Luka Modric kissed his bronze medal engraved with the World Cup trophy, which seems to be forever denied to him in the gold original, then the captain started the party with a nod to the Croatian “kindergarten”. Modric twirled daughter Ema in the air and snapped souvenir photos as son Ivano fooled the other kids with a plastic bottle behind him for a football – same long hair, same jersey with the number ten on the back.
