'They made me feel like a king!' Ballon d'Or giants honour Ricksen
January 15 – There was a touching and humbling backstage aside at the Ballon D'Or Awards earlier this week when Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar paid tribute to former Glasgow Rangers captain and Dutch international Fernando Ricksen.
When Ricksen entered the exclusive player's lounge at the Ballon D'Or award ceremony in Zürich the whole room stood up for him. The silence only lasted a moment, while the world's most famous faces in football were recovering from the obvious surprise to find someone among them, a footballer among footballers, of course, but one who has been sentenced to death by an incurable disease.
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