FIFA has officially announced that Croatian star Modric won “The Best” award. It means that he broke Messi and Ronaldo’s monopoly in the last ten years. To some extend, it has opened a new era.
After all, this year’s selection largely means a change in the selection criteria. If it is still based on the personal data recognized by the public in the past, this year’s best will definitely not be won by Modric. Instead, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, who is outstanding in data performance, will continue to win. Actually, when looking at the personal data, Croatian is really far away from Messi and Ronaldo.
However, Modric’s win reflects the grievance of two players, Sneijder and Ribéry. According to this standard, Messi and Ronaldo should be defeated once respectively. Correspondingly, Sneijder and Ribéry should have won a Ballon d’Or award. Both Sneijder and Ribéry performance back then is better than Modric’s performance in this year and led the team better.
2010 Sneijder:
What makes Modric win this year? It is nothing more than that as the core of the team’s organization, he helped Real Madrid win the European Champions League and Croatia become the World Cup runner-up. If talking about data, or outstanding peorformance in critical moment, people may not have many special impressions on him.
But what about Sneijder eight years ago? The Dutch midfielder, like Modric, is also the core of the team’s organization. In the club Inter Milan that year, he led the team to win the Triple Crown, which made Inter Milan the only Italian club winning Triple Crown. He got the all the big titles at club-level. Then, what about the national team? At that time, it happened to be the World Cup year. Sneijder led the Dutch team to pass into the final but unluckily lose to Spain. He himself scored five goals and was one of the most outstanding players in the World Cup.
Playing the similar position on the pitch, Sneijder is better than Modric, regardless of the club honor or the national team performance, but why did he lose to Messi that year? You must know that Messi was almost the same Messi today, outstanding personal data performance but losing the World Cup and the Champions League.
2013 Ribéry
That year is the best period for Ribéry. In that year, the “King of Bayern” was almost omnipotent on the pitch. Whether it was a pass or a shot, he had wonderful performance. Moreover, he led Bayern Munich win five trophies that year, including the Champions League.
Back then, many people thought that Ribéry would win the Ballon d’Or award. But, he lost to C Ronaldo inexplicably. C. Ronaldo didn’t win any trophy that year. The only explanation can be understood as C. Ronaldo’s personal performance is too outstanding. In fact, this year’s C Ronaldo’s performance is still so excellent. Especially in the World Cup group match against Spain, his hat trick is inconceivable and phenomenal. But this year, Modric won the prize, whose personal performance and team honor is not as good as Ribéry.
FIFA’s criteria are too erratic and too casual. If according to this year’s standard, Sneijder and Ribéry were treated unfairly. FIFA owes them a Ballon d’Or award, and Messi and C. Ronaldo should lose one respectively.