Ballon d'Or winner Modric won the Champions
League and the FIFA Club World Cup with his Spanish club Real
Madrid as well as being instrumental in helping Croatia reach
the World Cup final in Russia. He was awarded the tournament's
Golden Ball Award.
The 33-year-old, who received 75 points in the 46th poll,
organised by Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), beat Serbia's world
number one tennis player Novak Djokovic, who topped the annual
poll five times in a row between 2011 and 2015.
Another tennis player, Romania's Simona Halep, who finished the
year as women's world number one for the second consecutive
season, came third in the poll, which is conducted by the
state-run news agencies in nine Balkan countries. (Reporting by
Angel Krasimirov Editing by Gareth Jones)
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