In Group B's beginning game, Spain's Lamine Yamal and Croatian veteran Luka Modric faced off.
When Lamie Yamal appeared for Spain in their opening group level match at Euro 2024, he became the youngest person in the history of the European Championship.
Luka Modric, a Real Madrid enemy from El Clásico, made his 176th looks for Croatia at the age of 38, which is a huge age difference of 21 times and 307 days.
That is more than the combined time of Yamal's Barcelona teammate Fermin Lopez and two additional starting Spain players, Pedri and Fermin Lopez, who both play for the club. Yamal had not even been born when Modric agreed to join Tottenham Hotspur in April 2008 and instantly hit us with his words.
Euro 2024: Prior Victors
When Modric made his Premier League debut that August, Yamal was only five months old, and even then, Yamal was only four years old.
If Spain faced Portugal after in the game, an even bigger age gap might arise, as an all-Iberian match could see Yamal face Cristiano Ronaldo or even Pepe, who is 41 years old.
Two teams who have recently had rather first exits and encouraging progress were pitted against in one of the more eye-catching matches of the opening weekend of Euro 2024.
Spain, victors of the 2008 and 2012 German Championships, reached the semi-finals of Euro 2020 but lost in the round of 16 in both World Cups on either side.
In contrast, Croatia, a persistent dark horse, finished second overall in the 2018 World Cup and advanced to the semi-finals in 2022, but they had been eliminated in the first round of the competition.
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