IN DIRECT: it Follows the gala of delivery of the Balloon of Gold 2018

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Bienvenido to the ceremony of delivery of the Balloon of Gold 2018. Through this DIRECT will be able to be still in alive the gala of 'France Football', in which it will deliver the individual prize more prestigious of the panorama futbolístico international.

The place chosen to do delivery of the trophy is the Grand Palais of Paris, France, that will receive to the invited of honour in a gala that will begin to the 21:00 hours (Spanish peninsular hour), after the past year celebrated a bit before, to the 20.15 hours, and went presented by David Ginola from the same Tower Eiffel, with Cristiano Ronaldo like winner.

The gala of the Balloon of Gold 2018 will be able to be still in Mega and Real Madrid TV from the 21:00 hours, peninsular schedule Spanish and to the 20:00 in Canaries. Regarding the schedules in latinoamérica, will be able to follow to the 14:00 hours in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, Ecuador and Mexico; and to the 16:00 hours in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil, through channels as 'ESPN' and 'DirecTV Sports'.

In said event it is necessary to take into account that Leo Messi, Luis Suárez and Ivan Rakitic will be the only players of the FC Barcelona that are nominated to carry the award, although any of them will carry it to him, since it has filtered that Modric will be the one who carry it to him.

In this new edition, 'France Football' has gone back to dump to the maximum to compete with the prizes 'The Best'. A jury composed by the 176 correspondents of 'France Football' has voted by the 30 players that aspired to the prize, with a final podium that will know in the same gala, although the rest of names already have gone desvelando progressively.

Luka Modric, the big favourite

The name of the winner desvelará on the 22.09 hours of this Monday, being the Croat Luka Modric the big favourite to reach his first Balloon of Gold, and break like this with more than a decade of hegemony of Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi. Cristiano already achieved this distinction in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016, whereas Leo Messi also has five prizes, and won them of form intercalada with Christian in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015.

Regarding the midfield player of the Real Madrid, Luka Modric, and the stars of the French selection Kylian Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann, are the big candidates to carry the award, although from does days is a secret to voices that the Croatian player, that already won the The Best 2018, will carry his first Balloon of Gold. The last footballer that carried the Balloon of Gold without being the forward of the Juventus or the star of the FC Barcelona was Kaká in 2007, when it played in the Milan. Since, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi have delivered all the awards.