Luka Modric won Ballon d'Or 2018 to end 10 years duopoly of Ronaldo and Messi but I amazed was it competition or compensation? Ronaldo, Messi, Salah performed over Modric in club level and there is no doubt. Like every year Ronaldo and Messi scored 50+ goals even they had more assist than Modric. Is Ballon d'Or really for individual performance? Besides using 7 games to determine the best player for the entire year is unfair to those who worked hard to the top.

Luka won this award merely on World Cup performance bases. So I think one of Iniesta or Sniedjer was robbed in 2010 or so? Iniesta scored most important goals in champions league when they got the important goal to draw against Chelsea and go on to win the UCL final against Man U. He also scored the most important goal in World Cup final over the Dutch and was also a euro winner, so it is that the Ballon d'Or is trying now to stop the dominance of 2 great superstars after failing to do so in 2010 and 2013? With due respect to Modric, he reached the world cup final but check the individual stats and you will find Ronaldo, Messi and Salah were way better than him.

First the Uefa POTY award than the Puskas award, then Fifa best award and now Ballon d'Or. The governing bodies of football ate gradually reducing these awards to nothingness. They are just looking for an excuse not to give the awards for deserving one. I am 100% sure they are playing politics, dammit. People are saying a lot about consistency. If scoring 50+ goals and grabbing a 20+ assist every season and winning big trophies for the club every season is not a consistency than what is it? It's alright though. We will see next year. Let's see how they will rob awards again from the deserving one next year because there will no world cup/euro cup in 2019 and I am damn sure Modric won't make it into top 5, even top 10 and we will talk about consistency.

Congratulations Modric. History made many great players failed to put their names in this book just because of lack of sentiment but you won it this year even I believe Ronaldo was a most deserving player for 2018.

Big congratulations to those all haters.