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TWICE IS NICE Robert Lewandowski’s propensity for scoring goals in bunches has led to quite an impressive collection of shiny awards to display in his ever growing trophy case. Most notably, he scooped up his second straight European Golden Shoe award in 2022. The prestigious honor recognizes the continent’s top scorer in all club leagues, and Lewandowski has been in contention regularly, causing heaps of problems for defenders and nightmares for goalkeepers. Riding the momentum of his history-making 41-goal season in 2020–2021 that enabled him to secure his first Golden Shoe, he was equally excellent and similarly unstoppable in 2021–2022 while punching home 35 goals. That output was substantially better than Kylian Mbappé’s 28 tallies and the 27 produced by Karim Benzema and Ciro Immobile. Lewandowski’s scoring-filled season enabled him to join some rather exclusive company. Since 2000 the only other players to pull off the feat of claiming back-to-back Golden Shoe Awards are Arsenal’s Thierry Henry, Lionel Messi of Barcelona, and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo.

Check out some of the goal-scoring exploits of Robert Lewandowski that helped him pick up two straight European Golden Shoe Awards in 2021 and 2022.

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World Class Footballers: Robert Lewandowski