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Zurich (dpa) - champions, DFB Cup winners, Champions League winners.
Top scorer in all three competitions, plus success in the German and European Supercup.
The 2020 world footballer must be Robert Lewandowski.
Actually.
Because in the election of the world association FIFA, the result of which will be announced this Thursday (7 p.m.), it is not always the sporting successes that decide - and that speaks more against the star strikers of FC Bayern Munich.
"If you have scored a lot of goals and won everything, there is probably nobody I can compare myself to," said the 32-year-old from FIFA.
But his rivals, Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus Turin), are the superstars of their generation.
Especially for the millions of fans worldwide, whose votes make up a quarter of the result, the glamor of the long careers of the multiple election winners could have outshone an exceptional year like Lewandowski's.
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His trainer Hansi Flick, the triple coach favorite in the world coach's freestyle, knows how much Lewandowski wants the award.
This is "his dream," said the 55-year-old, who had competed against Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool FC) and Marcelo Bielsa (Leeds United) in the election that ended on December 9th.
«There is no one who deserves it this year.
We would all be happy if the election fell on him on Thursday. "
The national coaches and captains of the 211 national teams as well as selected journalists were also entitled to vote.
The voices of the four groups have the same weight regardless of their size.
"Robert Lewandowski: The scorer", "Cristiano Ronaldo: The regular guest" and "Lionel Messi: The guarantor", wrote FIFA about the three profiles of the finalists.
Ronaldo was eliminated with Juventus in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Messi, whose change request determined the Corona transfer summer, had conceded the humiliating 2: 8 in the quarter-finals against FC Bayern with Barcelona.
"Robert would have deserved it this year," said Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
And Lewandowski said: “It would be a unique feeling and an award for the whole team.
We were the best, there is no doubt about that. "
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The past year had shown that that alone is not enough.
The Dutchman Virgil van Dijk was considered a logical choice after Liverpool's great year with the triumph in the premier class, but then Messi was presented with his sixth award.
Ronaldo, who sometimes didn't even go to the gala with second or third places, is five.
Since 2008 there has only been one other winner of the election, which was organized in various formats: In 2008 Ronaldo's team-mate Luka Modrić (Real Madrid) won.
National goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, alongside the Brazilian Alisson from Liverpool FC and the Slovenian Jan Oblak from Atlético Madrid, can hope for the award as world goalkeeper.
In the women's category, the German national player Dzsenifer Marozsán from Olympique Lyon missed the top three.
Either the former Wolfsburg Pernille Harder from Sweden (Chelsea FC), the English Lucy Bronze from Manchester City or the French Wendie Renard (Olympique Lyon) will be chosen.
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