Evergreen Luka Modric stars as Croatia stun World Cup favourites Brazil

While the victorious Croatian players celebrated with each other, their supporters and their families, Brazil's beaten players were spread across the pitch like wounded soldiers
Evergreen Luka Modric stars as Croatia stun World Cup favourites Brazil

HERO: Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic (right) celebrates with team-mates after victory in the penalty shootout against Brazil at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar. Pic: Mike Egerton/PA Wire

CROATIA 1 (Petkovic 117) BRAZIL 1 (Neymar 105+1) CROATIA WON ON PENALTIES 

Football can lift your spirits, and it can crush them. Just ask Tite, the coach who resigned at the end of another huge anti-climax for the boys from Brazil.

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