Your WhatsApp status says quite a lot about you. “Updating my WhatsApp status,” for the banter merchants, “Terrible chat guaranteed,” for people keen to impress and “Hey! I’m using WhatsApp,” for those of us too bored, busy or technologically incompetent to change it. Luka Modric, however, has got something altogether different on his – a mission statement.
“We are what we repeatedly do,” reads the Real Madrid midfielder’s bio. “Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
First coined by American philosopher Will Durant in 1926, the phrase epitomises the meticulous way in which Modric can control a football match. Simple, unfussy, yet routinely brilliant. Cristiano Ronaldo may provide the killer instinct, or Isco a sprinkle of playmaking stardust, but it is the pint-sized Croatian who gets the European…
