The story between Robert Lewandowski and Poland had turned to vinegar. Damaged by his captain's armband by former coach Michal Probierz, the Barça scorer, feeling betrayed, had slammed the selection door. A media campaign of rare violence followed, where legends and teammates had publicly lynched it. Isolated, criticized, the top scorer in the history of the country seemed to have definitively turned the page. But the departure of Probierz and the arrival of a new coach have changed everything.
“It was a mistake to remove the armband from him”
The new boss of the selection, Jan Urban, has decided to make a clean sweep of the past. And he didn't chew his words. “For me, the former coach made a mistake by removing the captain's armband”, he admitted without detour. A statement that sounds like a total disavowal of the policy of his predecessor and a very clear hand -out hand to the Barcelona striker. He broke the nail while sweeping criticism of the player's age: “Age? Sorry, but the figures he displays are excellent, and he does it in the Spanish championship, not in Saudi Arabia. »»
This public culpa mea is spectacular. It aims to repair a broken relationship and recognize the injustice suffered by Lewandowski. Jan Urban says it clearly: “Robert is a very important figure for our national team”. The message has passed: he wants his return, and he wants it as a leader. No more humiliation time, make way for rehabilitation.
After humiliation, the time of redemption for Lewandowski
Lewandowski, a return as a captain?
After being treated as “idiot” by the country's icons and released by a cloakroom who would have “applauded” his departure, Lewandowski sees the situation turning completely. The change of coach has redistributed all the cards. Jan Urban is not content to want to bring him back, he seems ready to give him back his status and his armband. It is a real reconquest operation that is launched.
This strong position of the new coach changes everything. It ends the period of crisis and opens the door to a return to grace of the child prodigy. After the storm, the time of appeasement has come. Robert Lewandowski, who has never stopped performing with Barça, now has every reason to reconsider his international future. Poland needs its scorer, and its new coach is determined to let him know.
