“It was December 1991, I was six years old. One evening my grandfather didn’t come home. They went to look for him. They had shot him in a field on the side of the road. He was sixty-six years old. He hadn’t done anything bad to anyone.” Talking is Luka Modrictalent today in force at Milan. Modric has won everything in his career experience al Real Madrid (including a golden ball) and others 40 years continues to make the difference with the Rossoneri shirt. Not only training, but also family, humility, living daily as a “persona normal“So Croatian continues to remain at high levels.
Values e quality acquired over time, afterwards a childhood difficile in Croatia, told during a long interview with Corriere della Sera. “When I was little I didn’t go to nursery, I was always crying, so they took me to the nursery”high house“of my grandfather, in Dalmatia. It was the house of the roadmen: my grandfather had the road maintenance“, explained Modric, starting a long story. And when he talks about his grandfather Luka he does so with pride: “I bear his name. He taught me to WASH the neveto stack the hayto bring the flock al pasture. I grew up with animals, I enjoyed pulling the tails of the goats, I think I learned to play football there, among the sheep and the stones.”
Grandfather’s story
Then the grandfather was killed by Chetniks Serbia In the 1991a wound still open for Luka Modric. The Croatian freezes when he has to talk about it. Even after 34 years he continues to ask himself: “how do you kill a good man, a just man? Why?”. Then the story: “They killed him because war was like that. I remember the funeral. Dad who takes me in front of the coffin and tells me: ‘My son, give grandfather a kiss’.”
Today Modric dreams of acquire il land where the “casa alta“, set on fire afterwards the assassination of the grampa. “Today it is owned by the state. All in ruins, full of weeds. They are thinking of making a museum there. But I wouldn’t want anyone else to decide. I would like to buy it. For grandfather and for me too. That ruin is a piece of my life.”
Modric: “If I hadn’t been a footballer, I would have been a waiter”
It has enchanted you for more than 20 years now fields of football: technique superfine, vision Of game incredible ed elegance the ones that make you fall in love with the game. But if Modric hadn’t been a footballer, he would have already had it the ready alternative: “I would have done the waiter. I was good. And I liked it. I studied at the hotel institute in Borik. The first year we practiced at the Marina restaurant in Zara, where the wedding dinners were held. I dig it Drinks are served and there is a lot of drinking at Croatian wedding receptions. The only thing I didn’t like was wash i dishes“.
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