Fits you like a glove : Lewandowski gets the Golden Shoe

Christian Seifert was careful. Robert Lewandowskis 41 Bundesliga goals in the season 2020/21, which is maybe a record for eternity, said the DFL managing director on Wednesday, marriage Sports Media editor Jörg Jakob to Poland on behalf of European Sports Media (ESM) Golden shoe for the best European scorer 2020/21 in the FC Bayern Museum in the Allianz Arena handed over. Finally, Seifert knows: Seven goals in the first five games did Lewandowski already shot again.

Lewandowski, this is not only an exception to FC Bayern. He has a superior value for the Bundesliga, his radiance is enormous, Jakob said. FCB President and Laudator Herbert Hainer described him as Perpetuum Mobile of Torshoot . Lewandowski have something unique, something historical managed - and that, though he was missing in five Bundesliga games.

Also this year Lewandowski could again be one of the most serious candidates for the title of the best scorer. Hainer quoted a Sports Media heading: The shoe that fits the biggest only, she was. The golden shoe fits you like a glove.

... but I was so close to it

And Lewandowski? He himself did not believe that he could get the record of Gerd Müller, who allowed him the golden shoe, also because of the injury. But I was so close to it, he thought back then before he was still succeeding. For this he thanked himself with his teammates and his family. I have to say thank you to my wife. She is a big support for me and a motivation when it s a bit worse, said the 33-year-old whose wife Anna was among the guests. He is a wonderful person, athlete, partner, friend and husband, she said, I m so proud of him.

On May 22, he met at the 41th time in the current season. Müller s record, he was cracked. It was a great performance of Gerd Müller, said Lewandowski, who described the time as not as simple. The expectation and pressure, I have never experienced that, I still can not believe it.

Lewandowski is far from the end. We do not think so much about what happened, but about what can happen yet, he said. Whether he will attract the other shoe?

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