Yes, absolutely. In 2018 this man lead a country with a population of 4 million people to the world cup final and won the UCL as one of the top 3 players in the competition, plus he was the best midfielder in the world at the time. Of course you can make a good case for Ronaldo as well that season but goals aren't everything, Zidane for example was the best player in the world and the man barely scored goals because he was a midfielder. In terms of achievements and performance Modric 100% deserved it imo.
he was alright at madrid I watched his whole campaign and croatia wasn't just modric they had a golden generation of players at that time only incredible performance that I remember from Modric was against argentina that year. Ronaldo was consistently the best player in the world in 2017-2018 objectively he had the stats, was clutch, and performed when it mattered being key in madrid winning 4 out of 6 titles he was even good in portugal that wc just the team didn't help still though scored a hat trick against spain I seriously don't get how Modric won it yes he was a good midfielder but Ronaldo just did so much more and was more consistent.
This is delusion and or revisionism. Modric did not deserve it whatsoever. He was good throughout the year but nowhere near Ballon D'or winning level. I saw almost all Madrid games that season. At no point in that year was Modric even considered a top Ballon D'or contender until the WC (which wasn't an elite campaign either). He won due to outside politics not because of actual performance.
@@20SilverTeeth so modric was not the main reason nfor them in the final bro ronaldo scored a once in a lifetime hatrick in the world cup even messi couldnt do that
@@saimaanasraidu750 Messi won the World Cup as the best player in the tournament. In fact Messi has like 4 international player of the tournaments unlike Ronaldo who has ZERO. 😭
It's not just world cup. All of these mentions are attacking minded players. Even iniesta who was a fellow midfielder. Modric does the dirty work Think about it, goals happen like 1% of the game. The other 89 minutes who is doing the work. Spoiler - it's not the Messi/Ronaldo, it's the Modric's, it's the Camavingas, it's the Rodris, it's the Declan Rice's. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THIS GUY GETTING even quarter of the goals/assists of Messi/Ronaldo, but let them leave the team first, you'll see the difference
Either way Modrid didn't deserve it, other players did better. In terms of performaces in their role, Modrid didn't do anything outstanding in terms of long balls completed, xG, xA, crosses, tackles won, ball retention. He did the same shit he did the year before, only thing was the world cup of which they didn't get far coz of him but coz they had a solid team with chemistry
Cmon guys you can’t say vini doesn’t deserve the ballon Dor. Did he have a lackluster Copa… yes… but that’s completely invalidating what he did in the champions league. In the champions league… he’s was THE player of the tournament. He won them the whole thing. When you ask yourself, who was the best player of last season…. Overalll it was Vini. Bellingham had the first half but gassed out in the second. He also didn’t play too well for the euros besides the bicycle kick & Rodri only played well in the euros. Even then you can’t even say rodri was the best player on Spain. And what did he do with man city. They didn’t win the UCL and JUST BARELY won the PL. Vinicius is the clear ballon dor winner for last year imo.
But people said messi doesn’t deserve it, Modric doesn’t deserve it, Ribery doesn’t deserve it, completely invalidating modric’s season, Messi’s World Cup, and Ribery’s well basically everything! If by your logic then the best UCL player should just win it every year! That’s dumb as hell, wouldn’t you agree? Either way it doesn’t matter Vini has won, his fans will like it and the haters will hate it and both will have valid points
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT have u seen ribery vs ronalod ststa and messi world cup vs halland winning everything else its either halland should win it 2023 or ineasta should have won in 2010 so if messi derved it now he didnt deserve it in 2010 one of them was a robbery
@@saimaanasraidu750 this is the issue with ballon d or, we all have the braincells to admit that it’s never consistent year to year, so why waste time comparing the years and using a previous year to justify our takes in a current year! This is why I say it’s ok if messi or haaland won it! Either way would be ok, similar to messi and Iniesta! The only true robberies are Nedved and Ronaldo instead of Henry and Ribery!
I can say without bias ronaldo deserved that one over modric but i can also say ribery also deserved in 13. Meanwhile messi robbed sneijder van dijk haaland lewandowski maybe even neymar back in 15 and if we going by how modric won it, xavi and iniesta was robbed when they won euros and world cup and club trophies. Goalpost is always moving for one person's benefit only.
