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Whether Robert Lewandowski can become a world footballer


Spoiled for choice: Robert Lewandowski and the chance to become world footballer of the year.
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The title of world footballer is a prestige object for professional footballers. This year Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski wants to beat the permanent winners Messi and Ronaldo. But what choice at all?

Dhe world footballer: king of the footballers, prince of the football world, best ball kicker on the planet … being important is part of the business. And the title, which is awarded to the supposedly outstanding player of the season every year, is always prestigious. Whoever wears it, can be sure that it will be given the appropriate rating at least once for at least twelve months in every report, text and television contribution. After all, sports journalism loves synonyms more than footballers love their phrase from game-to-game. When Messi shoots a hat trick, “the world footballer” always leads his team to victory. At least until Cristiano Ronaldo takes him off the throne again.

And because for the past twelve years only those two super kickers have been taking control of each other – only interrupted in 2018 by Croatian Luka Modric – it is understandable that Munich is currently a bit hyperventilated. After all, given Robert Lewandowski’s splendidly filled goal account, there are good chances of knowing the current world footballer for the first time ever in your own ranks.

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