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The 29-year-old received the awards, which are handed out by the European association of sports journalists (UEPS) and their global counterparts (AIPS), at the Bundesliga champions' Säbener Straße complex on Wednesday afternoon. Manuel Neuer "I’m very grateful for being chosen for these awards, but I couldn’t have done it without my team-mates," said Neuer, who beat tennis stars Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic to the European accolade. The 2014 world champion is only the third footballer after Michel Platini (1984) and Lothar Matthäus (1990) to win the award since its inception in 1983. The Germany international beat Real Madrid star and 2014 Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo to the World Athlete award.

                                 Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was reportedly detained by police on Tuesday morning after he was caught driving without a valid license for a third time in the Spanish Capital. Though there are still sketchy details on what really transpired, should the story prove true, this would be the third time Benzema has been stopped without a license since 2013 and this might translate to a jail-term the striker. The French international forward was driving a white Rolls Royce along the T4 highway near Madrid airport. Benzema was arrested by police officers, and the footballer had a female companion in the car. Apparently, he had not possessed a driving license since 2013 when he was fined 180,000 Euros after been caught by a fixed rader camera traveling at 194.4km per hour in a 100Km per hour zone. Shortly afterwards, he was again driving without a license and did not have he necessary documents in his car to be legally driven in S