The departure of his friend Toni Kroos has changed the life of Luka Modric. At Real Madrid they considered the Croatian’s life in the white shirt to be amortized after a brilliant 12-year period in which winning the Ballon d’Or was the zenith of his career as a Real Madrid player. At 38 years old, he will turn 39 in September, Luka has been part of a legendary midfield alongside Kroos and Casemiro at Real Madrid. Modric, who with Toni has won 4 European Cups, 5 Club World Cups, 4 European Super Cups, 4 Leagues, 1 Copa del Rey and 4 Spanish Super Cups, arrived two years before the German at the white team. The dilemma the Croatian faced this summer was where he would go to play, because he wanted to continue enjoying his time as a footballer.
From going to the US or Arabia, to staying in Madrid
Modric still had on the table the offer from Saudi Arabia that he rejected last summer, to which other arrivals from the American MLS and some from Croatia have been added. Luke stole it removing the leaves of the daisy with his family when this surprising decision by Kroos came that has caused a hole in the white midfield for next season. This has caused a change of scenery that has led to Real Madrid to alter your plans with Modricwhich led to a meeting last Friday between the player and his agent, Vlado Lemic, with Florentino Pérez. Meeting in which the footballer’s renewal was channeled until June 2025. Lemic himself confirmed this approach which, if nothing strange happens, will result in a public renewal announcement after the Wembley final. “Most likely, he will stay for another year and continue writing his story,” Lemic said.
Extending his relationship with Real Madrid for another year brings him closer to his goal, which is to play in the 2026 World Cup with Croatia, where he plans to retire from football and hang up his boots. Modric would play in that World Cup at the age of 40, since he would not turn 41 until September of that summer of 2026, in which the World Cup event will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The player revealed to Real Madrid his intention to retire as a white player, but that year that remains in the air between June 2025 and the following summer of the World Cup is still an unknown.
Personalized training and nutrition
The good end of the season has invited the club to make this decision, encouraged by the Croatian’s rejuvenation. Every night Luka Modric receives a message with the specific training planning which will be done the next day. send it to you Vlatko Vucetic, professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb with whom he has worked continuously since 2015. Luka and Vlatko have known each other since 2003, when a young Luka, 17 years old, was tested along with the rest of his Dinamo Zagreb teammates. Since then, the player repeatedly visits Vucetic in the following years without standing out particularly aerobically or anaerobically, beyond his interesting speed of recovery.
However, in 2014, after undergoing blood lactate tests with the Croatian national team, the professor gave the footballer some guidelines to optimize his performance. The results convinced him and he began to work more closely with Vucetic. In an interview with the Croatian media ‘Sportske Novosti’, the coach revealed that Modric “works every day on prevention and development to keep his performance at a high level.” Since then, Luka lands at Real Madrid training half an hour before the rest of the players to perform injury prevention exercises, and at the end of training he continues his personal work routine. It is what Vucetic calls “an intelligent training system.” The Croatian, who enjoys an orderly life with his wife and three children, knows that this is the price to continue being an elite footballer at his age, and he assumes those sacrifices, including working out in his gym. home on days off. In fact, Modric barely enjoys three days a year without activity, because during the holidays he does swimming training.
And all that effort is going to be rewarded with a renewal that only creates an inconvenience for Real Madrid. Florentino Perez I was determined that Kylian Mbappé would wear the number 10 that Luka wears and now that will not be possible. The 7, which is the Frenchman’s favorite number, is worn by Vinicius, and those that are free among the first 11 (something that Florentino always asks of his stars), are the 8 that Kroos leaves and the 9 that, initially, is destined for that the Brazilian Endrick looks like. Therefore, Modric’s renewal requires readjusting that matter.
2024-05-23 06:03:27
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