The Argentine national team will always have a particular meaning for Luka Modric. Captain of Croatia made his international debut over sixteen and a half years ago in a match against Albiceleste.
It was on March 1, 2006, at St. Jakob Park, that the exquisite player of Zadar began his career with the Croatian senior national team. He was 20 years old at the time and he was a young man who was starting to win in Dinamo Zagreb.
Zlatko Kranjcar offers him his debut on the eve of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the young environment begins to show his class, even his cheek, against Juan Román Riquelme, Esteban Cambiasso, Hernán Crespo, Carlos Tévez and Leo Messi himself. Croatia was more effective and has imposed itself 3-2 thanks to a goal from Dario Simic in overtime. Tevez and Messi quickly distinguished themselves after the early goal of Ivan Klasnic, but that was not enough for Argentina, which bowed.
And if Luka Modrić made her international debut during this meeting, a certain Lionel Messi scored his first international goal at the same time.
16 years later, they still compete on the biggest scene
