FIFA Best Player: Rakitic names who should win award, reveals greatest player of all time

Barcelona ace, Ivan Rakitic, has stated that Real Madrid star, Luka Modric should lift the FIFA Best Player award for 2018.

Rakitic also described his Barcelona teammate, Lionel Messi, as the greatest player of all time.

Modric made the list of three players for the individual award alongside former teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.

Rakitic and Modric led Croatia to the final of the 2018 World Cup where they were beaten by France.

“There are seasons that you can be better or not,” Rakitic told Express Sports.

“For me in general the best player of the world and maybe the greatest of all time is Leo Messi. It’s easy, you take a boy, and nine of 10 boys are gonna say the same.

“But I think it was the year of Luka, sincerely, I think it’s something that Leo and all the people know, he [Modric] deserves all the awards.

“Sincerely, if he received the award of the best European player… I don’t know what he has to do to be the best player of the world, with all he did.

“I don’t need to help him as a good friend of him as I’m, he made everything on himself, nobody gave him anything.

“For me it’s clear that it has to be Luka [for The Best award].”