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Real Madrid's Luka Modric won the FIFA Prize for the Best Award 2018, ending Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's position as one of the top ten football players in the world.
The Croatian midfielder won 29% of the vote, ahead of Ronaldo (19%), Mohamed Salah (11.2%), Kylian Mbappe (10%) and Messi (9%).
Modric received the award after a ceremony in London on Monday night.
"This prize is not just mine, it's my team-mates from Real Madrid and Croatia, without my coaches I would not have won this and without my family I would not be the player I am today" 39; hui "Modric.
Ronaldo and Messi had won all the FIFA World Player of the Year awards, renamed FIFA Gold Ball in 2010 and The Best in 2016, since Kaka was victorious.
Modric becomes the first Croatian player to win the prize after an exceptional year for the club and the country.
He played an important role in winning the third title of the Real Madrid Champions League in as many seasons, while he was captain of Croatia for his first World Cup final, winning the ball from Gold of the tournament.
Modric has ousted former teammate Ronaldo and Liverpool player Salah on the list of three finalists, after beating the same pair to win the UEFA Player of the Year award for the season 2017-18.
Ronaldo scored 44 goals in all competitions of his last season for Real Madrid, while Salah scored the same amount for Liverpool in 52 matches.
However, none of their achievements were enough to win the prize.
Congratulations, Luka Modric ?
Winner of #The best FIFA men's 2018 player ?#FIFAFootballAwards pic.twitter.com/D489MswXug– #TheBest (@FIFAcom) September 24, 2018
In addition to the best player award, Salah's curling and southpaw in a match of October 12, 2017 against Everton won the Puskas award for best goal.
The boss of France, Didier Deschamps, won the prize for best manager after leading Blues in their second World Cup title with a 4-2 triumph over Croatia in the July final.
Deschamps' win was the second year in a row that a French coach won the award. Real Madrid's former manager Zinedine Zidane was honored in 2017.
Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois was voted best goalkeeper. The former Chelsea man helped Belgium to qualify for the semi-finals of the World Cup before losing to the future champions of France.
Lyon's Reynald Pedros won the women's coach title of the year, Peru fans won the FIFA trophy, the FIFA fair play was awarded to former striker VVV-Venlo Lennart Thy and the Brazilian for the sixth time.
David De Gea, Dani Alves, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane, Marcelo, Luka Modric, Golo Kante, Eden Hazard, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Cristiano Ronaldo have been nominated for FIFPro World XI.
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