Fabio Capello, Diego Forlan and Davor Suker were among those that criticized Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for skipping out on Monday's FIFA's The Best Awards.
Messi and Ronaldo were not in attendance in London with the Portuguese star skipping out despite being nominated for the Best FIFA Men's Player award alongside Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah.
Ronaldo has won each of the last two iterations of the award while earning honors twice when the award was the FIFA Ballon d'Or and one further honor as FIFA World Player of the Year.
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Messi, meanwhile, claimed four Ballon d'Ors as well as one FIFA World Player of the Year honor.