Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has successfully dominated out taking part in past the age of 40, admitting he’s nicely conscious that his profession shall be over “quickly”.
Lewandowski turned 36 at first of this season. However whereas he’s very a lot on track for his most prolific marketing campaign since leaving Bayern Munich in 2022, the Pole is life like in regards to the future.
“At my age now, I do know that quickly – two, three years, I do not know precisely – it will likely be achieved, it will likely be completed,” the veteran star defined to Forbes.
Lewandowski, who has a contract till 2026 that may be prolonged as much as 2027, has additionally revealed what is going to make him begin to consider retiring when it will definitely does come.
“I wish to say, and solely me, not anybody else, when the end shall be,” he mentioned. “Once I get up sooner or later and really feel I do not wish to go to the coaching session, that would be the first second to start out fascinated by retiring.”
For now, at the very least, Lewandowski is in nice form and plans to hold on so long as that’s the case.
“Each morning once I’m waking up – and I hope it stays like this – I do not really feel any ache. And I nonetheless have the sensation that I like to go to the coaching session, to the membership,” he mentioned.
Lewandowski has scored 688 senior profession targets for membership and nation since beginning out as a youngster with Znik Pruszkow in Poland’s decrease leagues. He was noticed internationally round 15 years in the past after with high flight Lech Poznan and was infamously near becoming a member of Blackburn Rovers till an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano grounded flights throughout Europe on the important second.
Lewandowski’s profession might need been very totally different had he landed at Ewood Park in 2010, however inside a number of weeks signed for an rising Borussia Dortmund as an alternative.
