Next honor for the world footballer: Robert Lewandowski from FC Barcelona is awarded the "Golden Shoe" as the top goalscorer in Europe for the second year in a row. The top scorer promises a "very good next year" - and has to thank his Bayern colleagues for the award.
Football star Robert Lewandowski from FC Barcelona has won the "Golden Shoe" for the most successful goalscorer in Europe for the second time in a row. The Polish international won the trophy thanks to the 35 Bundesliga goals he scored in the 2021/2022 season while still in the jersey of his former club FC Bayern Munich. The world footballer had already received this award for 41 goals in the 2020/2021 season last year. In his debut season for Barça, Lewandowski currently has 13 league goals.
The top striker expressed confidence in his future with the Catalans, who have just been eliminated from the Champions League, at the ceremony at the old Estrella Damm brewery in Barcelona. "I'm very proud of the team and I'm sure that next year will be very good," Lewandowski was quoted as saying on the club's website. They play "very well in the league" and will "get even better in the coming months," said the 34-year-old.
In the turbulent 2-1 win at CA Osasuna on Tuesday evening, Lewandowski was sent off for the first time since moving to Spain because of a yellow-red card. "It's very important to work to adapt to a new league and a new team and everyone makes it very easy for me, but I have to keep working," he said. For Lewandowski it was the first dismissal after more than nine and a half years. He last saw the red card in a Borussia Dortmund jersey on February 9, 2013 in the Bundesliga game against Hamburger SV.
In the Primera Divison table, the Catalans, with Europe's highest goalscorer, are now up on 37 points, five more than arch-rivals Real Madrid, who welcome FC Cadiz on Thursday. Of course, Lewandowski also wants to cause a sensation at the World Cup in Qatar: In the group stage with Poland he meets Argentina with superstar Lionel Messi, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. It could be the last World Cup for the goalscorer.
