Ballon d’Or winner Luka Modric has criticised Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for choosing not to attend this month’s ceremony where he was given the award. He said their decision was unfair to fellow players and voters. Croatian captain Modric broke Messi and Ronaldo’s decade-long stranglehold on the prestigious prize last month. He said in […]
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Croatia and Real Madrid’s ace midfielder, Luka Modric broke the Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo ten-year supremacy once again as he clinched the 2018 Ballon d’Or on Monday. Messi and Ronaldo were the two who had won football’s top individual prize for the last 10 years but Modric changed it all this year. He helped Croatia get […]
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Luka Modric ended Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s decade-long domination of football’s individual awards by being crowned FIFA’s best player of the year on Monday. The Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder starred for both club and country as Madrid won a third straight Champions League, and he inspired Croatia to reach the World Cup final […]
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An own goal from Oghenekaro Etebo and a Luka Modric penalty gave former semi-finalists Croatia a 2-0 win over Nigeria in their World Cup Group D opener on Saturday. In Russia’s sleepy European exclave of Kaliningrad — perhaps best known for its nuclear missile sites — the youngsters of Nigeria struggled to get going against […]
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Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric faces up to five years in jail after being charged with perjury. Luka Modric was charged by Croatian prosecutors in connection with his testimony about former Dinamo Zagreb director Zdravko Mamic. Zdravko Mamic has been charged with embezzlement and fraud. Prosecutors allege Modric gave a false statement in June about […]
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