Twitter erupts as Luka Modric wins the FIFA World Player of the year award

It was the night that the entire footballing fraternity was waiting for, a night that could possibly end the duopoly of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi of winning the best player of the year award for last 10 seasons.

And that is exactly what transpired at the Royal Festival Hall in London, as Luka Modric, the magician of Real Madrid and the hero of Croatia broke the Messi-Ronaldo domination to win the FIFA World Player of the year award.

Modric had the perfect possible year(except probably missing out on the FIFA World Cup). He won the Champions League with Real Madrid, took his country to the final of the FIFA World Cup, winning the Golden Ball at the World Cup, winning the UEFA Player of the year award and then finally capping it off with the FIFA World Player of the year award.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah were the other two players in contention for th award, and while Salah did not quite have the credentials to beat Modric, Ronaldo certainly did.

However, it seems like the World Cup showing helped tilt the award into Modric’s favour, who had an amazing month in Russia, digging deep and helping his team reach the final of the FIFA 2018 World Cup.

This is how Twitter reacted: