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Real Madrid's Luka Modric received the award after leading the club to the Champions League and being named best player of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Modric ended the domination of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi over the past decade.
Valverde told reporters: "I will not talk about the contradictory elements in the award, we congratulate Modric for winning the prize, but Messi's fifth place is ridiculous".
Messi, who has won the award five times, led Barcelona to combine the Spanish league and the King's Cup last season. But his country, Argentina and the World Cup, were excluded from the playoff phase against France, who won the title.
Messi won for the fifth time the Golden Shoe of the top scorer in Europe, a record that only Cristiano Ronaldo equaled.
Modric scored 753 points, followed by Ronaldo with 476 points, Antoine Grizman of Atletico Madrid with 414 points, while Frenchman Kilian Mbabi was fourth with 347 points ahead of Messi, who had 280 points.
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Real Madrid's Luka Modric received the award after leading the club to the Champions League and being named best player of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Modric ended the domination of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi over the past decade.
"I will not talk about the price contradictions, we congratulate Modric after winning the prize, but Messi's fifth place is ridiculous," Valverde told reporters.
Messi, who has won the award five times, led Barcelona to combine the Spanish league and the King's Cup last season. But his country, Argentina and the World Cup, were excluded from the playoff phase against France, who won the title.
Messi won for the fifth time the Golden Shoe of the top scorer in Europe, a record that only Cristiano Ronaldo equaled.
Modric scored 753 points, followed by Ronaldo with 476 points, Antoine Grizman of Atletico Madrid with 414 points, while Frenchman Kilian Mbabi was fourth with 347 points ahead of Messi, who had 280 points.
