On October 17, 2022, Robert Lewandowski received the first Gerd Müller Trophy delivered by the newspaper L’Équipe within the framework of the Ballon d’Or Gala. That day he gave an interview to the French media outlet published on October 26. He explained his technique as a striker, talked about the scoring instinct and left some headlines: “I am not a machine or an animal but a human being in all its complexity, I have bad days and my problems.” Eleven months, almost a year later, those reflections have been reproduced on various digital media as good as new. This season he scored 2 goals in 4 League games with Barça and 2 goals in 2 games for Poland: 4 goals in 6 games. It’s not that far from the machine.
“I just stick to giving my best in all areas and trying to do something that has never been done before. I also don’t dwell too much on goalless streaks, it’s something that counts for the media and the fans, but I try to see the rest. Sometimes I have to say that it hurts, but that’s not football“he also noticed then.
And he recalled, among other things, that “I’m always hungry. You can have scored, you can have played a great game and you have to lower the tension, but there is always an after and I can’t linger too long .If you stop at ‘I’m the best’ you that it won’t work. When I was young, I got a lot and wasn’t satisfied“.
In his method he explained that “instinct, personality, human nature, everything together makes you the player you are. I am never afraid. I’m not perfect, but fear grips you and I avoid it, the mere idea of having it is a bad start. The main thing is that when everything starts, I am absolutely in the right place and at the right speed. It’s not a superpower, I don’t think you can be born with it, you can have a natural talent, something that makes you different, yes, but the instinct is never acquired. There is no one thing that makes you develop instinct. There are just not easy moments and that’s when you have to figure out how to do something unique and natural. It has eyes in the back of your head. I would say that my instincts are always alert.”
Source: La Verdad
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