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Liverpool manager 52-year-old Jurgen Klopp beat Tottenham's Mauricio Pochettino and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola to win the award for Best Men's coach at the FIFA The Best Awards in Milan this evening. Liverpool won the Champions League and came second in the Premier League last season, recording a tally of 97 points.  Jurgen Klopp made a heart-warming announcement upon accepting his award. He announced that he just joined the Common Goal Initiative set up by Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata. Joining CGI implies that 1% of his salary would be channeled to the charity which pledges to "generate social change and improve lives. Wow. It’s quite heavy! I have to say thank you to a lot of people, start with my family sitting at home watching. Nobody would have expected this 20 years ago, five years ago, four years ago. Mauricio, I won that game, that’s why I’m here not you. That’s just how football is. I say thank you to my oustanding club, LFC. Whoev...

10 candidates have been shortlisted by FIFA for this year's Puskas Award. The Puskas Award is bestowed on the most beautiful goal scored in the calendar year. Liverpool talisman Mohamed Salah won the 2018 edition of the award for his virtuoso goal against Everton in the Premier League. A fan vote, which ends on September 1, will decide on the goals that make the top three. A panel of FIFA legends will them decide upon the overall winner from the final three.  Messi's outrageous chip against Real Betis in La Liga in March is among the nominated goals. Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo however didn't make the cut. Africa is represented by Cameroon's Ajara Nchout. You can vote your favorite goal here . The full list of nominees: ·          Billie Simpson  (Northern Ireland) - Sion Swifts Ladies vs Cliftonville Ladies (9 August 2018) ·          Fabio Quagliarella  (Italy) - Sampdor...

To Cristiano Ronaldo, the overhead bicycle kick he scored for Real Madrid against his current club Juventus, in the past Champions League, was better than Mohamed Salah's Premier League goal which won the FIFA goal of the year award (Puskas). Salah's fine curling strike against Everton in December controversially won him the award, beating Ronaldo's bicycle kick, Lionel Messi's amazing World Cup goal against Nigeria, and Gareth Bale's stunning overhead goal against Liverpool in the 2017/2018 Champions League final. Ronaldo scored his acrobatic goal in the Champions League quarter-finals and joined Juventus a few months later. Gareth Bale's goal against Liverpool in the Champions League final The 33-year-old five time Ballon d'Or winner who wasn't in attendance at the FIFA Best Gala took to Instagram to speak his mind on the FIFA Best awards five days after the ceremony. He told his 142 million Instagram followers: " Salah, it was...