Actual Madrid captain Luka Modric has revealed he’ll depart the Spanish giants after the top of their Membership World Cup marketing campaign this summer season.
The 39-year-old Croatia midfielder, the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner, will play his last match at Actual’s Bernabeu house once they welcome Actual Sociedad on Saturday of their last La Liga recreation of the season.
“The second has arrived. The second I by no means needed to return, however that is soccer, and in life the whole lot has a starting and an finish,” Modric mentioned on Instagram.
The Croat has received 28 trophies, together with six Champions Leagues and 4 home titles, since becoming a member of Actual from Spurs in 2012.
“I arrived in 2012 with the hope of sporting the jersey of the most effective group on this planet and the ambition to do nice issues, however I could not have imagined what got here subsequent,” he mentioned.
“Enjoying for Actual Madrid modified my life as a footballer and as an individual.
“I am proud to have been a part of one of the crucial profitable eras of the most effective membership in historical past.”
Actual will open their Membership World Cup marketing campaign towards Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal on 18 June and also will face Mexico’s Pachuca and RB Salzburg of Austria within the group stage.
Modric bagged two objectives and 6 assists in 34 appearances within the Spanish high flight this season, as Actual had been pipped to the title by Barcelona.
He additionally featured in each recreation as Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the place they had been crushed 5-1 on combination by Arsenal.
He signed a one-year contract extension final 12 months, which expires on the finish of the season.
