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GERMANY AND CROATIA COACHES SPEAK ON WHY MODRIC IS BEST OF THE BESTS

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The world bests are celebrating the best of the best footballers in the world. Zlatko Dalic who guided Luka Modric-inspired Croatia to the Russia 2018 World Cup final and Joachim Low, the World Cup winner with Germany four years ago, have hailed Luka Modric

“Luka Modric is the captain of my team, he’s the best player in my team and also in the world. He’ll deserve this award.

“He’s a very good man, a serious guy, a professional guy. He’s like my assistant in the field and I really appreciate Luka Modric for everything this guy did this year and he deserves everything.”

Germany manager, Low spoke in similar vein, describing Modric as a leader. “All the players who are nominated are very, very good. For me, this time Luka Modric was the best player in the last months.

“He was the leader in this amazing Croatian team. They reached the final [in the World Cup] nobody expected that.

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“He did a great job and was really professional for Real Madrid. He was playing all the time at a high level. I would say this time he was the best.”

 

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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