Goal scorer Luca Modric on his international bow after Croatia Euros exit
Goal scorer Luca Modric on his international bow after Croatia Euros exit
24/06/2024
uefa24
Leipzig Stadium, Germany
24/06/2024
uefa24
Leipzig Stadium, Germany
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00:0098 that run, that pass.
00:02Good evening, everyone.
00:10Usual rules apply, please.
00:14Raise your hand so that one of our volunteers can see you.
00:17Please state who you are, who you work for.
00:19And please only ask questions in the four languages being
00:23interpreted, Croatian, English, German, and Italian.
00:28Who would like to ask the first question?
00:29You can raise your hand, please.
00:35Hello, Radek Silomajer, 93 Mints.
00:38I know it's a tough one to answer,
00:42but you became the oldest scorer in Euro history.
00:46What do you think about it?
00:51Honestly, it doesn't mean anything to me
00:53if the team didn't help me.
01:08Hi, Luka.
01:09Good evening.
01:10As an Italian journalist, I'd like to thank you
01:12for everything you've shown.
01:14I'd like to thank you for everything you've shown,
01:18not just tonight, but throughout your career.
01:20Tonight, too, you scored a great goal
01:24after you scored a penalty.
01:27I'd like to ask you to never stop,
01:31because you're one of the greatest footballers
01:33I've ever heard from.
01:35Thank you.
01:42Thank you.
01:44Thank you for your kind words.
01:47Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
01:52I'd like to be able to play football forever,
01:55but I'll have to stop at some point.
02:01I don't know how much longer I'll last,
02:04but thank you for your kind words.
02:07Thank you.
02:17Luka, can you tell us how you've survived
02:19the last 45 seconds,
02:21half a minute, a minute?
02:23How much did you drown,
02:25if you can tell us a little bit about that?
02:29It was stressful.
02:31How are we going to survive?
02:33We fought like lions until the end.
02:36Unfortunately, football was cruel to us,
02:39especially today and in the last match.
02:42We conceded two goals in the last seconds
02:46and that's football.
02:51Sometimes it brings you a lot of luck,
02:53sometimes it's tough,
02:55like it did for us.
02:57We didn't lose,
02:59but it's like we lost.
03:03It's really hard.
03:05It's hard to find some words
03:07to describe the situation at the moment,
03:10both for the players and for me,
03:12and probably for the fans.
03:14We'll have to get used to it.
03:16I've said it before,
03:18if you have to fall in some way,
03:21it's like we did today.
03:23We fought from the beginning,
03:25we gave everything for Croatia
03:27and that's how Croatia is.
03:29Regardless of the result
03:31and the cruelty of the result.
03:33We deserved more,
03:35but that's football.
03:37I repeat,
03:39I can be proud
03:41of how we represented Croatia,
03:44but that doesn't mean much to us.
04:02Definitely one of them,
04:04but I think it's hard
04:06and it can be
04:12harder than the match
04:14against Turkey in 2008.
04:16But this is definitely
04:18in that competition,
04:20but it's still
04:22the saddest and worst day
04:24when it comes to
04:26representative football.
04:36Thank you.