The Croatian Luka modric, midfielder real Madrid and undisputed leader of Spain’s first rival in Euro 2024, has in The Red to one of his betes noires, whom he has only beaten once in the six games he has been on the field.
Modric, an absolute legend who has been wearing the Croatian shirt for 18 years, when he debuted in 2006 at the gates of the world precisely played in Germany, the same country where he can close his career in major tournaments, he has been a player who has had more successes than defeats as an absolute international.
He is the one who has worn the red and white checkered shirt the most times, a total of 175 times, and accumulates 96 victories, 46 draws and only 38 defeats.
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In the Euro Cups, He is on the verge of his fifth participation, he has not done as well as in the World Cups. His best brand is the best in the history of Croatia, with the 2008 quarterfinals. In the World Cup the story is very different because they played in the 2018 final and reached the semifinals in 2022.
But despite having a more than solid international record, Spain it resists him. Accumulate 4 defeats, 1 victory and 1 draw. In fact, in that tie they ended up losing in the penalty shootout, in the final of the Nations League against the combined Spanish.
Spain, 15 debuts in Euro Cups and only one defeat
He has been present in 7 games against the team he now directs Luis de la Fuente, but in one of them, in the group stage of the Euro 2016 (2-1 Croatian victory) did not play a single minute.
Therefore, the record that remains is quite negative. Only 1 victory, in the League of Nations, in the group stage, on November 15, 2018, which ended with a score of 3-2 in a duel in which he assisted. The confrontations of Modric against Spain they started in a friendly in 2006, when he was 18 years old.
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Since then they have seen each other in the group stage of the Euro 2012, in the League of Nations of 2018, in the round of 16 of the 2021 Euro Cup and in the final of the Nations League, which appears in the lists as a tie when counting up to 120 minutes, but Croatia ended up losing in the penalty shootout.
In Berlin, in Olympic Stadium from the German capital, a new chapter of a recent classic of European national team football will take place. The Eurocup historically resists Croatia. Already Luka modric Spain chokes him. But the ball does not understand numbers when the referee whistles to start the game.
