Luka Modrić wins 6th Champions League title
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Luka Modrić has won his 6th UEFA Champions League title
Croatia captain Luka Modrić has won his 6th UEFA Champions League title after Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in the final at Wembley tonight.
Modrić, who came on in the 84th minute, won his first Champions League title with Real Madrid in 2014, went on to win it also in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and now in 2024.
Modrić now with 6 titles is the most any player has achieved in the game. Dani Carvajal, Toni Kroos and Nacho also has won the same number and joined Real legend Paco Gento with six titles.
Tonight was also the 13th year in row a Croatian has featured in the final of European football’s pinnacle prize.
Ivica Olić, current assistant coach of Croatia, started the incredible run of Croatians in the Champions League Final way back in 2012. Since then, every year a team in the final has had a Croatian in the squad.
Croatians in the Champions League Final
2012 – Ivica Olić (Bayern Munich)
2013 – Mario Mandžukić (Bayern Munich)
2014 – Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
2015 – Ivan Rakitić (Barcelona)
2016 – Luka Modrić, Mateo Kovačić (Real Madrid)
2017 – Luka Modrić, Mateo Kovačić (Real Madrid), Mario Mandžukić (Juventus)
2018 – Luka Modrić, Mateo Kovačić (Real Madrid), Dejan Lovren (Liverpool)
2019 – Dejan Lovren (Liverpool)
2020 – Ivan Perišić (Bayern Munich)
2021 – Mateo Kovačić (Chelsea)
2022 – Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
2023 – Marcelo Brozović (Inter)
2024 – Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
A Croatian player has also now won the title for the last eleven out of twelve years in a row.
Mario Mandžukic scored in the final against Borussia Dortmund to help Bayern Munich secure the title back in 2013.
The following season Luka Modrić won his first Champions League with Real Madrid, followed by Ivan Rakitić with Barcelona the next season. In 2016, 2017, and 2018, Modrić and Kovačić claimed the trophy with Real Madrid.
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Dejan Lovren won it with Liverpool in 2019, Ivan Perišić lifted the trophy for Bayern in 2020, Kovačić with Chelsea in 2021, Modrić again in 2022 and 2024.
