Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have come under criticism from Fabio Capello for their failure to attend Monday night’s The Best FIFA Football Awards.

Both superstars were absence for the ceremony as Luka Modric claimed the men’s Player of the Year award.

The former Real Madrid coach Capello called their failure to attend the event “disrespectful.”

Ronaldo finished as runner-up while Messi wasn’t in the three finalists for the award.

“Maybe they’ve won too much,” Capello said.

“Ronaldo and Messi’s absence is disrespectful to their fellow players, to FIFA and to the football world,” Capello told Television Española.

“Maybe they’ve won too much and have [too great] a dislike of losing. In life you have to know how to win and lose.”