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‘Room for more’ as Ronaldo wins another Globe award
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“Don’t worry my friend, I have a lot of space,” Ronaldo, who inspired Real to the Champions League last season, told the show’s host.
“For me it’s a special moment and I feel very happy to receive this award. I have to say thank you to my teammates, to my coach, to Real Madrid.
“It was an amazing year, we won a lot of trophies collective and myself individual, so I’m so glad. Thank you for the people who voted for me — next year, do the same!”
Real were also named best club of the year and Zinedine Zidane was best coach.
“It’s an honour for me and for the club to receive this award,” Zidane told the audience.
“It means things have gone well and worked well.”
In other awards, Francesco Totti and Carles Puyol received player career awards, Marcello Lippi was handed a coaching career award, Spain’s La Liga was best league of the year, and Jorge Mendes named best agent. AFP said when revealing the deal last week.
Keizer only took charge at Ajax last June after the departure of Peter Bosz for Borussia Dortmund.
He was coach for just 174 days and presided over a string of disappointing losses by the Dutch giants.
Not only did they fail to qualify from the preliminary rounds of either the Champions League or the Europa League but also crashed out of the Dutch Cup last week, losing on penalties to FC Twente following a 1-1 draw.
Ajax are currently second in the Dutch league, five points behind PSV Eindhoven.
Assistant coach Dennis Bergkamp was also axed.
Ten Hag played as a midfielder for Ajax between 1989 and 2002 and was voted coach of the year in 2016.
He has also worked as assistant coach at Bayern Munich. AFP