Luka Modric

There is a generation of football supporters — those born somewhere in the corridor between the mid-eighties and the late nineties — for whom the game has been organised, for their entire conscious lives, around a small number of enormous…

The numbers sit there, stubbornly implausible. In seven World Cup appearances since independence, Croatia have reached the semi-finals three times — finishing third in 1998, reaching the final in 2018, and claiming third place again in…

  Despite the fearing sounds of bullets and broken walls he ran to net the goals.The love of football forced the magician of Madrid to make the bounce from Dinamo Zagreb to Real Madrid. In the 2005-2006 season, he signed a 10-year…

After the dramatic highs of the semifinals, and with the ultimate zenith of the final to come, most expected the third-place playoff to be forgettable as usual. But nobody seemed to have told Morocco or Croatia that. An entertaining…

World champions France were undone by an early Luka Modric penalty and stout defending from Croatia as they slipped to a 0-1 defeat at the Stade de France, leaving them winless from their four Nations League group matches so far. Last…

Football World cups are the perfect stage for iconic moments and thrilling stories to be etched in the hearts of the footballing world. The 2018 edition wasn't short of any of those, but it was the one in which we witnessed the greatest…