8Man Citycentral midfielder06.05.1994 (31 year)height 177weight 78nationality Croatia
Club season 2024/2025
42Games
7Goals
3Assists
🎩 Who is the best central midfielder of 2024/25 season?
  • Alexis Mac Allister
    39%
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  • Declan Rice
    25%
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  • Enzo Fernández
    17%
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  • Mateo Kovačić
    2%
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  • Nicolò Barella
    4%
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Biography

Birthplace: Linz, Austria
Career: Man City (Transfer, €29.1 m, 27.06.2023) Chelsea ... Dinamo ZagrebShow more
Career goals: 40Show more
Career matches: 738Show more

Written by Alex Holiga for Telesport:

Despite all of his club trophies — and he has won plenty, including no less than four Champions League titles, although he played in only one final, for Chelsea against Manchester City in 2021, and that was for 10 minutes — as well as his 100 caps, Mateo Kovacic has never been among the most popular players in Croatia. Maybe it’s a lack of natural charisma, or the fact that he has always been in Modric’s shadow, or the impression that he never says anything remotely interesting in interviews. He is sometimes referred to as “the Altar Boy” – because, well, he was an altar boy and met his future wife while she was in the choir – so people were taken by surprise when he grabbed the mic on stage at the 2018 World Cup homecoming rally in Zagreb only to mutter: “We’re drunk as little pussycats.” It was a particularly bizarre one-off moment in an otherwise solid career.