Robert Lewandowski facts: 10 things you didn’t know about Bayern Munich’s talisman as he faces Liverpool
Robert Lewandowski is still one of the best out-and-out No.9s in Europe and he’ll be looking to shot down Liverpool in their Champions League showdown tonight.The striker has a remarkable record for Bayern Munich – scoring 123 goals in 150 league appearances.Lewandowski is one of the best finishers in EuropeGetty7
Lewandowski is one of the best finishers in Europe
He is also one of the best players to have never lifted the Champions League trophy – scoring 53 goals in 79 appearances in the competition and cruelly finishing as a runner-up to Bayern with Dortmund in 2013.Tonight, he will be hoping he can spearhead his side to victory against Liverpool and ahead of the game, talkSPORT has identified ten things you may not have known about the Polish goal-machine…

10. His talent runs in the blood

Lewandowski isn’t the only sporting talent in his family.His father Krystof was a Judo champion in Poland and also played football for Hutnick Warsaw.While his mother Iwona was a professional volleyball player – a career path which his sister Milena also took.

9. He and his wife are nicknamed the ‘Polish Beckhams’

Lewandowski got married to his wife Anna in 2013 and she is also a famous sportsperson.Anna won a bronze medal for Poland at the Karate World Cup in 2009 and has represented her country in several championships around the world.Their relationship has also drawn lots of attention from the German media, who have labelled them the ‘Polish Beckhams’.Lewandowski with his wife Anna7
Lewandowski with his wife Anna

8. He was given a helping hand by his pals at Dortmund

When Lewandowski joined BVB, his compatriots Lukasz Piszczek and Jakub Blaszczykowski took him under their wing to help him settle at the club.BVB manager Jurgen Klopp then nicknamed Lewandowski’s pals Lolek and Bolek – who are heroes from a famous Polish comic bookLewandowski with Blaszczykowski7
Lewandowski with Blaszczykowski

7. He famously got stuck in a traffic jam

Lewandowski has a huge following and when Dortmund beat Werder Bremen in 2012, he was immediately booked onto a sports programme in Germany.Unfortunately, he got stuck in a traffic jam due to a collapsed bridge – and despite the German channel sending a helicopter to pick him up, he was unable to make it.

6. He was once compared to a tree when scouted as a youngster

Franciszek Smuda, who is now the coach of Polish side Gornik Leczna, once watched Lewandowski in action after he was recommended by a scout.After 15 minutes of action, he was not impressed with the forward’s performance, saying to his scout: “You owe me petrol money. If I wanted to see trees I would have gone to the forest instead.Lewandowski was once compared to a tree by a manager7
Lewandowski was once compared to a tree by a manager

5.He was given the nickname ‘The Body’ by a team-mate

Lewandowki’s former team-mate Nuri Sahin once gave him the nickname ‘The Body’ for his muscular frame.Lewandowski has a muscly frame7
Lewandowski has a muscly frame

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4. He prides himself on his aerial ability

Lewandowski puts his extraordinary feats in the air down to his wife.Anna has helped Robert to be more flexible thank to her career in Karate.In his first friendly for Dortmund he scored a bicycle kick and and he claimed it was due to his training with Anna.

3. He once scored five goals in nine minutes

In 2015, Lewandowski scored five goals in nine minutes against Wolfsburg.He came off the bench at half-time and made an immediate impact – scoring the quickest hat-trick in Bundesliga history followed by the most goals netted in a single league match.

2. He featured on the cover of FIFA 10

Lewandowski featured on the cover of FIFA 10 Poland edition, alongside Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney.Lewandowski on the cover of FIFA 10 Polish edition7
Lewandowski on the cover of FIFA 10 Polish edition

1. A volcano stopped him from going to Blackburn Rovers

Shortly before moving to Dortmund, Lewandowski personally met Sam Allardyce about a potential deal to sign for Blackburn.He was then set to complete a switch to the Premier League side before the Eyjafjallajkull volcano in Iceland erupted in 2010.The volcano formed an ash cloud that heavily disrupted air travel and Lewandowski was unable to travel to England to seal the switch.He subsequently moved to Dortmund and the rest is history.Allardyce wanted to sign Lewandowski when he was at Blackburn7
Allardyce wanted to sign Lewandowski when he was at Blackburn
“I thought Allardyce was a good guy, a very good coach,” Lewandowski once told the Mail“The flight was booked but we couldn’t leave. Did it change my life? Yeah, maybe! If I’d gone there then perhaps I would have stayed. But then I found out about Dortmund, and that was the next step,”

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