#TheBest : Why Cristiano Ronaldo snubbed award ceremony
Facts have
emerged on the real reason Juventus star, Cristiano Ronaldo, was not at FIFA’s
The Best awards 2018, despite being nominated for two gongs.
The Portugal
star was nominated for FIFA’s The Best Player award, the main award of the
evening and was also up for the Puskas award, the goal of the year.
But the
Juventus superstar snubbed the ceremony, because he was aware he won’t win
either prize.
The
33-year-old had won five Ballon d’Ors and helped Real Madrid win a third
Champions League crown in a row last season.
But he
struggled at the World Cup with Portugal and was overshadowed by then Madrid
team-mate, Luka Modric.
According to
Express Sport, the Juventus forward said he did not attend because he wanted to
stay in Turin and concentrate on upcoming matches.
It is the
same reasoning he gave when he withdrew from the Portugal squad for the most
recent international break.
Luka Modric
took home the gong, and is the first man to win the award since 2007 that isn’t
Ronaldo or Lionel Messi.
Ronaldo also
reportedly boycotted the UEFA player-of-the-year awards he believed he would
not win.
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