Bayern's UEFA Champions League win in 2019-20 as part of a treble. He is one of only two players, alongside Johan Cruyff, to achieve the European treble while being the highest goalscorer in all three competitions, and the first to do it as the sole top scorer. In 2022, he was signed by FC Barcelona, where he won the Supercopa de España, the La Liga title, and the Pichichi Trophy for being the league's top goalscorer, all in his debut season.
Also, as a full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned 142 caps and been a member of their team at the UEFA European Championship in 2012, 2016, and 2020, and the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and 2022. With 79 international goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland and the third overall men's international goalscorer in Europe, only behind Ferenc Puskás (84) and Cristiano Ronaldo (123). He won IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer Award in 2015 and 2021, IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer Award in 2020 and 2021, and IFFHS World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer Award in 2021. He also won the IFFHS World's Best Player in 2020 and 2021 and the European Golden Shoe for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons. Lewandowski has been named the Polish Footballer of the Year a record eleven times and the Polish Sports Personality of the Year three times. Moreover, he has won the Gerd Müller Trophy twice, in 2021 and 2022.
Lewandowski's many accolades include winning the 2020 UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award and the 2020 Best FIFA Men's Player Award, which he retained in 2021. He has been named to the UEFA Team of the Year twice. He is the third-highest goalscorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League. Lewandowski has been named the VDV Bundesliga Player of the Season a record five times. He has scored over 300 goals in the Bundesliga making him the second-highest goalscorer of all time in the league, only behind Gerd Müller's 365 Bundesliga goals. In 2015, Lewandowski was awarded four Guinness World Records after scoring five goals in less than nine minutes against VfL Wolfsburg, the fastest by any player in Bundesliga history as well as any major European football league. Moreover, he has won the Bundesliga Top Scorer Award in seven seasons, most prominently in the 2020-21 Bundesliga where he scored 41 goals in a single campaign, breaking Gerd Müller's previous Bundesliga record of 40 goals, set in 1971-72. On 30 November 2021, he finished second in the Ballon d'Or, just 33 points behind the winner Lionel Messi.
