LEWANDOWSKI ON THE MATCH AGAINST BAYERN, BARCELONA AND HIS LAST TOURNAMENT WITH THE NATIONAL TEAM | INTERVIEW

The most important sports broadcasts are now available. Download the free TVP Sport app. You can find the link in the description. What does the biggest star mean? Currently, the biggest star. It's only about you. Songs are sung about you. You basically joined this club. I have the impression that yes. If someone asked me, I would say yes. Robert Lewandowski is the biggest star today. But what do you think about it? I don't take it that way. The biggest, the smallest, the average. It doesn't matter to me. Of course, it's nice to hear the songs, the support of the fans, the people from all over Barcelona, from the whole club. It gives an additional power, an additional sense of value that I'm joining such a big club and I have not only work to do, but also to be with the person who will have, not to decide, but who will have an impact on the result of the final match. Of course, I wasn't afraid of it. I realized it. It's nice. Not only nice, but I also have a feeling of pride. When I hear these songs, it's something fantastic. I didn't expect it to come so quickly. Did you expect it to click so quickly? I have the impression that you learned to play football in La Masia, not somewhere here in Poland. You look like you've never been there. You look like you've been there from the very beginning. That's how I feel. It definitely helps. Of course, I didn't expect it. I didn't assume that everything could happen so quickly, that I would feel so good in this club. I'm sure I will be able to show my skills and have such an opportunity. But I think it all came together. It came together in time, in how I felt the team, how the team felt me. I think it also has an impact on the fact that it was much easier for me to open up what I have and show what I have the best. The atmosphere in the club and in the team definitely helped me to feel free in it and feel like I've been in it much longer than I am now. That's definitely how it was. What do you expect from AVI? As a leader, I don't want to say you're old, but you're experienced. You have a lot of experience. What do you expect from them on the pitch? You often show your teammates what they should do, what they should do on the pitch. Do you expect them to support you on the pitch? I've never been told that I have to play a role of a translator or a speaker. When I see what's going on I try to give advice and not to wait until the break for the coach to tell me what to do. If I see something on the pitch it can be helpful in the next action. It's not like I tell someone to do something and next time my teammate will see The vision on the pitch helps me to correct a lot of things Of course, when I don't see something I don't expect someone to tell me something. It's a two-sided conversation. The coach expects what we do on the pitch from me. If I make a move or someone else does and I should do it I know I'll do it in a moment or I'll do it differently because my opponent behaves like that. The awareness of the match and the opponent's position helps us to think about the next situation. Who do you communicate with without words and who do you need to work with? To be honest I communicate with a lot of players. I feel a connection with Dembélé, Rafinha, Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres or Pedri or Gaby They are all players with a lot of potential and potential. They are very young but most of them are young guys who are willing to develop and want to go forward. Finding yourself in such an environment makes me happy when I see a smile on their faces when they do it with joy when they approach when they want to benefit and learn from it all the time. I think every week will be beneficial for us. We will understand each other better and play even better as a team not only in offense but also in defense. I see the potential in this team and I see how well the coach does it and how well we prepared during the preparation period. I didn't expect that the preparation period would be so high but I was positively surprised. I thought that in the Spanish league it would be more like football but it turned out that the physical preparation was very good and we did it with a smile on our faces but it was hard in positive terms. We will see the results until the end of the season. One more question about Barcelona and the Champions League. How much did it cost you to play against Bayern Munich? Emotionally? Yes, it was a different game than any other game. Anything else? It's hard to play on a pitch where you played for 8 years where you won everything where you scored a few hundred goals to play against a friend who spent a lot of years with you. I remember that I wanted to play but there were a lot of questions and it was an emotional and difficult challenge for me especially and that's why I didn't consider this game as a sport. In the end, I'm a human being and I had emotions and those emotions were different than in any other game. Maybe it will be better to play on a pitch? I think this game has changed a lot. It summed up my beautiful career in Bayern and probably every next game will be different and easier. I think it was Monachium, Allianz Arena and Bayern that made it a big emotional challenge for me. But I'm sure every next game will be at home and it will be under different emotional conditions. Do you feel happy? Do you feel like this is your home? Yes, I feel very happy I'm very happy where I am, what club I play in, what city I live in. I definitely experience a lot of new, cool, different things not only about football but also about life and what has changed and changes all the time. The weather is great, but with food, as I know you, you don't eat a lot. No, I eat as much as I want and I eat. One last question about the national team. Is the World Cup in Qatar your last championship or is it your last tournament as a Polish national team captain? I haven't thought about it. It should be an answer because if I start to think about it I think we will have problems.