Luka Modric: ‘Things that aren’t nice happen in war but I don’t have hate’ | Sid Lowe
09-Sep-2020 16:00:18 | The Guardian
The Croatia and Real Madrid midfielder discusses the murder of his grandfather, living in exile and his fear as a child
“The house is still there, you can see it from the road,” Luka Modric says, turning towards the iPad screen and his earliest memories, moments that made him. There are warm memories, he insists, yet there are painful ones too – both centred on a place to which he returns and supporters sometimes visit but where he still has not taken his children. Ivano is 10, Ema seven and Sofia almost three. “They are still a bit young and I didn’t want to talk to them about these stories yet,” he says. “Maybe in a few years.”
They are not easy stories to tell. “They have been [in the village] and seen where I used to live, but I didn’t speak to them about what happened and all those things. In the future, there will be things I can tell them, just not yet,” he says. “But I will take them, I will take them.”
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