Real Madrid’s Luka Modric: The curious case of football’s Benjamin Button

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More than 10 years on, it is easy to forget that Luka Modric did not have it all his own way when he first came to the Santiago Bernabeu — readers of Spanish sports daily Marca voted him the worst signing of 2012 a few months after he joined.

that his first trophy in the Spanish capital came just two days after he arrived fromModric came on for the final 10 minutes of the Supercopa de Espana second leg againstThe celebratory photo that followed shows the Croatia midfielder kneeling on the fringes of the group, half-smiling and withOnly three players from that picture remain at the club: Modric, Karim Benzema and Nacho Fernandez.

Even so, it was a significant outlay from Madrid at the insistence of then-manager Jose Mourinho. It proved worth the effort: Modric has made 469 appearances, scored 37 goals and won 22 trophies with the Spanish giants. So far. Although he has a gym at home, Modric does not employ any specialists to take care of certain parts of his off-field routine. He does not have a particularly strict diet and does not sleep in any sort of special bed.

At home, Modric lives a normal family life with his wife and children. He often picks up his kids from school and enjoys spending quality time with them. Modric came on as a substitute against Atletico Madrid after an hour on Saturday and provided an inch-perfect corner for youngster Alvaro Rodriguez to rescue a point on 85 minutes.

He continues to cover an impressive amount of ground for Madrid, as shown by the below graphic of his touches in La Liga this season. Smarterscout gives players a series of ratings from zero and 99, relating to either how often they perform a given stylistic action , or how effective they are at it compared with others at their position.

 

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