Lewandowski receives his second Golden Boot

Robert Lewandowski received his second Golden Boot as European top scorer of the 2021-2022 season this Wednesday, reissuing the award that he also won the previous campaign.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
09 November 2022 Wednesday 07:31
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Lewandowski receives his second Golden Boot

Robert Lewandowski received his second Golden Boot as European top scorer of the 2021-2022 season this Wednesday, reissuing the award that he also won the previous campaign. The Pole scored 35 goals (70 points) in the Bundesliga with Bayern and beat Mbappé (28 goals), Immobile (27) and Benzema (27).

The Barcelona striker was accompanied at the Old Fàbrica Damm in the Catalan capital by his wife, the president of the Barcelona team, Joan Laporta, the first team coach, Xavi Hernández, and the technical secretary, Jordi Cruyff, among others. The person in charge of delivering the trophy was former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol.

“I am very happy in Barcelona and also proud. I'm sure next year will be very good. Now I know that Barça is more than a club”, he began in Spanish before switching to English to thank his former Bayern teammates for their help in getting this award and to congratulate himself on the win in Pamplona. “Games like Osasuna or Valencia show our desire to win and how hard we are working to achieve it. In the League we are doing very well while in the Champions League we made some mistakes”.

The Pole also admitted that his signing for Barça was "a real challenge for him" and he believes that his adaptation has been so fast "because of the help from everyone in the locker room."

After picking up the Golden Boot, Lewandowski is already counting down the hours to join his team to play in the World Cup in Qatar. “Argentina and Brazil are my favorites for the World Cup. But it will also depend a lot on the injuries”, predicted the attacker.

Meanwhile, at his side Puyol glossed the figure of the striker. “Lewandowski is a very complete player, very difficult to mark, it would have been very difficult to mark him if I could have played against him. He has a very good shot, very good control, he plays very well with his back. He is a great player, it is lucky to have him at Barcelona, ​​the club did a great job bringing him in under difficult conditions. He has adapted very quickly, I hope that next year he will receive this trophy again”, reflected Puyol.

In his first season as a Barça player, Lewandowski leads the league scorers table with a total of 13 goals and his contribution has been essential for Barça to rise to the lead with 37 points out of 42.

The act took place the day after his expulsion in Pamplona, ​​the second of his career. Lewandowski saw the red card for a double yellow, the first very debatable, and the second impenetrable.

"The second yellow may be correct, the one I don't agree with is the first. Even so, we showed that with one less player we could win the game", explained the Polish striker today after receiving the award.

He has also referred to his gesture when being expelled, touching his nose twice, in a gesture that in Germany means arrogance. Lewandowski has assured that the gesture was directed at Xavi, not the referee, and that it is a story between them, but the referee Gil Manzano included it in the minutes and it could end up carrying more than one match of suspension. "Last week we already talked to Xavi that I should be careful when they give me a yellow card. The gesture was for him, not for the referee. What we said has happened. It's my fault"