Luka Modric was the best footballer of 2018 - driving Real Madrid to Champions League glory and taking Croatia to an unprecedented World Cup 2018 final.

Goal visited Modric's childhood home and the hotel he fled to as a refugee in a Croatia ripped apart by war to find out how a kid from a mountain side farm in Modrici became a world-beating footballer.

Check out the full Modric feature from Goal's chief correspondent Peter Staunton: http://www.goal.com/story/goal502018m...

The full Goal 50, which ranks the 50 best players of the last year, can be read here with an interactive globe showing the global nature of the beautiful game: http://www.goal.com/story/goal502018e...

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