Luka Modric tem atormentado a Inglaterra por 20 anos. Será que ele consegue fazer isso mais uma vez?
De Zagreb a Wembley e Moscou, o grande croata já atrapalhou os Três Leões em várias ocasiões. Agora ele está pronto para uma última dança em Dallas. Quando Luka Modric jogou pela primeira vez contra a Inglaterra, Tony Blair ainda estava no cargo. O Arsenal havia acabado de se mudar de Highbury para o Emirates Stadium, a Itália era recém-coroada campeã mundial e Pep Guardiola se aposentou como jogador após uma passagem de seis meses pelo México...
From Zagreb to Wembley and Moscow, the Croatia great has derailed the Three Lions on many occasions. Now he’s ready for one last dance in Dallas
When Luka Modric first played against England, Tony Blair was still in office. Arsenal had just moved from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium, Italy were newly crowned world champions and Pep Guardiola retired as a player after a six-month spell in Mexico with Dorados. Twitter was less than three months old and Facebook had been made fully public earlier that year. Amy Winehouse’s album Back to Black was about to be released, while the much-hyped film Borat was coming to cinemas.
Football fans in England – and in Croatia – may recognise which game it was solely from that last bit of pop culture history: the European Championship qualifier in Zagreb on 11 October 2006.
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