Robert Lewandowski in the summer season of 2008 he has already received the title of king of marksmen II and III League. Ekstraklasa’s greatest clubs started off the fight for the 20-year-old striker. As you know, this competition was gained by Lech, but Lewandowski could go to Legia Warszawa. By choice of the then sporting director, Mirosław Trzeciak, the Warsaw club desired to guess on Mikel Arruabarrena, a sniper with expertise in La Liga.
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“You can offer Lewandowski, we have Arruabarrena.” Yrs afterwards, the Spaniard laughs at the Legion’s final decision
“You can sell Lewandowski, we have Arruabarrena” – stated Trzeciak later, and these terms have already gone down in the heritage of Polish soccer. Arruabarrena turned out to be a fully skipped transfer. He has only performed a several video games in the Legia and has not managed to score even a target. Just after 6 months, he packed his bags and returned house. Lewandowski, on the other hand, as is well identified, turned a person of the adhering to a long time of the most effective footballers in the entire world.
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Today the Polish representative is an FC Barcelona player and has just scored his 1st goals in La Liga (two versus Authentic Sociedad). On the event of Lewandowski’s go to Spain, “Przegląd Sportowy” interviewed a footballer who need to have been superior than him in 2008. Mikel Arruabarrena honestly shared what he considered of that decision by the Legia director.
– I laugh each time I keep in mind it. I just giggle at it. It is the truth. It really is an anecdote that helps make me smile, the Spaniard claimed truthfully.
Then why Legion Do you desire a striker with number of ambitions in La Liga, fairly than a soaring star of Polish soccer? – Possibly Legia bet on me mainly because I was older and experienced far more encounter. Also, very good references have been supplied to me by Inaki Astiz, with whom I played earlier (in the Osasuna Pamplona reserves – ed). Looking again, it is acknowledged that the Legia’s decision was incorrect. The club could have recruited a footballer who would afterwards develop into just one of the best strikers in the environment. Only then did no just one think Lewandowski would create so considerably. Now it is straightforward to say that a miscalculation was built. Just after the point, all people is smart – the 39-yr-previous thinks.
Arruabarrena confirmed excellent class when he talked about Lewandowski, as nicely as humility when he assessed his failed episode in Legia Warszawa. Right now there is no doubt that in 2008 the younger Pole was the best player.
– After signing the deal with Lech, he immediately discovered himself in a new natural environment and started out scoring goals. And I will not even know if I played four official matches at Legia (there have been 15 in all competitions – ed). That’s why I can not say I was far better than Lewandowski. At some point, every of us went our possess way. I was not up to it then, allow by yourself the pursuing several years. Rather simply, Legia did the exact same. Lewandowski was just climbing, I had a weak 6 months. It is really a sad story for Legia, no just one has any uncertainties about it. In particular that two yrs before she experienced supplied up herself – summed up Arruabarrena.
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