Ribery limped off with a foot injury after a second half collision in the 2-1 victory at Parma as his Italian club ended a five-match winless run.
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Fiorentina were left to rue missed chances after holding Juventus to a 0-0 Serie A draw in Florence on Saturday to end the champions’ perfect start to the season.
The German side lost the first leg of their semi-final 2-1 to the reigning European champions, and at the end of the match a number of individuals came onto the field
Ribery finished third with 23.36 per cent of the vote, behind Cristiano Ronaldo (27.99 per cent) and Lionel Messi (24.72 per cent), despite having won the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup with Bayern that year.
Bruno Heiderscheid claims he is owed the figure as commission from Ribery’s £27 million transfer from Marseille to Bayern in 2007.
The defender, who left Ligue 1 side, Monaco, to join Greek outfit, Olympiacos, last month, was left out of France’s World Cup squad and has brought his 10-year international career to an end at the age of 34
Franck Ribéry told German magazine, Kicker: “I want to focus on my family and concentrate on my work at Bayern Munich and make way in the national team for the many young and exciting players
Ronaldo defeated Lionel Messi and Franck Ribery to grab the award