Lewandowski cool about being ignored by Messi in FIFA's 2021 Best awards

Robert Lewandowski has no regrets not having received a vote from Lionel Messi for the FIFAs Best male player awards of 2021 While Portuguese superstar Ronaldo placed the Bayern Munich striker on first position in his voting the Argentine striker left him out in his choice for the first threeAfter Messi outpaced the 33yearold Pole in last years Ballon dOr Lewandowski managed to turn things around and won the FIFA award by four votes ahead of Messi and Liverpools Mohammed Salah 9 votes behindYou have to ask him about his voting the Bayern striker said in an interview to Xinhua I think I didnt do anything wrong and gave him reason to be upset aside from maybe sporting reasons It was his decision not to vote for me and I respect that said LewandowskiLewandowski said he is not upset and cant say anything negative about his award rivalAt the Ballon dOr he voted me as the second Now its a different competition Maybe its why I voted him second at the Ballon dOr the 2020 treble winner saidWhile the Ballon dOr is a competition with only journalists voting the Best award is run by half of the voters recruited out of national coaches and international playersLewandowski rated the Best award above the Ballon dOr Awards get important when coaches and players do the main voting the Bayern striker addedThey know what it means to be and stay at a top level the attacker said Awards one wins with his teams support are the most important ones the Polish team captain added A vote like this goes beyond statistics he saidThe Bayern player voted for Chelseas midfielder Jorginho as first followed by Messi and Ronaldo Jorginho scored important goals as a midfield six that means somethingLewandowski praised Ronaldo for delivering the highest level no matter for what club he is playingAfter having scored his 300th goal in the national league the Bayern forward said he is thinking about new recordsBy scoring 41 goals last season the Pole broke the nearly 50yearold national league season record of German icon Gerd Muller 40 season goals 197172 Mullers 365 career goals in the national league seem within reachIts nothing for this season And everything else is a thing of the next years Lewandowski saidThe Pole said there is no need to talk about a contract extension as his current one expires in 2023He also indicated he wont be retiring before the age of 35I do a lot of things to keep at the top but I still discover new things around my body I gained a lot of experience that makes me currently stay in the best shape he saidHe is looking forward to another fruitful season with Bayern If you manage to deliver a satisfying performance on the pitch it doesnt play a role for what club you play he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever