He has climbed so many seasons, but others have reached the top of Europe. And now there is finally him. It was enough to look at the relief with which Robert Lewandowski lay on the pitch final bitto understand how much it means to him. What kind of golden balls or golden shoes. They will be there in a year and in five years. And perhaps there will never be such a season in the Champions League. The triple krone is only the second time in Bayern’s history. 120 years of history, great dominance in Germany, eleven times in the European Cup final, and only two triple crowns.
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The first one from 2013 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge compared to the rarest of stamps: – Our Blue Mauritius – he said. In the Bayern Museum on the Allianz Arena, you can sit in a small cinema during normal times, watch and listen to the choir singing about that spring 2013 and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the late Lorin Maazel, wearing a club T-shirt. The first time must remain the most beautiful.
But what Bayern 2020 did to Bayern Jupp Heynckes was in no way inferior. This is the first team to win all matches of the LM season. He has three top scorers, two footballers, has a top scorer and an assist leader (Robert Lewandowski won this qualification together with Angel di Maria). It has its unmistakable, risky style. She had so many heroes in every match that there was no question mark left in her success. Lewandowski did not have to play a big match in the final. He played his usual one, alongside Kylian Mbappe or Neymar, and it was great. But after him, from the quarter-finals with Barcelona, it was clear that it is not about hunting for your own goals, but that everyone should get the cup. And they arrived in style. Manuel Neuer was defending excellently in the semi-finals and the final. Thiago showed how to play under pressure in the final. Joshua Kimmich made the perfect cross. And Kingsley Coman, a Parisian, scored the winning goal for the team that raised him.
Lost summer 2018 – that’s where the road to the European Cup began. Lewandowski understood the most important lesson in time
Lewandowski went to Bayern in 2014 to play in the finals LM many times. Pep Guardiola told the bosses: Thiago or nobody! To win the European Cup with him. Carlo Ancelotti came to correct what Guardiola had failed in the Champions League. Jupp Heynckes corrected after Ancelotti. Niko Kovac was to rebuild. Until Hansi Flick came, corrected it, shifted it and the great game started.
Because you can’t plan to win the Champions League or even play in the final. One can only do everything in his power and then wait: will fate show me and will I be able to help him. This was perhaps the most important lesson that Robert Lewandowski understood in time. Nothing can be done at this level by force. You have to give time to act, wait for the effects. Lewandowski likes chatting about being easy. About the importance of play on the pitch, especially for a striker who lives from fractions of a second and will not make it on time if he is tense. And he had to learn to give himself this slack in building a career. Because it has happened in recent years that he put a burden on his back, which was difficult to walk with later.
If we wanted to analyze his path to this first European Cup from a distance, it did not start either at the beginning of this season or in November, when the team was taken over by Flick. Only after the hard landing in summer 2018. After Senegal, Colombia, misunderstood press conferences, unsuccessful retirement from Bayern. In the summer of 2018, when even he was a bit afraid to leave the house during his vacation in Poland, so as not to hear something unpleasant.
And when he had the right to think: I’m already so close to the top, I’ve tried every way, maybe I’m just not meant to go there. But he chose the wisest path: to calm down the moods, look for small things to improve, keep believing. He stopped refereeing on the pitch, and the referees had been keeping an eye on him for a long time. He stopped leaving Bayern, which was aggravating for both sides. He stopped shifting the world in interviews. If he did speak in public, it was to reach out to consent. He also had very patient bosses.
After a trial of strength in 2018, they forgave everything with the presidents and from then on both sides could always count on each other. They hugged on the podium with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The head of Bayern’s football section also had the right to doubt whether before the impending handover of power Oliverowi Kahnowi will have the opportunity to enjoy the European Cup. They have a beautiful buckle: Rummenigge, Uli Hoeness, now the honorary president. It was Hoeness who first believed that the great Lewandowski from Borussia could be the great Lewandowski from Bayern. It was Rummenigge, after five goals against Wolfsburg, who caught the moment when it had to be confirmed: he is our biggest star before we promote ourselves. They both have a weakness for him, like attackers for the attacker. Even after the famous interview with “Spiegel”, they refrained from punishing. They believed in him when some still thought that Bayern it’s too big for him. They did not stay angry for long when Robert decided that Bayern was getting too small for him. And it’s summer 2020 when everything is just right.
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