Luka Modric: The adversity that forged a champion

Luka Modric was the best footballer of 2018 - driving Real Madrid to Champions League glory and taking Croatia to an unprecedented World Cup 2018 final.
Goal visited Modric's childhood home and the hotel he fled to as a refugee in a Croatia ripped apart by war to find out how a kid from a mountain side farm in Modrici became a world-beating footballer.
Check out the full Modric feature from Goal's chief correspondent Peter Staunton: www.goal.com/st...
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