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    Making it look easy

    By Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger

    Tuesday, January 13, 2009

    A week ago, there was an irate reader's letter in the Monday edition of Kicker magazine that scolded the publication for naming Franck Ribéry its Man of the Year. The logical choice, said the letter, would have been Ralf Rangnick. Well, I concur with that. In fact, when an Israeli magazine asked me in December to contribute three names to a list of potential Men of the Year from any sport, Rangnick's was among those I submitted. (The other two were Lewis Hamilton and Viswanathan Anand.) My ...

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