Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski celebrates his second goal during the Fifa Club World Cup semi-final football match against Egypt’s Al-Ahly at the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium in the Qatari city of Ar-Rayyan February 8, 2021.
The honour is conferred on military personnel and civilians for outstanding achievements in their fields. Lewandowski joins the first democratically elected president of Poland Lech Walesa and American President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a recipient. Last week Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to ask that Lewandowski and a Poland team mate be exempt from quarantine rules when re-entering Germany after a World Cup qualifier against England scheduled for March 31 at Wembley Stadium.