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A VOLCANO PARALYZED HIS ARRIVAL TO ENGLAND

The day Lewandowski was on the verge of playing in the Premier League

Published:18/11/2023 - 18:24h

Updated:18/11/2023 - 19:28h

Lewandowski has forged a career full of triumphs and scoring feats. Since he joined Borussia Dortmund, the Pole has stood out as one of the stars of European football. However, his career was about to take a very different path and end up in the Premier League. Fortunately or unfortunately, the eruption of a volcano thwarted his arrival in England.

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Robert Lewandowski is one of the best forwards of the last years and has been a goleador relentless since it gave the jump to a professional club out of Poland. Although finally it joined to the Borussia Dortmund in 2010, was about to to finish in the Premier League, but an unexpected event changed his course. The eruption of the volcano of Iceland in 2010, with his cloud of ash that covered the sky of Europe and paralysed the aerial traffic, prevented that his signing with the Blackburn concretised . Without knowing it, this circumstance resulted to be one of the most hit decisions of his career, since in Germany was where jumped to the stardom.

"Had the opportunity to join me to the Blackburn Rovers... But it wanted to see how it was the Blackburn, the field of training. First I gathered me with Sam Allardyce. It was in Poland after a party. I thought that it was a good type, a very good trainer. And Allardyce was had to fichar to a young player, thought that it was something new and that it could be something special. It wanted to come to Poland to see me", commented during the concentration with the Polish selection, that empató in front of the Czech Republic and will play be in the Eurocopa in the playoffs.

"There were a lot of offers in which think when I went me of Poznan. I think that it had been well if it had gone to Blackburn... I could not go because of the cloud. It was the volcano. It happened a week and anybody could fly in Europe. The flight was reserved, but could not go out. This fact changed my life. If it had gone to the Blackburn maybe had remained me there...", it admitted the forward of the FC Barcelona.

An admirable career

The course of the destination carried to that Lewy closed his traspaso in this moment with the Borussia Dortmund, where enjoyed of a successful period of four seasons. His stood out exert in this historical club turned it into a stellar signing for the Bayern of Munich, his big rival. It remained several years in the German giant, accumulating an impressive list of winners that includes 8 titles of league, 3 Glasses of Germany, 5 Supercopas of Germany, a Champions League, a Supercopa of Europe and a World-wide of Clubs. Besides, it turned into the maximum second goleador of the history of the Bundesliga with 312 targets.

After reaching the peak of the attainments in the Bundesliga, the ariete gave the jump to the Barcelona. In his first season like member of the team culé, the Pole left a footprint imborrable when marking 33 goals, what cost him to carry the title of 'pichichi' in LaLiga 22/23. It turned into a fundamental piece in the diagram of Xavi during the past campaign, exerting a vital paper in the achievement of the title of league and of the Supercopa of Spain. Besides, in what it goes of season already accumulates 8 so many in 14 parties. And it is that, dondequiera that goes, the '9' triumph, and his instinct goleador always accompanies it.