I normally see the likes of Ronaldo, 2013 or Andriy Shevchenko, 2004 are rated as the most underdeserving Ballon dor winners.
I normally see the likes of Ronaldo, 2013 or Andriy Shevchenko, 2004 are rated as the most underdeserving Ballon dor winners.
lol
He won the Champions League third year in a row 2018. Two months later he carried Croatia to the WC Final while stomping Argentina on their way there. Player of the Tournament and he is one of the most undeserved Ballon d’or Winners!?
If I spent the Rest of the day on the Internet i am sure I won’t find a more ridiculous take than this.
But he wasn’t the best player in the world that year? Even in the world cup he got player of the tournament but Hazard was the best player. And just because someone doesn’t think he should’ve got the Ballon D’or doesn’t mean they’re shitting on Modric or think he isn’t food. You said it yourself, won the Champions League a third year in a row. It felt like an appreciation award for everything he’d achieved in recent years rather than just that season. You shouldn’t be talking about what happened the season before or two seasons ago in a Ballon D’or discussions.
Hazard was the best player? Lol
Why should trophies, aka team achievements count for individual awards? For me it’s not really an argument
The reason I agree with u/LordXavier77 is that in all the Messi/Ronaldo years, there have been better players than Modric. Xavi+Iniesta just mention the most obvious, both had better years throughout that period, than Modric did in 2018. Both in terms of individual perfomances and team-trophies. So it was political that they decided that year to exlcude Messi/Ronaldo - it would have been more deserving at many other years to give to others, for instance Iniesta in 2010, just to name the for me most obvious. They gave it to Modric because he was the best for Croatia which were the biggest overachievers at that WC. Nothing else.
In regards to the CL 2018 win, which is the main other merit mentioned besides the good Croation WC; in the whole campaign he scored once and assisted once. 0 of them where in 2018 (all the later stages). He had Casemiro and Kroos to handle the defensive/box-box duties and his main role were creating chances. He was good. But not french baloon good. In that campaign Kroos, Ramos and even Ronaldo were better. And in the league Kroos was a monster. It just seems silly that they almost solely give the trophy to the best player at the WC in WC years - there’s another throphy for that!
Modric did not “carry” Croatia lol that’s insane. Great player but people are treating Croatia NT like they are San Marino.
Perisic, rakitic, rebic, mandzukic, subasic, brozovic etc all good players.