THE SPORTING OF GIJÓN DID not CONSIDER IT
The Spanish club that rejected Lewandowski almost 15 years ago
Published:16/09/2022 - 14:58h
Updated:16/09/2022 - 14:58h
By price, or by fault of knowledge, Robert Lewandowski did not finish being footballer of the Sporting of Gijón in the summer of 2008. The then agent of the player offered to the forward to the Spanish club that finished losing a big opportunity
The leading Robert Lewandowski converted the past market of summer in new player of the FC Barcelona. The Pole arrived the Camp Nou after more than a decade in Germany between the Borussia Dortmund and the Bayern Munich to be the '9' of the project of Xavi Hernández and immediately has turned into one of the maximum stars of LaLiga.
This yes, the footballer could play in Spain a lot before having arrived to the Bundesliga. In the year 2008, Cezary Kucharski the previous representative of the forward offered to Lewandowski to the Sporting of Gijón. In that opportunity the Pole played in third division of his country and the operation did not advance more than a simple ofrecimiento to the Spanish group, that in that summer had risen to First after more 10 years of absence.
As it aims 'Sport', Lewandowski and his agent did not receive answer of the Gijón and that footballer finish arriving to Lech Poznan. The Polish group fichó to Lewandowski by almost 400.000 euros, after having marked 21 goals in the 2007/2008 with the Znicz Pruszków, and marked 14 goals in his first season, winning the Glass and the Supercopa of Poland.
In his second and last season in Lech, Lewandowski would mark 18 goals, being the maximum goleador of the championship, and heaving besides the title of the Polish league. In the summer of 2010 would begin his adventure by Germany to the fichar by the Dortmund by 4.5 million euros roughly and with an agreement of 4 years.
A similar episode
Justo before arriving to Germany, Lewandowski and Lech Poznan had arrived to an agreement with the Blackburn Rovers, of the Premier League of England. The two clubs agreed a traspaso by four million euros and the only that was missing was that the player travelled to sign agreement, although the destination, or the climate, did not want that it executed the operation. On 14 April 2010 the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, of Iceland, erupted like consequence of a seismic movement and ash travelled to several kilometres in the atmosphere doing that it decreed the closing of the aerial space largely north of Europe and cancelling the traspaso of Lewandowski in this moment.
