{"id":1144,"date":"2025-06-09T17:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:31:17","slug":"lewandowski-to-boycott-poland-under-current-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/lewandowski-to-boycott-poland-under-current-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski to boycott Poland under current coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski said Sunday he would not play for his national team Poland so long as coach Michal Probierz remained in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36-year-old has played 158 times for Poland, scoring 85 goals, but earlier in the day was replaced as team captain by Piotr Zielinski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Taking into account the circumstances and a loss of trust in the coach, I have decided to resign from playing for the Poland national team for as long as he remains in charge,&#8221; Lewandowski said on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the former Bayern Munich centre-forward left the door open for a return. &#8220;I hope I will still have another chance to play again for the best fans in the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probierz has been Poland coach since 2023, and led them to the Euro 2024 finals where they failed to win a game and were eliminated in the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, the Polish Football Association announced on its website the coach&#8217;s decision to replace Lewandowski as skipper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The coach has personally informed Robert Lewandowski, the entire team and the technical staff of his decision,&#8221; the federation said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewandowski is not part of the Polish squad in the current international window. According to Polish news agency PAP, the player asked to be excused to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewandoswki has just won a domestic Spanish treble with his club Barcelona. Poland beat Moldova 2-0 on June 6 in a friendly and faces Finland on Tuesday in Helsinki in Group G of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. With two wins from as many matches, Poland top the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski said Sunday he wou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}