Luka Modric has hit out at Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for skipping the Balon d’Or ceremony.
The duopoly of the Argentine and Portuguese superstars in the last decade over the biggest award in football came to an end this year as the Croatian playmaker went onto win it for the first time in his career.
Real Madrid midfielder and Balon d’Or winner Luka Modric has criticised Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for being absent from this year’s award ceremony as none of them was able to get their hands on the coveted trophy. It was the first time in the last ten years that anyone other than Ronaldo or Messi won the Balon d’Or.
However, the absence of both the superstars from the ceremony was not taken in the right spirit by the World Cup 2018 finalist and he went onto take a dig at the players. Modric said, “That is logical, is it not? It turns out these choices and trophies only have value when they get them. It is not fair to their playing colleagues, or to the voters who have nominated them for the past 10 years – nor for football or supporters. But I repeat, everyone behaves the way they think they need to.”
The veteran playmaker had a prolific year, especially at the World Cup 2018. Speaking about the controversy surrounding the 2018 Balon d’Or, the player added, “Here we are talking about seasonal performance, and it probably means that all the coaches, players, football legends and journalists have voted the same. Or are they all mistaken at the same time? If we vote on the quality of the player, then the only thing left is to distribute all the trophies for Messi and Ronaldo as long as they are actively playing and to abandon any vote.”
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