Even after their return, the enthusiasm continues: thousands of football-loving Croats gave Luka Modrić and his team-mates Šime Vrsaljko, Danijel Subašić and Dominik Livaković a fitting welcome on land and on the water. The applause for the heroes of Moscow culminated in “suba-suba” calls, as Danijel Subašić jumped from aboard the sailing ship Branimir into the water.
But before that, Ante Lipovac, a crew member of the SeaHelp task force Zadar, took the opportunity to give his idol Luka Modrić fortifying sweets from his homeland. As a precaution, SeaHelp was already on site to intervene quickly if one of the many boats that escorted the Branimir had a breakdown.
