Luka Modrić
Croatia · La Liga · MF · CRO · age 41

The last dance
From a childhood of war to one last tournament
Luka Modrić learned football as a refugee. His earliest years were spent displaced by the Croatian War of Independence, his grandfather killed in the conflict, the family forced from their home. The boy who kicked a ball around a hotel car park in Zadar grew into the midfielder who, in 2018, broke the grip Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo had held on the Ballon d'Or for a decade.
That same summer he dragged Croatia, a nation of under four million, all the way to a World Cup final. Four years later he led them to a semi-final and a bronze medal at 37. Now 40, with 196 caps, a Real Madrid legend playing out his club days at Milan, he is the heartbeat of the most successful generation his country has ever produced.
He is listed as recovering from a fractured cheekbone and is not yet in the projected eleven — but writing Modrić off has rarely ended well for anyone who has tried. One more tournament with the checkerboard on his chest would be the closing of an extraordinary circle.
ملف تشكيلة كأس العالم 2026
- المنتخب
- Croatia
- المركز
- MF
- الدور في التشكيلة
- احتياطي
- ترتيب المركز
- #4
- مباريات دولية
- 196
- أهداف دولية
- 28
- تمريرات حاسمة دولية
- 31
- 0.52(تقييم النموذج، 0–1)
- 2.8%
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الحالة الأخيرة
2025/26 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (0.08 vs 0.21).
Major tournament stats
| Tournament | MP | Min | G | A | xG | Sh | KP | PrgP | PrgC | Tkl | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euro 2024 | 3 | 242 | 1 | 0 | 1.4 | 5 | 3 | 54 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
| World Cup 2022 | 7 | 673 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 6 | 6 | 151 | 102 | 7 | 17 |
| Euro 2020 | 4 | 393 | 1 | 1 | 0.1 | 3 | 5 | 75 | 48 | 2 | 8 |
| World Cup 2018 | 7 | 720 | 2 | 1 | 1.8 | 10 | 17 | 152 | 117 | 3 | 7 |
| All tournaments | 21 | 2,028 | 4 | 2 | 3.6 | 24 | 31 | 432 | 304 | 13 | 33 |
▸How to read this table— 11 columns explained
- MP
- Matches played in the tournament.
- Min
- Total minutes on the pitch.
- G
- Goals scored (penalties in normal play included; shootouts excluded).
- A
- Assists — passes that directly led to a goal.
- xG
- Expected goals — summed per-shot quality (StatsBomb's model).
- Sh
- Shots taken.
- KP
- Key passes — passes that led to a shot.
- PrgP
- Progressive passes — completed passes moving the ball ≥10m toward goal.
- PrgC
- Progressive carries — carries advancing ≥5m toward goal.
- Tkl
- Tackles won.
- Int
- Interceptions.
رادار الاستكشاف في البطولة
Defending
Passing & progression
Possession
معدلات لكل 90 دقيقة من بيانات أحداث البطولات الكبرى (StatsBomb)، مقارنةً بـ 102 لاعب midfielder بـ 270 دقيقة أو أكثر في النهائيات ذاتها. أعلى = أفضل.
النسب المئوية للمسيرة
مقابل 355 لاعب MF بـ 3,000 دقيقة أو أكثر في مجموعة البيانات. أعلى = أفضل.
Career — goals & xG by season
موسم بموسم
| الموسم | النادي | الدوري | الأهداف | التمريرات الحاسمة | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | Tottenham | Premier League | 25 | 1,910 | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| 2010-11 | Tottenham | Premier League | 32 | 2,793 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 2011-12 | Tottenham | Premier League | 36 | 3,214 | 4 | 4 | — | — |
| 2012-13 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 33 | 2,179 | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| 2013-14 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 34 | 2,639 | 1 | 6 | — | — |
| 2014-15 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 16 | 1,290 | 1 | 3 | — | — |
| 2015-16 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 32 | 2,619 | 2 | 4 | — | — |
| 2016-17 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 25 | 1,887 | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| 2017-18 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 26 | 1,970 | 1 | 6 | 1.8 | 4.2 |
| 2018-19 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 34 | 2,608 | 3 | 6 | 2.7 | 3.8 |
| 2019-20 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 31 | 1,996 | 3 | 7 | 1.5 | 3.3 |
| 2020-21 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 35 | 2,733 | 5 | 3 | 2.3 | 4.6 |
| 2021-22 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 28 | 2,032 | 2 | 8 | 2.5 | 5.2 |
| 2022-23 | Real Madrid | La Liga | 11 | 764 | 2 | 2 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
▸How to read this table— 6 columns explained
- MP
- Matches played in that season (start or sub counts as one).
- Mins
- Total minutes on the pitch — better signal for workload than MP alone.
- Goals
- Goals scored (penalties included).
- Assists
- Passes that directly led to a goal (FBref attribution).
- xG
- Expected goals — per-shot quality scored 0–1 by distance / angle / pressure, summed across the season.
- xAG
- Expected assisted goals — the xG of shots created by this player's passes, summed.
Rest of the Croatia squad
- Dominik Livaković · GK
- Joško Gvardiol · DF
- Josip Šutalo · DF
- Duje Ćaleta-Car · DF
- Marin Pongračić · DF
- Mario Pašalić · MF
- Mateo Kovačić · MF
- Nikola Vlašić · MF
- Andrej Kramarić · FW
- Ivan Perišić · FW
- Ante Budimir · FW
- Martin Baturina · MF
- Josip Stanišić · DF
- Petar Sučić · MF
- Luka Sučić · MF
- Martin Erlić · DF
- Igor Matanović · FW
- Kristijan Jakić · MF
- Petar Musa · FW
- Luka Vušković · DF
- Ivor Pandur · GK
- Marco Pašalić · FW
- Dominik Kotarski · GK
- Nikola Moro · MF
- Toni Fruk · MF