After Real Madrid’s Luka Modric won the Ballon d’Or yesterday, becoming the first person not named Lionel Messi or…

Individual awards in soccer are inherently silly and effectively meaningless. FIFA’s premier individual award has been…

Argentina came into their second group-stage game against Croatia today needing to bounce back from a frustrating,…

Luka Modrić should be a national hero. The Croatian midfielder has been a regular for several seasons now on Real…

Heading into the weekend, the seventh Madrid derby of 2014 was the biggest match on the slate, just like it was the…