Robert Lewandowski(oblation)

Robert Lewandowski born 21 August 1988 is a Polish footballerwho plays as striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the Polish national team.

After being the top scorer in the third and second tiers of Polish football with Znicz Pruszków, he moved to top-flight Lech Poznań, and was the top scorer in the league as they won the 2009–10 Ekstraklasa. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund for a reported €4.5 million, where he won honours including two consecutiveBundesliga titles. Before the start of the 2014 season, he moved to their rivals Bayern Munich.

A full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned over 65 caps and was a member of their team at Euro 2012. With 23 goals, he ranks eighth among their top scorers of all time.

Club career
Early career
Lewandowski started his career at Varsovia, where as a teen he played for seven years. The following year he moved to Delta Warsaw where he finally managed to play in the first team, scoring four goals.

In 2006–07, Lewandowski was the Polish third division's top goal scorer with 15 goals, helping Znicz Pruszków win promotion. The next season he was the top scorer in the Polish second division with 21 goals.

Lech Poznań

In June 2008, Lech Poznań signed Lewandowski from Znicz for 1.5 millionzłotys. Earlier that month, Lewandowski's agent Cezary Kucharski offered him to his former team Sporting Gijón, which had been promoted to the Spanish top league after ten years in the second tier. However, Sporting rejected him.

He made his debut for Lech in July 2008 as a substitute in a first round UEFA Cup qualifier versus Khazar Lenkoran fromAzerbaijan. In that match, he scored the only goal of the match. During his Ekstraklasa debut in the first game of the season in a match against GKS Bełchatów, he scored a heel flick goal just four minutes after coming into the game late second half. In his first season in the Polish top division, he was second in the goal-scoring charts. The next season, he became the top scorer with 18 goals and helped his team win the 2009–10 championship.

Borussia Dortmund
2013–14 season
On 27 July 2013, Lewandowski won the 2013 DFL-Supercup with Dortmund 4–2 against Bayern Munich. He scored his first goal of the season in Dortmund's 4–0 defeat of Augsburg in the club's opening Bundesliga match on 10 August. On 1 November, he scored his only hat-trick of the season in a 6–1 Bundesliga win against VfB Stuttgart.

On 25 February 2014, Lewandowski scored twice in Champions League round-of-16 first-leg against Zenit Saint Petersburg, becoming BVB's overall top scorer in European competition, surpassing Stéphane Chapuisat's 16 goals record. He scored his 100th goal for the club on his 182nd appearance, as Dortmund defeatedVfL Wolfsburg in the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal on 16 April 2014, and revealed a shirt with the number 100 in celebration.

Lewandowski ended the 2013–14 season as the top goalscorer in the Bundesliga with 20 goals. He also scored six goals in the Champions League, as Borussia reached the quarter-finals. During the second leg of the Round-of-16 match between Borussia Dortmund and Zenit St. Petersburg, Lewandowski received a second yellow card which resulted in him being suspended for the first leg of the quarter-final against Real Madrid.

Lewandowski played his final match for Dortmund in the 2014 DFB-Pokal Final against Bayern Munich on 17 May. Manager Jürgen Klopp had excused him from some training ahead of the final due to injury concerns; although Lewandowski played all 120 minutes of the final, Dortmund lost 2–0.

Bayern Munich


In November 2013, Lewandowski confirmed he would sign a pre-contractual agreement for Borussia Dortmund's rivals Bayern Munich which officially happened on 3 January 2014; signing a five-year contract, joining the team at the start of the 2014–15 season. Lewandowski was officially presented as a Bayern Munich player on 9 July 2014.

2014–15 season
Pre–season started on 9 July 2014 at which time he was presented. He made his pre–season debut on 21 July 2014, scoring a goal in the process. He made his first team debut for his new club in a 2–0 loss to Borussia Dortmund in the DFL-Supercup on 13 August 2014. He scored his first goal in a 1–1 draw against Schalke 04 in his second league match on 30 August. On 1 November, in his first league match against Dortmund, Lewandowski scored in a 2–1 win which put Bayern four points clear at the top of the table while leaving his former club in a relegation play-off place.

International career

Lewandowski made three appearances for Poland's U21 team, in friendly matches against England, Belarus and Finland.

His debut for the senior national team came on 10 September 2008, three weeks after his 20th birthday, against San Marino where he came on as a sub and scored one goal. Only Włodzimierz Lubański scored a goal on his debut for the national team at a younger age than Lewandowski, having been 16 at the time.

Playing in Warsaw in the opening match of the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament against Greece, Lewandowski scored the first goal of the competition after an assist from then Dortmund teammate Jakub Błaszczykowski and was named Man of the Match. He played in all three games for Poland in the tournament, as the co-hosts crashed out of the group stage with two points earned.

After his goal at Euro 2012, Lewandowski struggled for goals with the national side scoring just twice – both were penalties in the 5–0 win against San Marino on 26 March 2013 during the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign. Later on in the campaign, on 6 September, he scored the equaliser against Montenegro in a 1–1 home draw.

On 7 September 2014, in Poland's first Euro 2016 qualifier, away against Gibraltar, Lewandowski scored his first international hat-trick, netting four goals in a 7–0 win.

Outside football
Lewandowski was chosen to be on the cover of FIFA 15 Polish version next to Lionel Messi.

Personal life
Lewandowski's father, Krzysztof (died in 1995), was a Polish judo champion, and also played football for Hutnik Warszawa in the second division. His mother, Iwona, is a former volleyball player for AZS Warszawa and later vice-president of Partyzant Leszno. His sister, Milena, also plays volleyball and has represented the U21 national team. His wife, Anna Stachurska, won the bronze medal at the 2009 Karate World Cup.They married on 22 June 2013 in Warsaw.

Lewandowski is a practising Catholic. He met Pope Francis in October 2014 when Bayern Munich visited Vatican City following a 7–1 win over AS Roma.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/