Italian journalist Alessandro Vocalelli, in Gazzetta dello Sport, spoke about Luka Modric as follows:
“The truth, the secret, what secret is it if everyone who shared the locker room with him already knows? Is that Modric has never looked back, never rested in the present, but always thought about how to move forward. He studied himself, his engine, his capacity, as Sarri would say. Perhaps this is also why he chose to manage his involvement with the national team: not to save himself, but driven by his unstoppable desire to remain a winner."
"It is true, in life you can do many things, but the difference is always one: how you do them. One thing is to put in effort, another is to add passion. One thing is to realize you need to slow down, another is to do it before it becomes necessary. Before, yes. Before having to tell your story in another way. No longer the protagonist, no longer at the center of attention, no longer, as he has always been, a winner."
"Today, at 40, the priority is to still be a winner with Milan. He has clearly promised himself to the club with the same dedication, desire, and energy he had as a young man. That allowed him to break through an apparently insurmountable wall, full of prejudices. Can we admit it? No one expected to see him still there, orchestrating play for an entire match. You will see, he will be important in the final half-hour, perhaps useful on the bench as an example to younger players, those who feel misunderstood if they do not play every Sunday. Raise your hand if you never thought, when Tare, as he did with Klose and Lucas Leiva, realized he was not facing a former Ballon d’Or, but a genius who had left past successes behind to imagine new ones"
