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Too small.
Too weak.
Ballon d'Or.

Before winning the Ballon d'Or and 6 Champions League titles with Real Madrid, Luka Modrić grew up as a refugee in a war zone in Croatia—practicing football in a hotel parking lot surrounded by landmines. Even after surviving the war, scouts at Hajduk Split rejected him for being "too small and too weak." Here is how he proved the entire world wrong.

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