Europe’s leading striker Robert Lewandowski (34, Poland) has completed a medical test and officially became a Spanish football player FC Barcelona.
The Barcelona club announced on their website on the 19th (Korean time) that Lewandowski had passed the medical test and had already joined the squad that was on tour in the United States on the 17th.
“I’m happy to be here,” Lewandowski said at the signing press conference held in Miami, Florida, where the squad will be staying.
Joining Barcelona was not a difficult decision.”
“Barcelona is back.
“I can help Barcelona rise to the top of Europe again,” he said. “It is a new chapter in my life, and it is also a challenge and an opportunity.”
In addition, referring to Barcelona’s ‘legend’ and current team manager Xavi Hernandez, he praised “He was a great player and a person with a great future as a manager”.
Barcelona has been on a pre-season tour in the US since the 16th.
Real Madrid (Spain), Juventus (Italy), Inter Miami, New York Red Bulls (USA) are played in Miami, Las Vegas, and Dallas.
It is not yet known when he will make his debut, but the possibility is raised that he will play in the unofficial ‘El Clasico’ against rival Real Madrid on the 24th.
According to the British daily The Guardian, Barcelona paid a transfer fee of 50 million euros (about 66.7 billion won) to Bayern Munich, a German professional football club, to sign Lewandowski.
European media such as Sky Sports and El Mundo reported that Lewandowski signed a three-year contract with Barcelona until 2025, leaving one year as an option.
Lewandowski, who has played for Bayern Munich since 2014, was named FIFA Player of the Year in 2020 and 2021, and has been the top scorer in the German Bundesliga seven times.
In the 2021-2022 season, he scored a total of 50 goals, including 34 appearances and 35 goals in league matches.
In the 2020-2021 season, he scored 41 goals in the Bundesliga, setting the record for most goals in a season, and scored 312 goals in the Bundesliga, the second most after Gerd Muller (365).
Barcelona, who finished second with 73 points in the La Liga for the 2021-2022 season, laid the foundation for reclaiming the league supremacy for the first time in four years after the 2018-2019 season with the signing of Lewandowski.
In particular, Barcelona were eliminated from the group stage of the UEFA Champions League last season, and the Spanish King’s Cup and the Spanish Cup were all unrelated. .
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