Luka Modrić (Croatian Luka Modrić, born September 9, 1985, Zadar, Croatia) is a Croatian footballer, captain of the Croatian national team, midfielder of the Spanish club Real Madrid. Three-time winner of the UEFA Champions League. The captain of the Croatian national team, the finalist of the 2018 World Cup, and the best player in this tournament. Winner of the Golden Ball 2018.
Was born on September 9, 1985 in the city of Zadar. Due to the war in Croatia, the Modric family was forced to move to Zaton. Luca detsva grew up as a very athletic child and in 1992 he entered both elementary school and football academy at the same time.
Since 2002, they began to declare him for the games in the main squad of the Dynamo (Zagreb) club, although he did not play a single official game in its composition. But during 2003-2005 he played on a loan, first in the Bosnian club Zrinski, and then in the Croatian Inter (Zapresic).
With his play for the last team, he again attracted the attention of representatives of the coaching staff of the main team "Dynamo" (Zagreb), to which he returned in 2005. This time he played for Dynamo for the next three seasons of his playing career. Most of the time spent with Dynamo Zagreb was the main player of the team and was distinguished by a fairly high performance.
In April 2008, it became known about the transfer of the Croat to the English “Tottenham Gotspur”, which paid 16.5 million pounds for his transfer, thus repeating the club transfer value record set a year earlier when Darren Bent was signed. Modric has played for the London club in four of the six contractual seasons, becoming a key player in the center of Spurs during this time, having played over 150 appearances in all competitions.
In 2012, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez took an interest in Luca and the club signed a five-year contract with him, the transfer amount, according to independent estimates, was about 30 million pounds. Horvath made his Royal Club debut two days after signing on August 29, 2012, as a substitute in the second game of the Spanish Super Cup. This trophy was his first in the form of "Real".
He became the main striker for Jose Mourinho's team and remained a key player in the tactics of the following Real Madrid coaching managers - Carlo Ancelotti, Rafael Benitez and Zinedine Zidane. Under the latter's leadership, the club won the UEFA Champions League three times in a row between 2016 and 2018. He was invariably elected to the symbolic team of the Champions League according to the results of these triumphant rallies for his club. Luca became the owner of the Club World Championship three times.
On October 18, 2016, he extended his contract with Real Madrid until 2020.
In 2001 he made his debut in the youth national team of Croatia, took part in 22 games at the youth level, noting 1 goal scored.
During 2004-2005 he was involved in the youth national team of Croatia. At the youth level, he played in 15 official matches, scored 2 goals.
In 2006 he made his debut in official matches for the Croatian national team.
At the 2008 European Championship he took part in three of his team's four games. He was the author of the only winning goal in the group stage match against the hosts of the competition, Austria, which helped his team to reach the playoff stage.
At the 2012 European Championships and 2014 World Championships, he was already a key player for the Croatian national team, having played for her in all matches, but in both cases he failed to overcome the group stage.
He played two group stage matches at Euro 2016, and in the first of them, against Turkey, it was his goal that was the only one in the game and helped the Croats, like 8 years earlier, to leave the group. Completely played on the field and the game of the 1/8 finals, where the "checkered" minimally (0: 1) lost to the future champions of the championship to the Portuguese. After the continental championship, the end of the performances for the national team was announced by its longtime leader and captain Darijo Srna, after which it was Modric who received the captain's armband in the national team.
The selection game for the 2018 World Cup against Ukraine, ended with a victory for the Croats with a score of 2: 0, became for Modric the 100th jubilee, in the form of the national team.
In the final part of the 2018 World Cup, the Croatian team captain once again demonstrated his scoring qualities, scoring a goal in two starting group stage matches - against Nigeria (2: 0) and Argentina (3: 0) - by which he helped his team to advance stage of the playoffs.
Personal life
Modric married Vana Bosnich in May 2010 in Zagreb after four years of dating. The couple have three children. The first-born Ivano was born on June 6, 2010, three years later, on April 25, 2013, he had a sister, Emma, and finally, on October 2, 2017, Sofia was born.
Condition and salary
Modric currently receives a salary of $ 9 million a year from Real Madrid. Luka's net worth has increased by 75% over the past few years.
The Croatian specialist owns two Range Rover and Lexus vehicles. It has a current market value of $ 25 million and is ranked 120th most valuable player.
