{"id":9649,"date":"2025-06-08T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lewandowski-steps-away-from-poland-goodbye-to-the-national-team-due-to-probierz\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:28:10","slug":"lewandowski-steps-away-from-poland-goodbye-to-the-national-team-due-to-probierz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/lewandowski-steps-away-from-poland-goodbye-to-the-national-team-due-to-probierz\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski Steps Away from Poland: Goodbye to the National Team Due to Probierz?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lewandowski Steps Aside from the Polish National Team While Probierz is in Charge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona&#8217;s star striker, Robert Lewandowski, has announced that he will not play for the Polish national team while Micha\u0142 Probierz remains the coach.<\/p>\n\n\nLewandowski, 36, cited &#8220;physical and mental fatigue&#8221; at the end of a long season with Bar\u00e7a as the reason for not being available for his country during the current international window.\n\n\n<p>As a result, Probierz chose to replace Lewandowski as Poland&#8217;s captain, and Internazionale&#8217;s Piotr Zieli\u0144ski assumed the role.<\/p>\n\n\nLewandowski has subsequently announced his retirement from international football, although he has left open the possibility of a return.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Considering the circumstances and the loss of trust in the coach, I have decided to resign from playing for the Polish national team as long as he remains in charge. I hope to have the opportunity to play again for the best fans in the world.<\/p><cite>Robert Lewandowski<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/_rl9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewandowski&#8217;s social media post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nLewandowski missed key matches at the end of the club season due to a hamstring injury, including the Champions League semi-final against Inter and the Copa del Rey final against Real Madrid.\n\nReturned to play in the last three games of the campaign, scoring two goals as Bar\u00e7a secured LaLiga, but chose not to join Poland for a friendly against Moldova and a World Cup qualifier against Finland this month.\n\n\n<p>This week, Lewandowski told the Polish media that, upon returning from an injury, he informed coach Probierz that he didn&#8217;t feel well physically, but especially mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewandowski has won more matches (158) and scored more goals (85) than anyone in the history of the Polish national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland has won its first two qualifying matches in Group G before Tuesday&#8217;s match against Finland, as it seeks to secure its place in the World Cup in North America next year.<\/p>\n\n\nProbierz has been in charge of the team since 2023, when he replaced his predecessor Fernando Santos after impressing during a short period at the helm of the country&#8217;s under-21 team.\n\nHe led Poland to the Euro 2024 last summer, where they exited the competition in the group stage after failing to win a match.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewandowski Steps Aside from the Polish National Team While Probierz is in Charge Barcelona&#8217;s star striker, Robert Lewandowski, has announced that he will not play for the Polish national team while Micha\u0142 Probierz remains the coach. Lewandowski, 36, cited &#8220;physical and mental fatigue&#8221; at the end of a long season with Bar\u00e7a as the reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3592,3781,3782,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-9649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-lewandowski","9":"tag-poland","10":"tag-probierz","11":"tag-retirement"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}