Rummenigge remembers Lewandowski

Robert Lewandowski is in his second season at FC Barcelona. At first, Pichichi is revealed to decisively collaborate with his 23 goals, which are 33 in the official competition, to return the Liga title to the Barça team. The double winner of the Golden Boot, therefore, fulfilled what he set out to do at the Camp Nou. And, although in his second year as a culé he is having worse scoring production, at 35 years old he can still aim to regain his status as LaLiga’s top scorer. while, At his former club, there are still people talking about him. A legend like Karl Heinz Rummenigge, who like all Bayern legends has no doubts about his club’s players. This time he did it referring, among others, to the current Barça number 9.

The Polish international is on the Olympus of the mythical 9 in Bayern history, at the top of which is Gerd ‘Torpedo’ Muller. But, most likely, then came Lewandowski, who for some reason is seven times top scorer in the Bundesliga and six of them with the red shirt of the Bavarian team, as well as a double winner of the Golden Boot as the best scorer in the European leagues. A total of 344 goals for Bayern justifies that mark.

Criticized how in the summer of 2022 he activated his departure from Munich to Barcelona,​​​​ Lewandowski continues to be in the public opinion regarding Bayern. Another of the club’s historic stars and also one of its senior leaders after hanging up his boots, Karl Heinz Rummenigge still remembers Lewandowski almost two years after his departure. Bayern’s place in the Champions League quarterfinals is at stake tonight in Munich, where they have to overcome a 1-0 defeat against Lazio in Rome, and are on the brink of missing out on the Bundesliga title for the first time. for 12 years. For Rummenigge there is a footballing explanation for all this: the team’s lack of leadership. And that’s when he mentioned Lewandowski. “I’m really in favor of hierarchy. A team with a clear hierarchy will always work. In 2020 we had a higher hierarchy: Manuel Neuer in goal, David Alaba at the back, Thiago Alcántara in midfield, Thomas Müller in midfield offensive and Robert Lewandowski in attack. In my opinion, a big mistake was made by leaving a higher hierarchy unnecessarily,” he stressed. What’s surprising about this matter is that, if we have to stick to numbers, if Bayern can replace anyone well, it’s their center forward: Englishman Harry Kane tops the Bundesliga scoring table with 27 goals in 24 games.

Generational change is one of the keys to Bayern not failing, according to Rummenigge. He gave as an example his own time as a young striker, who arrived in Bayern’s first team just after the most memorable group of stars in the history of the Bavarian club. “I came to Bayern when I was 18 and there were Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller, the bosses on the pitch. Everyone was behind them and it always worked. Whenever we had a functional hierarchy at FC Bayern, we were always successful ,” He insists on the same idea.

On Rummenigge’s reflection, another name associated with FC Barcelona has a memory from ‘Kalle’. “It is a fact that we now often change coaches. In the past, we had moments where continuity was better, because we had coaches that fit better at FC Bayern, like Jupp and Pep. It is not a coincidence that today we are still friends because what bonded us was more than football. I had dinner with Pep almost every week. We drank a nice bottle of red wine and talked about God and the world. We had a great time relationship. There is trust. We need to get back to finding that kind of coach, which will be difficult,” he admitted. Undoubtedly, Guardiola left a greater mark on Bayern’s memory than was said at the time of his departure. It is known that, while a professional is present, the voices of legends like Rummenigge himself, Uli Hoeness or Latthar Matthaus, among others, act like an oracle whose pulse does not tremble to bless or criticize.