The Ballon d'Or is judged on individual performance, not club achievements. Messi should have nine Ballon d'Ors, as he delivered the best individual performances in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
This is when the ballon'dor lost its prestige now it's just people voting for who they like more it's turned into a popularity contest not who actually deserves it.
By using the logic the guy used in the video, Messi fans must admit that he robbed Haaland last year. Why did no one say anything when he was given the ballondor just based on the World Cup in 2023, after Haaland broke all the premier league records?
The thing is for Messi’s World Cup not winning the ballon d or is straight criminal but at the same time haaland not winning it for the treble is criminal too, by your logic you are just underestimating the World Cup just like how our boy Raymar has, but for some people the World Cup is just that much more important than anything! You say why has no one said anything, bro so many people who had the same thought process of Reymar and you talked a lot of shit when Messi won just like that if haaland won so many people who prioritize a WC would have talked a lot of shit
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT Messi is amazing and world cup is definitely a great achievement. But haaland deserved it. Played in the harder league and won the treble. Messi not winning ballon dor for his world cup would be fine and wouldnt affect that great moment at all.
@@redragonyx I agree with you as well, city is my fav team out the Prem cause I always grew up never watching the league and by the time I started watching the league I only had teams I disliked and then witnessed the whole why always me match from balotelli and liked city since then! Watched almost all their games and I love haaland as well, even in the whole Mbappe haaland debate he’s my fav so I know everything haaland did and how much of a monster season that was, still I think the World Cup should be put to the top no matter what! And winning that is harder than winning the Prem for sure because of different reasons! Sure Prem is a tougher grind and instead of facing random nation teams where managers have to make do with what they have compared to Prem you will have teams set up as best as possible but that’s exactly why winning the World Cup is every footballers dream
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT world cup is important but you also have to realize what country the player is from matters. Haaland is from norway. You cant expect him to do much. Also like in the video said. Ballon dor is about the whole season not only world cup. If world cup was the most important what about the years when there’s no world cup?? How well player does in the world cup definitely helps but if they are clear favorites based on the season they had and then dont have a good world cup run.. They should still win because the whole season matters.
Thankyou Rob you get it: the thing is though imo, that assist and goals is not a good state to rate midfielders or defenders. They are engine of the team. So the whole how many assists or goals has he, is a bullshit argument imo
Ronaldo WAS the best player that year but he also left Real Madrid at that time so I know for sure he had something working against him to prevent him from getting that Ballon D'or he played for the same club with Modric' so anything he won Ronaldo won and that same World Cup Ronaldo put on that individual performance vs Spain even though Portugal were getting dominated having only 39% possession that match alone was Ballon D'or level. Modric' taking Croatia to the final is not a valid enough reason to say he was the best player that entire year, the only people that said he should win it are people that were happy that Ronaldo didn't get it.
I didn't get the youtube notification for some reason but yes Ronaldo was absolutely robbed here this year he was key in the champions league and important in winning the spanish supercup, club world cup, and champions league so he had the numbers and titles to back it up this year while being important and clutch in all of them heck even in the world cup he was great scoring a hat trick against spain but the squad didn't help him he was quite literally a one man army in portugal back then.
Ronaldo or Messi deserved that one, ballon dor is about individual performance not team success. Messi had the most goal contribution that year and came 5th, what a joke
Yes, absolutely. In 2018 this man lead a country with a population of 4 million people to the world cup final and won the UCL as one of the top 3 players in the competition, plus he was the best midfielder in the world at the time. Of course you can make a good case for Ronaldo as well that season but goals aren't everything, Zidane for example was the best player in the world and the man barely scored goals because he was a midfielder. In terms of achievements and performance Modric 100% deserved it imo.
he was alright at madrid I watched his whole campaign and croatia wasn't just modric they had a golden generation of players at that time only incredible performance that I remember from Modric was against argentina that year. Ronaldo was consistently the best player in the world in 2017-2018 objectively he had the stats, was clutch, and performed when it mattered being key in madrid winning 4 out of 6 titles he was even good in portugal that wc just the team didn't help still though scored a hat trick against spain I seriously don't get how Modric won it yes he was a good midfielder but Ronaldo just did so much more and was more consistent.
wasnt even the best midfielder there rakitic was watch closely
This is delusion and or revisionism. Modric did not deserve it whatsoever. He was good throughout the year but nowhere near Ballon D'or winning level. I saw almost all Madrid games that season. At no point in that year was Modric even considered a top Ballon D'or contender until the WC (which wasn't an elite campaign either). He won due to outside politics not because of actual performance.
