France Football has announced recently that there will be no 2020 Ballon d’Or award. The prestigious prize, awarded annually to the world’s best footballer, will not be held in 2020 because of the “lack of a sufficiently level playing field” caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
That is particularly bad news for Robert Lewandowski who seemed to be a front-runner after bagging 51 club goals for Bayern Munich. (top scorer in Bundesliga (34) in German Cup-DFB Pokal (6), and Champions League so far(11))
Why is this award related to Bayern’s winning the Champions League?
For reasons incomprehensible probably for Lewandowski and for me, it has just been announced that the award will not be granted this year.
Once Lewandowski was dissatisfied with the results of the plebiscite (placed 16 on Ballon d’Or 2016), wrote “le cabaret” on social media.
What can have an impact on motivation to a world-class footballer to play even better, who has been robbed of his dreams?
Lewandowski keeps setting new records in the Bundesliga, but his collection lacks the dreamed triumph in the champions league.
After Liverpool was eliminated from the tournament,
Bayern seems to be a favorite next to Manchester City to win the coronavirus edition of the Champions League.
Lewandowski, if he wants to prove that he is the best football player of the year, has a unique opportunity to do it, because this opportunity might never come again.
Odds for winning Champions League for Bayern are 4.7
In the semi-final, they can play against Manchester City or Juventus.
It could be a good value to be involved and exit a trade before semi-finals.
