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Brazilian football club Botafogo has named former Udinese midfielder Alberto Valentim as its coach for the remainder of 2018. The 42-year-old replaces Felipe Conceicao, who was sacked on Saturday after just seven matches in charge.

Two-time Brazilian Serie A football champions Botafogo have sacked coach Felipe Conceicao after just seven matches in charge. The 38-year-old guided the team to two wins, three draws and two losses.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Best Player of the Year accolade at the Globe Soccer Awards. Real Madrid's Ronaldo retained the award, making it four wins overall, after helping his club defend the Champions League and win the Liga title. The 32-year-old, who also won his fifth Ballon d'Or, the UEFA Best Player in Europe and FIFA's The Best Award this year. Real were named Club of the Year, with boss Zinedine Zidane collecting the Coach of the Year award. La Liga was voted League of the Year, China coach Marcello Lippi was presented with the Coach Career Award and Roma legend Francesco Totti and ex-Barcelona captain Carles Puyol won the Player Career Award. Other winners included Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone, who picked up the Master Coach Special Award, and Egypt coach Hector Cuper, named Best Arab National Team Coach.

Salah won the African Player of the Year after scoring for Liverpool, AS Roma and Egypt.

To mark the first anniversary of the Chapecoense air disaster, Torino will wear green shirts when they play Atalanta in Serie A on Saturday. Torino will wear green shirts for their Serie A match against Atalanta on Saturday to honour the first anniversary of the Chapecoense air disaster. Last November, a plane carrying the Chapecoense squad and backroom staff crashed en route to the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional, killing 71 people on board.

Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain has had surgery to mend a fracture in his left hand, the Serie A club said on their website (www.juventus.com) on Monday.

Sassuolo boss Cristian Bucchi followed Vincenzo Montella out of the Serie A exit door on Monday and has been replaced by Giuseppe Iachini. Vincenzo Montella was not the only Serie A head coach to find himself out of a job on Monday after Sassuolo sacked boss Cristian Bucchi. Former Sampdoria and Palermo coach Giuseppe Iachini has been brought in as Bucchi's replacement and will address the media on Tuesday.

Italy legend Gianluigi Buffon eased some of his World Cup heartache by winning the Serie A Best Player of the Year award at the Gran Gala del Calcio Awards in Milan. "The failure to participate in the World is the biggest disappointment in my career together with some (lost) Champions league finals," said the 39-year-old Juventus goalkeeper at Monday night's ceremony. Napoli's Maurizio Sarri was named the best coach in the Italian football awards. It is the sixth straight year that a Juventus player has won the award as he follows Andrea Pirlo (2012- 2014), Carlos Tevez (2015) and Leonardo Bonucci (2016). Buffon has said he will retire at the end of this season, unless Juventus win the Champions League title. The Serie A champions play league leaders Napoli on Friday before a crunch Champions League game next week at Olympiakos.

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