@@jacon8155 no Modric was definitely Croatia's best player, I watched closely.
you're correct, yet still he didn't deserve it over Ronaldo, switch Ronaldo and Modric and put Messi 3rd
After Madrid won the champions I for sure thought it was going to CR7.
Even tho goals and assists are not everything, Ronaldo was definitely robbed here, he was the main reason why they won the ucl this 2018
Croatia in the World Cup final. Unheard of
@@20SilverTeeth so modric was not the main reason nfor them in the final bro ronaldo scored a once in a lifetime hatrick in the world cup even messi couldnt do that
@@saimaanasraidu750 Messi won the World Cup as the best player in the tournament. In fact Messi has like 4 international player of the tournaments unlike Ronaldo who has ZERO. 😭
Yes road to ballon dor seasons are good idea.
It's not just world cup. All of these mentions are attacking minded players. Even iniesta who was a fellow midfielder.
Modric does the dirty work
Think about it, goals happen like 1% of the game. The other 89 minutes who is doing the work. Spoiler - it's not the Messi/Ronaldo, it's the Modric's, it's the Camavingas, it's the Rodris, it's the Declan Rice's.
YOU WILL NEVER SEE THIS GUY GETTING even quarter of the goals/assists of Messi/Ronaldo, but let them leave the team first, you'll see the difference
Either way Modrid didn't deserve it, other players did better. In terms of performaces in their role, Modrid didn't do anything outstanding in terms of long balls completed, xG, xA, crosses, tackles won, ball retention. He did the same shit he did the year before, only thing was the world cup of which they didn't get far coz of him but coz they had a solid team with chemistry
Cmon guys you can’t say vini doesn’t deserve the ballon Dor. Did he have a lackluster Copa… yes… but that’s completely invalidating what he did in the champions league. In the champions league… he’s was THE player of the tournament. He won them the whole thing. When you ask yourself, who was the best player of last season…. Overalll it was Vini. Bellingham had the first half but gassed out in the second. He also didn’t play too well for the euros besides the bicycle kick & Rodri only played well in the euros. Even then you can’t even say rodri was the best player on Spain. And what did he do with man city. They didn’t win the UCL and JUST BARELY won the PL. Vinicius is the clear ballon dor winner for last year imo.
But people said messi doesn’t deserve it, Modric doesn’t deserve it, Ribery doesn’t deserve it, completely invalidating modric’s season, Messi’s World Cup, and Ribery’s well basically everything! If by your logic then the best UCL player should just win it every year! That’s dumb as hell, wouldn’t you agree? Either way it doesn’t matter Vini has won, his fans will like it and the haters will hate it and both will have valid points
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT have u seen ribery vs ronalod ststa and messi world cup vs halland winning everything else its either halland should win it 2023 or ineasta should have won in 2010 so if messi derved it now he didnt deserve it in 2010 one of them was a robbery
@@saimaanasraidu750 this is the issue with ballon d or, we all have the braincells to admit that it’s never consistent year to year, so why waste time comparing the years and using a previous year to justify our takes in a current year! This is why I say it’s ok if messi or haaland won it! Either way would be ok, similar to messi and Iniesta! The only true robberies are Nedved and Ronaldo instead of Henry and Ribery!
I can say without bias ronaldo deserved that one over modric but i can also say ribery also deserved in 13. Meanwhile messi robbed sneijder van dijk haaland lewandowski maybe even neymar back in 15 and if we going by how modric won it, xavi and iniesta was robbed when they won euros and world cup and club trophies. Goalpost is always moving for one person's benefit only.
The Ballon d'Or is judged on individual performance, not club achievements. Messi should have nine Ballon d'Ors, as he delivered the best individual performances in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
This is when the ballon'dor lost its prestige now it's just people voting for who they like more it's turned into a popularity contest not who actually deserves it.
By using the logic the guy used in the video, Messi fans must admit that he robbed Haaland last year. Why did no one say anything when he was given the ballondor just based on the World Cup in 2023, after Haaland broke all the premier league records?
Haaland was definitely robbed. Bro won the treble.
