Luka Modric won the FIFA Best award for his stellar 2018, but Edinson Cavani does not feel he should claim the Ballon d'Or.
The Ballon d'Or should go to a France player and not favourite Luka Modric, according to Edinson Cavani.
Modric is seen as the frontrunner for the award in what is expected to be the first year since 2007 that either Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo will not claim the prize.
The Real Madrid midfielder played a key role in their third successive Champions League triumph and starred as Croatia reached the final of the World Cup, where they were beaten 4-2 by France.
His exploits saw Modric win the FIFA Best Men's Player award, but Paris Saint-Germain and Uruguay striker Cavani believes Madrid defender Raphael Varane, Atletico Madrid's Antoine Griezmann and his PSG team-mate Kylian Mbappe are all more deserving of the Ballon d'Or after inspiring Les Bleus to glory in Russia.
"Varane may well be there, Griezmann, Mbappe... I think a Frenchman should win, there are other players who could, but it should be a Frenchman, they have won the World Cup," Cavani told RMC.
"Modric has had a great season, but his team-mate Varane won the Champions League and the World Cup, Modric was a finalist and had a great campaign, but Varane deserves it more."
SuuuuCr7
267
Neither deserved it either Messi or Ronaldo deserve it again.
Dikdeknors
195
Luka modric deserve the 2018 balloon d'or because for the past five season in champion league modric has been instrumental in the midfield of both Madrid and the National team He took the national team through the world cup qualifications he managed to get his country to world cup final in Russia although France won the world cup but I believe he deserves the balloon d'or because he was instrumental through the games from the beginning to the final of the world cup in Russia for my own personal point of view Luka modric deserve the balloon d'or because of his performance in the game that my view Augustine sieh Ghana
shashwatchoudhary14
172
Well if we go by the concept of ''Giving Ballon d'Or to the player who has won UCL or WC" then it should be Varane because he has won both but I don't think he deserved it. As we all know Ballon d'Or is an individual prize so it should be based on individual performance and there were 2-3 defenders who performed better than Varane but didn't win WC or UCL, example - Godin, Hummels. Griezmann did nothing special to deserve this award, Modric has had a great season, Mbappe could do lot more than this. It should either be Lionel or Cristiano because they again outperformed all other players by performing brilliantly and they also won La Liga and UCl respectively. It should be Messi because in my opinion he is better but for other people it may be Cristiano but no other player deserve to win the award.