The 19-year-old is now staying in Zagreb with his parents after a loan spell at Bosnian league side Mostar Zlinski. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After joining the youth team of Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 16, Modric's family left his hometown of Zadar, where his parents took a job.

However, the economic situation in Croatia is not good, and Modric's parents do not have a high salary, and they are still renting houses.

At the Haske training ground in Dynamo Zagre, Dynamo Zagre has already started training for the new season in preparation for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup against their opponents on 12 August.

Leon had inquired about the situation before he arrived, and he was also glad that his team had qualified for the UEFA Cup through the Spanish Copa del Rey winners, and that Sporting Gijón did not need to play in the second round of the League Cup qualifying round in early August, they could go directly to the third round of the qualifying tournament starting in September, which gave Sporting Gijón more time to prepare, especially since they only finished the promotion play-offs in early July, which bought them valuable time.

***********

Leon appeared on the sidelines of the training pitch and was watching Modric.

It was not difficult to find Modric among the twenty or thirty players, and the nineteen-year-old was conspicuous in the crowd.

Because it was the start of the new season, Dinamo Zagreb did not arrange confrontation training, but simply group training.

The young Luka Modric appeared extremely serious and somewhat silent in training.

Even though it was only a group training, Leon was able to see something, and Modric had good technique on his feet and good reflexes.

Eastern European players have solid basic skills, and they dare to fight in the game, which is the reason why many coaches like Eastern European players.

It can be said that although Modric is still very immature, it can be seen that the foundation of this young man has been laid very well. What is lacking now is the tempering of the game.

Modric is not a well-known player, nor is he a player like Grosso who has played in the professional league for many years, and the contact details of their agent are easy to obtain, and Leon even doubts that Modric has a regular agent of his own now.

Therefore, he could not contact Modric's agent, so he took the most direct method and flew to Croatia to interview Modric himself.

Another advantage of this approach is that it shows his sincerity, which is great for a young player to have a manager from a big five league team who has traveled all the way just for him.

***********

Dinamo Zagreb is a Croatian giants with many fans.

After the training, many fans came up to ask for autographs from the stars, and the most popular ones were, of course, the ones who were in charge.

As for young people like Modric, apparently there has been little attention, and no one has come up to him for an autograph.

Although he did well on loan to a team in the Bosnian league, it did not give Modric many fans in Croatia, just like a young rookie of a Chinese Super League team who performed well after being loaned to the Malaysian league, but it did not attract much attention from the fans in his home country.

Modric looked at the big-name stars who were surrounded by fans and asked for autographs with some envy, and was stunned for a moment, and then silently walked towards the locker room.

He decided to go home and talk to his father, the young man was very worried about his future, and before today's training began, the club's head coach spoke to him and made it clear that there was still no place for him in the first team and the team decided to continue to send him out on loan.

This is a notice from the club, not an inquiry if he is willing to go out on loan. Luka Modric didn't even have a choice of which team to go to on loan, and the club gave him where to go, so he could only do what he was told, and that's the way young players have to go.

Modric, who was walking with his head down, was stunned to find that someone was blocking in front of him, and he subconsciously avoided it, but this person had moved footsteps to block him.

Modric looked up and saw an oriental face, and he looked at the man in amazement, as well as a notebook and a pen that the man handed him.

"Can you sign me?" the man asked, smiling.

Modric was stunned, although this person's Croatian language is not standard, but he can understand it, Modric nodded a little shyly, "Of course you can." ”

He took the notebook and the pen, then signed his name very seriously, and handed the notebook and pen back to the other party.

***********

Leon himself was actually quite surprised, after coming to Croatia, he found that he actually understood Croatian, and then the memory in his mind began to revive, and he was surprised to find that he knew Croatian.

This is all because in this life he had spent time in Eastern Europe when he had been abroad, but not in Croatia, but in Slovenia, and both Slovenia and Croatia speak the same language.

This was very good news for Leon, who was worried that Modric would not speak English and that the two would not be able to communicate.

Taking the notebook and pen handed back by Modric, Leon smiled, "Mr. Luca Modric, can you have a chat?"

"Sorry, I have my own agent. Modric immediately said that as a young rookie of Dinamo Zagreb, although he is not yet famous, this does not prevent some agents from coming to him, he is far away from this, he has heard of the bad deeds of some agents, an agent with a bad character, will ruin his career, so Modric is now letting his father temporarily act as an agent. This is also common in football, and it is possible for a loved one to come as an agent and give them peace of mind. Of course, this is no problem at the beginning, but if you want to develop more later, it is very necessary to find a reliable and influential agent.

"I think you're mistaken. Leon smiled, "I'm not an agent. ”

Modric was surprised, he was not a self-recommended agent, so what is there to talk about to find himself?

"Are you a scout?" Modric thought of another possibility.

"Introduce yourself. Instead of answering Modric's question, Leon introduced himself and said, "Leon!" is the head coach of La Liga team Sporting Gijon. ”

Modric was stunned, he could never forget this day in the summer of 2004, when he was most confused about the future, a Chinese suddenly appeared in front of him, asked himself for an autograph, and then introduced himself as the manager of the La Liga team, and then said to himself-

"Interested in playing in La Liga? Well, I mean my team. Leon smiled and continued.

ps: First update. (To be continued.) )