The Croatian Luka Modric, Captain of Real Madridwill not continue in the white team after Club World Cupas announced on Thursday, so, in addition, this Saturday in front of the Real Sociedad (16.15 hours) will be his last game in the Santiago Bernabéu.
Modric arrived at Real Madrid in 2012 from Tottenham And that the club will leave as the player with more titles in his history, with 28 in his record: 6 Champions6 Club World Cups5 European Super Cups4 Diseases2 King Cups y 5 Spanish Super Cups. In addition, in 2018 he was awarded the biggest individual prize, the Golden Ball.
This trajectory with the white team will end after the Club World Cup which is played from June 15 to July 13 in the United States; tournament that opens and for which Real Madrid He extended the contract, with a usual final date of June 30, and can thus play the last tournament of the season.
Modric will live this Saturday, before the Real Sociedad at the closing of LaLiga 2024-25, His last meeting as Real Madrid player in the Santiago Bernabéuthe one that has been his home during the last 13 seasons.
Therefore, a farewell will be prepared at the height of the footballer, while also the coach Carlo Ancelottithe most laureate coach in the club's history, will receive a tribute at the end of Saturday his stage in the Real Madrid, after which he will be a coach of Brazil.
After the withdrawal of Toni kroosthe Croatian extended his contract with Real Madrid for a season and this campaign became the longest playing player with the white club, after overcoming Francis Puskás (39 years and 40 days), in addition to the most veteran scorer, a member of the top 10 of players with more official matches, 590, ten to match in the eighth square 600 of Paco Gento.
Despite changing his role in Real Madrid, when he becomes untouchable in a center of the legend field with Toni Kroos, to intersperate titular presences with more supplements, Modric This course has exceeded its registration of matches in a year. He has participated in 56, leaving behind the 53 of his first year, in the 2012-2013 season. Although the number of minutes has reduced by age, with 2,715 in total, much lower than the 4,028 that left as the best brand in the 2013-2014 campaign.
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Even with a day of LaLiga EA Sports and the Club World Cup To dispute, Modric, who has marked four goals and distributed nine assists, and that already exceeded the minutes of last season (2,210), will end up being in numbers of the previous three years, exceeding the barrier of the 3,000 minutes of play, which increased being undisputed with the Croatian team.
A selection that keeps in his head, although he will turn 40 in September. Modric has the personal challenge to play with Croatia he World Cup 2026, That would be the fifth of his career. It is the gold brooch that Modric You want to put a road full of records for history: a player born on September 9, 1985 who played with Croatia the World Cup in Germany 2006, that of Brazil 2014, that of Russia 2018 -where it was runner -up against France -and that of Qatar 2022 -he said third.
