Lucas Vázquez is one of the winners of the Galician Sports Awards 2017, awarded by the General Secretary for Sports in the Galician autonomous government and he will receive the award on 14 May in Pontevedra. The Real Madrid forward has been named the best male Galician sportsman of the last year, in which he contributed to winning the Champions League, the Club World Cup, LaLiga, the European Super Cup and the Spanish Super Cup.



Born in Curtis (La Coruña), Lucas is the first footballer to receive this accolade: "I’m very happy and content for winning this prize, it’s something very important to me and an honour. It’s very nice to be the first football player to win it. I want to thank everyone who voted for me, it’s a privilege. Thanks to my teammates because without them it wouldn’t have been possible".