The captain of Croatian national football team Luka Modric was impacted by the civil war.
The Real Madrid player was only six, when his hometown of Modrici was dragged into a civil war.
Modric's home was burned to the ground.
In December 1991, the Serbian army stormed through his village, executing his grandfather among others.
Football helped him forget his pain, with his supportive family sending him to a sporting academy from an early age.
