CLEAN SWEEP FOR BAYERN
Unlike some ballots in November, the winner in this race was called long before all the votes had been counted.
To their credit, Bayern Munich, Hansi Flick and Robert Lewandowski made voting for this year’s awards incredibly easy by being quite clearly the best team, manager and player in the world respectively. Their achievements made this year’s results the most comprehensive for a while.
The fact that so many of their other players also picked up votes demonstrates just how good they’ve been, and, in most cases, is testament to Flick’s coaching ability too: under his guidance, Alphonso Davies has gone from a promising young winger to
