The Croatian great, Luka Modrić, a few days ago became the player with the most appearances for Croatia. Luka will celebrate his 36th birthday in September, and on the field it looks like he is at least ten years younger.
In his career he played for Zrinjski, Inter Zaprešić, Dinamo Zagreb, Tottenham and Real Madrid. But after Dinamo, his career could have gone a different way. We go back to 2007, which was very interesting for Luka. Croatia achieved a great victory at the Wembley against England, and many clubs wanted Modric in their ranks. In a big interview for index.hr,
Goran Vučević, a former Barcelona scout, revealed that Modrić almost ended up in Barcelona:
"I always remember how he almost ended up in Barcelona, they took him seriously. I was at the Croatia-England match in London in 2007 when something needed to be done, I was there with the people from Barcelona. But Tottenham took him and changed him the course of history. ", says Vučević and adds:
" He started to grow when I joined the scout network of Barcelona. We followed a large number of players, but Modrić was one of the most important. We followed his matches for a long time. His personality, toy but also human, fit into the Barcelona system.He liked to always keep the ball, pass, he has it everywhere on the field and he takes care of everything.He was young but he looked special.The Barcelona was too expensive but that’s because at the moment when they decided to do something he was already worth 50 million euros.They could get him for 15 million, I believe that, but sometimes Barcelona in the transfer policy looks at things a little high.For more than four years we knew in which direction will go Modric, his there was no explosionover night. That moment, or if you want to miss, Barcelona justified by the fact that it has similar players in its school. At the time Barcelona had Xavi and Iniesta, you could say they were well filled in those positions, right?
”But Luka went to Tottenham and four years later he signed for Real Madrid where he still plays.
