Modric hits out at Ronaldo, Messi

By Daily Sports on December 16, 2018

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric has hit out at players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for not attending award ceremonies when they are not going to win.

Modric, who led Real to their third consecutive Champions League and reached the World Cup final with Croatia in the summer, ended the decade-long Ronaldo-Messi stranglehold on the Ballon d’Or when he won it earlier this month.

But Modric (also the No.1 central midfielder in the ESPN FC 100) was not happy that neither Ronaldo nor Messi made the journey to Paris for the ceremony.

“I cannot speak why someone didn’t turn up at an award ceremony, it’s their choice,” he told Sportske Novosti. “It doesn’t make sense, does it? It seems these votes and awards are only significant when they win it.

“It’s unfair to fellow players and voters who have nominated them in the past 10 years, as well as to football and the fans. However, people will act the way they think they ought to.

“In my opinion, things are very simple: Ronaldo and Messi are phenomena who have been dominant in the past 10 years or so. They’ve been in a league of their own. But we are talking about a season’s accomplishments here and I guess it means something that votes by national team coaches, managers, football legends, journalists and fellow players have produced the same results.”

Modric, fifth in Ballon d’Or polling last year, finished ahead of 2017 winner Ronaldo of Juventus and Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann for this year’s prize, leaving Messi, who was fifth, outside the top three for the first time since 2006. (ESPN)

•Photo shows Luka Modric 

Source Daily Sports

Posted December 16, 2018


 

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