David Alaba racially abused after Messi vote at The Best FIFA Football Awards

Real Madrid defender David Alaba was racially abused on social media after voting for Lionel Messi and Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic accused FIFA of disrespect on Tuesday in fallout from the soccer bodys annual awards ceremonyMessi was named the best mens player on Monday after leading Argentina to last years World Cup title in Qatar with Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema in third place after a standout season helping Madrid to another Champions League titleThe awards were decided by a poll of national team captains and coaches selected media and fans voting online from candidate lists decided by FIFAappointed expert panelsAlabas vote as captain of Austrias national team placing Messi first Madrid teammate Benzema second and Kylian Mbappeacute the eventual runnerup in third was among the results published by FIFA after the ceremony in ParisThat choice provoked anger from Madrid fans and others because Alaba who is Black voted for Messi who spent 17 seasons at Barcelona Real Madrids biggest rivalAlso Read Lionel Messi and Alexia Putellas voted best players at FIFA awards againThe Austrian national team vote for this award as a team not me alone Alaba wrote on his social media accounts Everyone in the team council is able to vote and thats how its decidedEveryone knows especially Karim how much I admire him and his performances added Alaba who joined Madrid last season after more than a decade at Bayern Munich I have often said that for me he is the best striker in the world and that is still the case Without doubtDalic said Tuesday he refused to vote in protest at a perceived lack of respect for himself and his team which eliminated Brazil before losing to Argentina in the World Cup semifinalsI am disappointed with FIFAs attitude towards the Croatian national team because I strongly maintain that based on everything weve achieved as a national team we deserve more respect from the head governing body of world football than we have received the coach said in a statement published by the Croatian soccer federationCroatia captain Luka Modric another Real Madrid player was fourth in the voting Modric won the FIFA award in 2018 when his team reached the World Cup final losing to FranceDalic who placed third in 2018 in voting for the best coach award pointed Tuesday to himself being left off the fiveman shortlist this time and for his players being overlooked for other awards including a playervoted allstar teamWas there really no place for Mateo Kovacic on that list even though hes won the FIFA Club World Cup with Chelsea and played a brilliant World Cup in Qatar Where is Joko Gvardiols name Dalic asked And did Dominik Livakovic not deserve to be one of the five finalists for the Best FIFA Mens Goalkeeper after everything he did in QatarDalic also noted that Morocco coach Walid Regragui was a candidate finishing fourth for the coaching award won by Argentinas Lionel Scaloni despite Croatia beating that team in the thirdplace game at the World Cup and drawing in their group match in QatarHaving taken all of the above into consideration I have decided not to partake in the voting process for this years awardsiquest Dalic said aiming a further barb at FIFA Both the time slots of our matches at the World Cup and the quality of refereeing especially at the semifinal match made me feel that there was a lack of respect towards the Croatian teamFIFA did not immediately respond to a request for commentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever