The dedicatoria more special of Modric after winning the Balloon of Gold included to Xavi and Iniesta

There was, there is and will follow having debate, but Luka Modric was proclaimed this winning Monday of the Balloon of Gold 2018. The one of Zadar was a referent in the Real Madrid that conquered the Champions League and also of a Croatian selection that reached the final of the World-wide of Russia, and has broken the period of command of two footballers that are between the best of the history.

Like this it recognised it the own midfield player in speeches, celebrations and back interviews to his coronation, in which it gladdened of his attainment but revealed that it is very conscious of his situation: "In the history will remain that a Croatian player, representative of a small country, won the Balloon of Gold after Cristiano and Messi, that are players of another level. Anybody has right to compare with them. They are the best of the history of this sport. Go behind them is incredible. I do not create neither by a second that this has finish for them".

But in addition to mentioning to two of the most recent referents in the world-wide football, the crack warned that there are others that also deserve recognition, and agreed of them with a dedicatoria very special. "Perhaps there were some players that could win the Balloon of Gold these last years, as Xavi, Iniesta or Sneijder. But it could not be. Now the people wanted to something different. I think that tonight it is a victory for the football. I am very happy, but this prize is also for these players that probably deserved to win and did not do it", valued.

The Catalan, the manchego and the Dutch are three of the stars that saw relegadas by Messi and Cristiano, in spite of that there were moments in which they could be by in front. Finally, the goals commanded on the influence that all they had in his teams, especially to level of selection but also in the FC Barcelona and the Inter of Milan, that fattened his vitrinas under the direction of three auénticos out of series.

The prediction of Zidane with Luka Modric

Between the comments that Modric made after the triumph, stands out an anecdote beside Zinedine Zidane, in which the technician vaticinó that his pupilo would win the Balloon of Gold: "there is a thing that will not forget never. When Zidane arrived to be trainer of the Madrid in January of 2016, called me a day to his dispatch, after a training. It explained me how it saw me like player and also what expected of me. It said me that it was a very important footballer for him. And especially, that saw me like a player that, tomorrow, could win the Balloon of Gold".

"When somebody like Zidane, with his personality and his record, says you this, goes up you the morals. It admired him and it respected him enormously like player. It saw him like somebody to the one who I seemed me, calm and a bit shy. It expected of me that expressed me more on the field, that opened me. It needed of me that went a key piece in the team, in a period in which we have played truly well to the football. These words of Zidane helped me to go further in my game. However, in spite of these words, did not dare to believe it", confessed.