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Zurich (dpa) - Star striker Robert Lewandowski has been elected world footballer after his great year 2020 with triple winner FC Bayern.

The 32-year-old Pole prevailed against the subscription winners Lionel Messi from FC Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus Turin in the vote of the world association FIFA.

The Munich Hansi Flick, on the other hand, missed the freestyle to become the world's best coach - the award went to Liverpool's master coach Jürgen Klopp at the digital gala.

National team captain Manuel Neuer was honored as the best goalkeeper of the year.

Bayern had won the German championship, the DFB Cup and the Champions League title in 2020.

Lewandowski was the top scorer in all three competitions.

The German record champions also triumphed in the national and European Supercup.

Lewandowski achieved a premiere with his brilliant achievements: For the first time, a Bundesliga professional won the prestigious FIFA election as world footballer.

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In the vote, the votes of the national coaches and captains of the national teams of the FIFA member associations as well as selected journalists and fans from around the world were equally decisive.

Elections could be held until December 9th.

The only German title holder remains the record national player Lothar Matthäus from the premiere year 1991, who played for Inter Milan at the time.

Klopp won the coaching title for the second time in a row.

After triumphing in the 2019 Champions League, he led the Reds to their first English championship in 30 years last season.

«We haven't dreamed for 30 years, but we have dreamed for a few.

That it worked out in the summer was absolutely extraordinary, "said the former Bundesliga coach, dressed smartly in a dark suit and added, with a view to the Corona crisis:" We all had a very special year - unfortunately not in a positive way . "

FIFA has named World Coach of the Year since 2010.

Jupp Heynckes (2013) and then world champion trainer Joachim Löw (2014) were able to prevail over Klopp last year.

The best coach was awarded to Sarina Wiegman from the Netherlands, who most recently coached the national team of women footballers in her country and who now works for England.

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Neuer was hooked up in a black suit with a turtleneck and smiled at the camera.

"It's one of the best years of my career, it's great what we've achieved," said the 2014 world champion. He won the award, which was introduced in 2017, for the first time and added, with a view to the final tournament of the premier class in Portugal: "Especially what we're in Made it to Lisbon. "

The Englishwoman Lucy Bronze, who won the Champions League with Olympique Lyon, was voted World Player of the Year.

A German national player did not make it into the top three.

Four triple Bavarians made it into the FIFA world eleven in Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Thiago (now Liverpool FC) and Lewandowski.

The most beautiful goal of the year was scored by former Leverkusen-based Heung-Min Son with his solo run for Tottenham Hotspur against Burnley FC on December 7, 2019.

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