IFFHS AWARDS 2021 - LEWANDOWSKI, SIMPLY THE BEST !
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI SIMPLY THE BEST !
For the FIRST TIME in IFFHS HISTORY (1987 – 2021), one player has won 4 individual IFFHS World Awards in the same year !
Robert Lewandowski, Poland’s and FC Bayern München’s Goalscorer, scored a mammoth 69 goals in 2021 across all competitions matching Cristiano Ronaldo’s best year back in 2013 (only Lionel Messi’s 91 goals in 2012 were higher in the History). In fact the netted once every 72 minutes he was on a football pitch.
It was the third consecutive year in which he was European football’s highest goals scorer, hitting 54 in 2019 and 47 in 2020. With13 assists and 69 goals in 59 games, he had a direct hand in a goal at a rate of 1.38 a game in 2021 !
So like in 2020, Robert Lewandowski was also crowned in 2021 as THE WORLD’S BEST PLAYER and THE WORLD’S BEST TOP GOAL SCORER. But he added 2 other Awards this year, THE WORLD’S BEST INTERNATIONAL GOAL SCORER and THE WORLD’S BEST TOP DIVISION GOAL SCORER ! So he won all the 3 WORLD GOAL SCORER AWARDS, it is THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY to see one player realize that !
4 WORLD AWARDS in 2021 – it was the best year in the career of Robert Lewandowski ! Simply THE BEST in 2021 !