World Footballer 2018: Modric pushes Ronaldo off the throne

The Real Madrid player beat superstar Cristiano Ronaldo (33/Juventus Turin) and the Egyptian Mohamed Salah (26/Liverpool FC) in the vote by the world association FIFA, as he did in the election for Europe's Footballer of the Year. In the past ten years, Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have each received the award five times.

Congratulations, Luka Modric 👑 winner of #TheBest FIFA Men's Player 2018 🏆 #FIFAFootballAwards pic.twitter.com/D489MswXug

— FIFA (@FIFAcom) September 24, 2018

“It's a great honor and a great feeling,” said Modric: “This award doesn't belong to me alone, but also to my teammates from Real Madrid and the national team.” Second-placed Ronaldo, like four weeks earlier, had the same award at the counterpart of the European umbrella organization UEFA did not take part in the event in Monaco.

Modric won the Champions League for the third time in a row with Real alongside Ronaldo last year. At the World Cup in Russia he led Croatia as captain and playmaker to the final, which they lost to France. Nevertheless, the midfielder was subsequently voted the best player of the World Cup finals. The other awards Most beautiful goal Mohamed Salah received the Puskas Prize for the most beautiful goal of the year for his dream goal in December 2017 against Everton FC. The online vote, in which over 500.000 fans took part, took into account hits between July 3, 2017 and July 15, 2018.

coach of the year The world champion coach is also the world coach: France's national coach Didier Deschamps prevailed in the election, which has been held since 2010, against Zlatko Dalic, the national coach of the defeated World Cup final opponents Croatia, and last year's winner Zinedine Zidane.

Best Goalkeeper The Belgian Thibaut Courtois was chosen as the best goalkeeper. The 26-year-old World Cup third-place finisher, who moved from Chelsea to Real Madrid in the summer, had already been awarded the Golden Glove at the finals in Russia.

Best player The Brazilian Marta was voted world footballer of the year for the sixth time.

The world selection Goal: David de Gea (Spain) Defense: Dani Alves (Brazil), Raphael Varane (France), Sergio Ramos (Spain) Marcelo (Brazil) Midfield: Luka Modric (Croatia), N'Golo Kante (France), Eden Hazard (Belgium) Attack: Lionel Messi (Argentina), Kylian Mbappe (France), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

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World Footballer 2018: Modric pushes Ronaldo off the throne

After ten years of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, another star is once again named the best in his profession: the Croatian Luka Modric.

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