The best player of the FIFA World Cup normally gets this award named The Golden Ball award by a shortlist prepared by the FIFA technical committee and the winner decided by media representatives. The award was first granted in 1982 Officially. There were no Global Ball Award recipients from 1938 to 1950 because the FIFA World Cup did not occur during this timeline due to World War 2.<\/p>\n
Luke Modric from Croatian was the last footballer to receive this award in 2018. Luke Modric is a professional Footballer who Captains the Croatia National Team and plays as a midfielder for Real Madrid. He is known as one of the best midfielders of all time. He has also been honored as the Real Madrid Player of the Season: 2020-21. Modric was Captain of the 2018 FIFA World Cup runner-up Croatia Team. He had an immense contribution in carrying the team to the finals.<\/p>\n
Some other honors that are awarded are:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Golden Boot Award<\/span><\/strong>\u201d is rewarded to the tournament\u2019s top goal scorer.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cThe best young player award\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>is granted to the best players under 21.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGolden Gloves award\u201d<\/span><\/strong> is awarded to the tournament\u2019s best goalkeeper.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a list of Golden Ball Award winners:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/td>\n \u00a0<\/td>\n \u00a0<\/td>\n The Golden Ball Award is one of the most prestigious awards in the FIFA World Cup. It is handed to the best payer of the tournament. Let\u2019s have a look at the winners of this esteemed award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":33625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1132,1019,487,1778,2967,2648,181],"class_list":["post-11149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-diego-maradona","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-lionel-messi","tag-luka-modric","tag-oliver-kahn","tag-pele","tag-ronaldo"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n Year<\/strong><\/td>\n Global Ball Award Winners<\/strong><\/td>\n Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2018<\/td>\n Luka Modric<\/td>\n Croatia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2014<\/td>\n Lionel Messi<\/p>\n Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2010<\/td>\n Diego Forl\u00e1n<\/td>\n Uruguay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2006<\/td>\n Zinedine Zidane<\/td>\n France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2002<\/p>\n Oliver Kahn<\/td>\n Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1998<\/td>\n Ronaldo<\/td>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1994<\/td>\n Rom\u00e1rio (Rom\u00e1rio de Souza Faria)<\/td>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1990<\/td>\n Salvatore Schillaci<\/td>\n Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1986<\/td>\n Diego Maradona<\/td>\n Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1982<\/td>\n Paolo Rossi<\/td>\n Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1978<\/td>\n Mario Kempes<\/td>\n Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1974<\/td>\n Johan Cruyff<\/td>\n Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1970<\/td>\n Pel\u00e9<\/td>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1966<\/td>\n Bobby Charlton<\/td>\n England<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1962<\/td>\n Garrincha<\/td>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1958<\/td>\n Didi<\/td>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1954<\/td>\n Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s<\/td>\n Hungary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1950<\/td>\n Zizinho<\/p>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1938<\/td>\n Le\u00f4nidas<\/td>\n Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1934<\/td>\n Giuseppe Meazza<\/td>\n Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1930<\/td>\n Jos\u00e9 Nasazzi<\/td>\n Uruguay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"