Robert Lewandowski gave up playing in the Polish national team. Stories of other great players and their breakups with the frames

It was an earthquake that Polish football has not experienced for years, a drama played in two acts. It was Sunday evening, shortly after 21. The world of great sport was still recovering after Epicki, perhaps the best final in the history of Roland Garros And he was getting ready for the next show, which in The Football League of Nations finals were to be created by the Spaniards and Portuguese.

And then the shock – a message that was hard to believe. By decision of the selector Probierz Lewandowski loses his captain's band Staff for Piotr Zieliński – it was written in a statement connecting us by ball. He was surprised that the footballer who led the team since 2014 was simply degraded. Using an entry in social media. Without giving reasons. Dismay.

And what warmed up to red, it has just arrived. Lewandowski went to the counterattack 40 minutes after the Federation's football declaration. And he didn't take prisoners. He went to the open war with the Przytar, declaring that he would not play in his squad.

Is all this madness and escalation of the conflict to the aftermath Lewandowski's resignation from the June grouping of the team Due to the fatigue of the season? Did the footballer who earned the status of the team legend found out About your degradation by phonedespite the fact that several dozen hours earlier he saw a selector in Chorzów on the occasion of the Polish match with Moldovain which they both said goodbye to Kamil Grosicki? We will discover these backstage for long weeks, and there is no certainty that we will ever know the full picture.

Lewandowski played in the squad 158 times, which set her record. He scored 85 goals. Of course – record. As a captain, he brought his colleagues to the pitch 92 times. No surprise – no one did it more often. In a word – legend.

A legend that may not have a film ending of this story. But it was in the history of the ball that it happened in the case of even larger stars than Lewandowski. Here are the stories that fans ignited the emotions the most.

Leo Messi – a story about frustration

This story cannot be started with anyone other than Leo Messi, perhaps the most outstanding footballer in history. Because although today the Argentinean has in his homeland the status of an absolute hero, a football God, his path to the top was a hassle.