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Luka Modric

Luka Modrić is a Croatian professional soccer midfielder who plays for Real Madrid and the Croatia national team. He began his career with Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia before playing for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League and has been with Real Madrid since 2012, helping them win multiple Champions League titles. Modrić has had great success with the Croatia national team and led them to the 2018 World Cup Final where he was named the tournament's best player. He is widely considered one of the best midfielders of his generation and the greatest Croatian soccer player ever.

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Luka Modric

Luka Modrić is a Croatian professional soccer midfielder who plays for Real Madrid and the Croatia national team. He began his career with Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia before playing for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League and has been with Real Madrid since 2012, helping them win multiple Champions League titles. Modrić has had great success with the Croatia national team and led them to the 2018 World Cup Final where he was named the tournament's best player. He is widely considered one of the best midfielders of his generation and the greatest Croatian soccer player ever.

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Luka Modrić (Croatian pronunciation: [lûːka mǒːdritɕ];[4][5] born 9 September 1985) is a Croatian

professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Real Madrid and captains the Croatia
national team. He plays mainly as a central midfielder, but can also play as an attacking midfielder or as a
defensive midfielder, usually deployed as a deep-lying playmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the
best midfielders of his generation,[nb 1] and the greatest Croatian footballer of all-time.[nb 2]

Born in Zadar, Modrić's childhood coincided with the Croatian War of Independence which displaced his
family. In 2002, he was signed by Dinamo Zagreb at age 16, after showing promise with his hometown
club NK Zadar's youth team. He continued his development in Zagreb, before spells on loan to Zrinjski
Mostar and Inter Zaprešić. He made his debut for Dinamo in 2005 and won three consecutive league
titles and domestic cups, being named the Prva HNL Player of the Year in 2007. In 2008, he moved to
Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur for a club-record transfer fee of £16.5 million, where he led
Spurs to their first UEFA Champions League appearance in almost 50 years, reaching the quarter-finals of
the 2010–11 tournament.

In the summer of 2012, Modrić joined Real Madrid for a £30 million transfer fee. There he became a key
contributor and helped the team win La Décima and was selected for the 2013–14 Champions League
squad of the season. After Zinedine Zidane took over Madrid, Modrić was critical to three consecutive
Champions League titles from 2015–16 to 2017–18, each time being voted into the squad of the season.
He won the La Liga Award for "Best Midfielder" in 2016 for the second time, and the UEFA Club Football
Award for "Best Midfielder" in 2017 and 2018. In 2015, he became the first Croatian player to be
included in the FIFA FIFPro World XI, in which he was regularly included until 2019, as well in the UEFA
Team of the Year between 2016 and 2018. In 2018, Modrić became the first Croatian player to win the
UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award, and by winning The Best FIFA Men's Player and Ballon d'Or
awards, he became the first player other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to claim the awards in
more than a decade. In 2019, was awarded the Golden Foot award for career results and personality.

Modrić made his international debut for Croatia against Argentina in March 2006, and scored his first
international goal in a friendly match against Italy. He has since anchored Croatia's "second Golden
Generation", participating in every major tournament Croatia has qualified for, including the UEFA Euro
2008, 2012, and 2016, as well the 2006, 2014, and 2018 FIFA World Cup. At UEFA Euro 2008, he was
selected for the Team of the Tournament, becoming only the second Croatian to ever achieve this
honour. Following group stage eliminations in his first two World Cups, Modrić led Croatia to the 2018
World Cup Final, and he received the Golden Ball award for Best Player of the Tournament. Furthermore,
he has been named the Croatian Footballer of the Year a record eight times between 2007–2019.[

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