Franck Ribéry will not now be awarded with a Bambi. The professional FC Bayern should have insulted after the defeat against Borussia Dortmund, a French journalist and physically attacked. Therefore, we have decided against the award, announced the organising Burda-Verlag.
Originally, Ribéry and his colleague Arjen Robben, who operate under the nickname “Rib and Rob”, and “Robbery”, according to the notification, the prize “for her exceptional performance as one of the most creative players-Duos in the League” should be.
Now it’s from Burda: “such conduct towards the representatives of the media we can not accept as a journalistic house. Sorry, that’s a great athletes like Arjen Robben of this decision is concerned with.”
in the Meantime, has apologized Ribéry for his behavior. In a video message he said: “It was wrong of course, what I have done. It is always difficult after a game, because I was very emotional.” A day earlier, he had apologized personally to the journalist Patrick Guillou.
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