Real Madrid star and Ballon d'Or winner Luka Modric has criticised former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi for not attending this year's ceremony.
The two had dominated the award for the past decade, but Modric was the clear favourite for this year's Ballon d'Or.
Neither Messi nor Ronaldo showed up for the ceremony, and that did not sit well with the Croat, as he told Sportske Novosti (h/t Eurosport):
"I cannot say why someone did not attend—that’s their choice. That is logical, is it not?
"It turns out .