The thing is for Messi’s World Cup not winning the ballon d or is straight criminal but at the same time haaland not winning it for the treble is criminal too, by your logic you are just underestimating the World Cup just like how our boy Raymar has, but for some people the World Cup is just that much more important than anything! You say why has no one said anything, bro so many people who had the same thought process of Reymar and you talked a lot of shit when Messi won just like that if haaland won so many people who prioritize a WC would have talked a lot of shit
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT Messi is amazing and world cup is definitely a great achievement. But haaland deserved it. Played in the harder league and won the treble. Messi not winning ballon dor for his world cup would be fine and wouldnt affect that great moment at all.
@@redragonyx I agree with you as well, city is my fav team out the Prem cause I always grew up never watching the league and by the time I started watching the league I only had teams I disliked and then witnessed the whole why always me match from balotelli and liked city since then! Watched almost all their games and I love haaland as well, even in the whole Mbappe haaland debate he’s my fav so I know everything haaland did and how much of a monster season that was, still I think the World Cup should be put to the top no matter what! And winning that is harder than winning the Prem for sure because of different reasons! Sure Prem is a tougher grind and instead of facing random nation teams where managers have to make do with what they have compared to Prem you will have teams set up as best as possible but that’s exactly why winning the World Cup is every footballers dream
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT world cup is important but you also have to realize what country the player is from matters. Haaland is from norway. You cant expect him to do much. Also like in the video said. Ballon dor is about the whole season not only world cup. If world cup was the most important what about the years when there’s no world cup?? How well player does in the world cup definitely helps but if they are clear favorites based on the season they had and then dont have a good world cup run.. They should still win because the whole season matters.
He robbed ronny
The game isn't only about Goals and Assists. A midfielder's job is about dictating the tempo and controlling the game.
To win the Ballon d’or you need to have good stats and win trophies (World cup, continental cup, UCL) for the majority of the time.
Messi finished fifth with 51 goals and 26 assists in 54 games, and won 3 trophies
I still can't believe how they didn't give it to Ronaldo this year...
messi was better
@@mem5860 source:trust me bro or a "university"🤓
@@mem5860 wrong
@@buggydclownakawilmer302 i am completely right
@@mem5860wrong, crappy UCL run and average WC run. Only did well in domestic league which isn’t enough.
i'm excited for that road to ballond'ors journey keep up the great content y'all doing amazing love all you guys vids.
Messi had 51 goals 26 assists with 2 trophies and got 5th place💀💀
Road to ballon d or
Thankyou Rob you get it: the thing is though imo, that assist and goals is not a good state to rate midfielders or defenders. They are engine of the team. So the whole how many assists or goals has he, is a bullshit argument imo
Doesn’t change the fact he robbed the award.
@@Dippa1991 Debatable. Modric undoubtedly played some insane football during that time.
@@IdocarebutIdonthe was good but that wasn’t even his best year 2022 modric was better imo
Yes he did. Next question.
He didn’t
@@buggydclownakawilmer302Disagree. Infact he deserved 2-3 minimum.
ronaldo still has no world cup lmao
Ronaldo WAS the best player that year but he also left Real Madrid at that time so I know for sure he had something working against him to prevent him from getting that Ballon D'or he played for the same club with Modric' so anything he won Ronaldo won and that same World Cup Ronaldo put on that individual performance vs Spain even though Portugal were getting dominated having only 39% possession that match alone was Ballon D'or level. Modric' taking Croatia to the final is not a valid enough reason to say he was the best player that entire year, the only people that said he should win it are people that were happy that Ronaldo didn't get it.
Mudryk is the chelsea player
I didn't get the youtube notification for some reason but yes Ronaldo was absolutely robbed here this year he was key in the champions league and important in winning the spanish supercup, club world cup, and champions league so he had the numbers and titles to back it up this year while being important and clutch in all of them heck even in the world cup he was great scoring a hat trick against spain but the squad didn't help him he was quite literally a one man army in portugal back then.
The pronouns is modrich guys
Ronaldo or Messi deserved that one, ballon dor is about individual performance not team success. Messi had the most goal contribution that year and came 5th, what a joke
Messi didn’t win the Ucl or World Cup
It should have been between Ronaldo and Griezmann
@@5star1zModric didn’t win the wc plus messi won 2 trophies that year 🤔🤔