In Munich’s narrow victory in Frankfurt, Bayern star Robert Lewandowski not only wore the captain’s armband, but also the Ukraine armband. After the game, he explained how it came about.
Bayern Munich substitute captain Robert Lewandowski has explained his decision to play with the Ukrainian armband. After the Munich team’s narrow victory in Frankfurt, the Polish international said: “I decided this morning to wear the Ukrainian armband because what is currently happening in Ukraine is unacceptable for the whole world,” he said 33-year-old in the after-match interview with Sky reporter Patrick Wasserziehr.
Lewandowski continued: “We have to support the whole of Ukraine. I didn’t think something like this could happen. It hurts.” On Friday he spoke to a player from the Polish national team (presumably Tomasz Kedziora, ed.) who is under contract with Dynamo Kiev and is currently still there. For him, the situation is “dramatic,” said Lewandowski.
“I think you can’t take sport out of politics. I can’t imagine being on the pitch against Russia in a month and forgetting what’s going on. That’s unacceptable.”
Lewandowski had already positioned himself clearly for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine before the game. He supports his home association’s announcement that it will not play the World Cup playoff game against Russia, which is scheduled for late March (read more on this here). The fact that the Russian players can’t do anything for the war doesn’t change that.