Fabio Capello has slammed Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for failing to attend Monday's The Best Fifa Football Awards.
Former Real Madrid boss Fabio Capello has hit out at Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for their failure to attend Monday night's The Best Fifa Football Awards, branding the pair "disrespectful".
Neither was in London for the event as Luka Modric beat Ronaldo into second place in the race for the Best Men's Player prize, with Messi not even among the finalists.
It is the first time since Kaká claimed the former Fifa World Player of the Year award in 2007 that anyone other than Ronaldo or Messi has scooped one of men's football's chief accolades.
"Ronaldo and Messi's absence is disrespectful to their fellow players, to Fifa and to the football world," Capello told Television Española after the ceremony.
"Maybe they've won too much and dislike losing [too much]. In life you have to know how to win and lose."
Doer
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Fifa is a joke, and Capello is a joker.
Wahnsty
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messi and ronaldo know they will never stay at the top forever, but bringing their dominance to a premature end is exactly what caused them to do this. no player played better than ronaldo and messi in 2018, not even modric. my advice to the captains, coaches and journalists is they should stop allowing sympathy or emotion to take over genuine decisions.
humayonahmed
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Williamkpehe
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This is one of the most contradicting FIFA Award I have ever seen, how you consider Sallah to be one of the three finalists but he couldn't feature in the FIFA pro eleven. given him, the Puskas award was a mere cover up something he didn't deserve. It was good Ronaldo and Messi stay away from the ceremony
godykemanutd
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This Award was a joke, Messi and Ronaldo are getting old and as that, they can not remain at the top forever but denying them their right unfairly just because they have dominated for so long is absurd and disrespectful to them, the football world and the world at large. Imagine Salah who finished third was not in the the best FIFA 11 and his goal against Everton that won the Puska award did not even win the goal of the Month in England and did not win the goal of the year as well. meaning there are other goals that was better than that goal against Everton. Modric won it because he played well in the World Cup what about Mbappe who won the World Cup and also played well? World Cup was just for one Month what about the rest of the 11 months. Salah was in the last three all because of his goals, what about Messi who scored more goals than Salah, Won more trophy. This is the craziest Award i have ever witnessed in my entire life. ending Messi and Ronaldo dominance in this shameful and Capello
Oklahoman
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mosaic is joke of the century hahahahahahah
MrygenSarma
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its nothing but mere politics salah was the hot new player who bagged more goal n had assist den any of the fifapro11.. damn shame dat he wasnt included
Oklahoman
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