From leagues, a King’s Cup, Two Spanish Super Cups, three European Super Cups, four Club World Cup and 4 Champions League are the titles that the best ’10’ of the Real Madrid in the decade it has achieved in nine seasons.
We are talking about Luke Modric, Undisputed holder in the white box since his arrival on the white box in 2012 at the request of the prestigious coach José Mourinho, Who saw in him what the world could not.
“I insisted so much on bringing Modric at the Real Madrid because I had everything we needed in the team: technique, vision and reading of the game, quality when making decisions, speed of thought, passed long, short, scored from outside the area, knew pressing, he was smart to position himself and he was intense. We needed all this in the Real Madrid“, He declared Mou a Sports News in a special report on the Croatian player.
The 35 – year – old midfielder adapted greatly to that white club of Mourinho who reached the semifinals of Champions League and the end of King’s Cup, Playing 53 games in just his first campaign where he played pretty much everything.
Modric won the Champions League with the Real Madrid and led the selection of Croatia in a heroic participation in the 2018 World Cup in Russia where they reached the final, enough to establish themselves as the Golden Ball this year and break the hegemony imposed by Lionel Messi next Cristiano Ronaldo in such deliveries.
“When someone can make history with their works it becomes immortal. Luke Modric managed to be named the Golden Ball, so please don’t compare it to anyone, “he concluded. Mourinho.