After crushing the dominance of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, Luka Modric beats Novak Djokovic and is crowned best athlete of the Balkans

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Croatian Luka Modric was crowned the best Balkan athlete in 2018 on Thursday, becoming the second player to receive the award after Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov was the best player in Europe in 1994.
Medric, winner of the Golden Ball, won the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup with Real Madrid. He helped Croatia qualify for the 2018 World Cup final in Russia and won the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.
The 33-year-old, who scored 75 points in the 46th edition of the Bulgarian press agency survey, surpbaded the world's number 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic, who won the same five-time prize. continued between 2011 and 2015.
Simona Halib of Romania, who finished the year at the top of the league for the second consecutive season, finished third in a referendum organized by state press agencies in the nine Balkan countries.