Robert Lewandowski will lead the Polish team ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. Czeslaw Michniewicz has announced this Friday the list of the 26 summoned who will travel shortly to the emirate. Much of the options of a team that appears in the group of Leo Messi's Argentina (which he sees among the favorites), Mexico and Saudi Arabia will depend on the inspiration of the Barcelona striker.
The winner of the 2022 Golden Boot will play his second World Cup date after participating in Russia 2018. On that occasion his team passed out of the group stage and could not debut as a scorer in a World Cup. He had seen the door in two European Championships, but his numbers in the big tournaments (two goals) leave a lot to be desired.
For Lewandowski it will be very important to start off on the right foot. "The first game will be super important against Mexico because the atmosphere and the attitude always depends on the first day and how the tournament goes depends on your confidence. I hope we can win, which is important, but we know it's difficult, I hope we are ready to be up to the task," he told the Spanish media on Wednesday. Regardless of where he goes, this 20222 he will not play with Barça again (on December 31 he had left with Espanyol) having been sent off on the last day at El Sadar.
In addition to the one from Warsaw, there are already five Blaugrana first team players confirmed for Qatar: Marc André Ter Stegen (Germany), Andreas Christensen (Denmark), Raphinha (Brazil), Jules Koundé (France) and Ousmane Dembélé (France). There is also another Blaugrana who will be in Qatar. This is Ez Abde, who debuted with the first team last season and in the current one he plays on loan at Osasuna. The skilled winger will finally represent Morocco after he rejected the call to play in the African Cup in early January this year, thinking that he might have more options to play in the red if he continued to enjoy opportunities at Barça.
In addition to those mentioned, it is expected that in the next few hours more Barça players will join the list, such as Memphis Depay and Frenkie de Jong (Netherlands) and the Spaniards Eric Garcia, Pedri and Gavi. Luis Enrique will give the list this Thursday in which Jordi Alba, Marcos Alonso or Alejandro Balde could also be.
Another of those mentioned could be Ronald Araújo (Uruguay). In the case of the injured central defender, absent since the last national team break at the end of September, it will have to be seen if he will have minutes after he decided to have surgery in Finland on his right thigh, which in principle had him out for two months.
