The Polish Internet, which is passionately searching for click-provoking incidents, was most enthusiastic about the stage banter of the great Olympic champion Władysław Kozakiewicz after the Gala of Sports Champions and … the absence of Robert Lewandowski in the top ten. Football celebrated its presence on the stage in the most powerful way – after receiving the “super champion” – with a heart-wrenching speech by Jakub Blaszczykowski.
The former captain of the Polish national team, who won the title of “Football of the Year” twice before the “Levi” era, but was in the top ten of the “Plebiscite” only once, appeared at this year's ball for the first time. . And that was after his career ended.
1. Zbigniew Boniek has no illusions about Lewandowski! “punished”
Lewandowski is still playing, he is a three-time winner of the “Sportsman of the Year” award and did not acknowledge the lack of a place in the top ten with the words “le cabaret” as after the announcement in 2021. “France Football” results. He congratulated Iga Švičtek on his victory. But football Poland still asks: what does this vote of the people mean? And after hundreds of posts about the current state of “RL9” in Barcelona and the state of our team, I wonder if this is a vote of no confidence in his captain? Is this affected by the general image crisis of the federation?
In May, Lewandowski won the crown of La Liga's top scorer and the title of Spanish champion, something Barcelona had been waiting for for four years. If Polish fans were to make a choice in the summer, our best player of the last decade would not only be in the top ten, but probably fifth or sixth. The team, despite the disastrous spring, still hoped to go to the Euros, and the entire year 2023 also affected the evaluation of its captain. Waiting for “Levi” in the top ten of the plebiscite was illusory. After all, for perhaps the first time in years, he won't even be named 'Player of the Year' in Piłka Nożna's weekly plebiscite, with the award likely to go to Napoli's Piotr Zielinski.
Perhaps this is a kind of fatigue with Robert's long-term dominance. sadness. Let's agree that Zielo, in addition to going further with his club in the Champions League last season than Lewandowski with Barca (round of 16 against the group), could not save the national team. Even with the captain's armband against Moldova at the PGE National Stadium when Robert had to rest due to injury. Autumn in Naples was also not particularly outstanding in its performance. The idea of not giving this award at all for this year – as a form of rejection – would be inappropriate in my opinion.
There is no point in doing something like that. However, Lewandowski, Zielinski and Przemyslaw Frankowski have done so much that they deserve to be rewarded. And today football is in the shadow of many other disciplines? Paweł Fajdek likes this. Because it's so hard to measure what constitutes greater success? The 1/8 finals of the World Cup in the team, the title of the best scorer of the Western League, the Olympic gold in the technical athletics competitions or four consecutive titles of the best speedway rider in the world? The fans will decide in a plebiscite. We have no right to argue with his opinion.
