Croatia and Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric has beaten off competition from the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann and Lionel Messi to be named the winner of 2018's Ballon d'Or.

The Los Blancos midfield maestro who won the Champions League title with Madrid and afterward helped lead Croatia to the World Cup last has at long last put an end to Ronaldo-Messi time with the Croatian winning the 2018 Ballon d'Or award.

The 33-year-old is the first Croatian to win the Ballon d'Or; his countryman Davor Suker is the only other Croatian player to ever compete in the top three, in 1998.

Modric has likewise become the seventh player from Real Madrid to lift the trophy, breaking a tie with Barcelona players. (multiple winners, each club presently has won 11 awards in total, another record.) That may fill in as a touch of consolation in Madrid after a summer in which the club sold Ronaldo to Seria giants Juventus

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