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Modric to leave Real Madrid after Club World Cup

Luka Modric

Real Madrid's Croatian midfielder Luka Modric (left) vies with Sevilla's Argentine defender Marcos Acuna during their Spanish League match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville on April 17, 2022.


Photo credit: Cristina Quicler | AFP

What you need to know:

  • His last match at the Bernabeu will be Real's final LaLiga game of the season against Real Sociedad on Saturday and the 39-year-old said he would sign off after their Club World Cup campaign which begins next month.
  • "The time has come. The moment I never wanted to come, but that's football, and in life everything has a beginning and an end... On Saturday I will play my last match at the Santiago Bernabeu," Modric wrote on Instagram.

Luka Modric will leave Real Madrid after the Club World Cup, the Croatian midfielder said on Thursday as the club's most successful player and the 2018 Ballon d'Or winner prepares to end a trophy-laden stint in Spain.

Modric, who arrived at the club from Tottenham Hotspur in 2012, has played almost 600 games for Real and won nearly 30 trophies including a record six Champions League titles and four LaLiga trophies.