Lahm named German Footballer of the Year 2017 after retirement

Former Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm has
been named the German Footballer of the Year for
2017.
Lahm retired in May after winning eight Bundesliga
titles, six DFB-Pokal crowns, one Champions
League and the 2014 World Cup in an
extraordinarily distinguished career.
The defender's roll of honour includes being added
to Bayern's Hall of Fame, while he was
voted Footballer of the Year after leading the club
to another league title last season.
German sport journalists voted Lahm the clear
winner of the award, with Real Madrid midfielder
Toni Kroos in second and Borussia Dortmund's 31-
goal Bundesliga top scorer Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang finishing third.
What a great evening! Truly an honor to
receive the "Personal Merit Award of the
Bavarian Minister-President"!
pic.twitter.com/64exzsSRST
— Philipp Lahm (@philipplahm) July 23,
2017
Lahm succeeds his Bayern colleague Jerome
Boateng.in taking his first German Footballer of the
Year award, having previously finished second and
third in the voting.

"It's a real honour and I'm truly pleased with it. I
think the journalists in the vote have watched me
for my entire career,” said Lahm.
"History shows that it is incredibly tough for a
defender to be named Footballer of the Year
because over the course of a year there is normally
always a forward who steals the headlines up
front."
Julian Nagelsmann was awarded the
German Manager of the Year prize after the 30-
year-old led Hoffenheim to Champions League
qualification for the first time in the club's history.
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