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Luka Modric

Croatia

Position
Club
Age
Midfielder
Real Madrid
35
Caps
Goals
Rating
142
18
Group16QFSFF
6
7
8
8

Captain, icon, record holder for most appearances for the national team, the most important player in the team by some distance and easily the most successful in the nation’s history - but still Modric isn’t universally loved in his homeland. The reason is his role in the Mamic trial, the biggest corruption case in Croatian football, when he changed his initial testimony and said he “didn’t remember” the key details that would go in favour of the prosecution...