{"id":34937,"date":"2026-05-05T18:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/hope-rises-in-milan-around-modric-as-the-croatian-returns-to-training-from-surgery\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:31:43","slug":"hope-rises-in-milan-around-modric-as-the-croatian-returns-to-training-from-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/hope-rises-in-milan-around-modric-as-the-croatian-returns-to-training-from-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope rises in Milan around Modric, as the Croatian returns to training from surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HHZ-kABW4AA9YsN-600x600-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Reports in Italy claim that Luka Modric has returned to Milan&#8217;s training center this morning.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Rossoneri are hoping to see the Croatian back on the pitch for the final game of the season, despite recent surgery on his cheekbone.<\/p>\n<p>Modric&#8217;s season with Milan may not be over yet, as Italian sources, including Sky Sport Italia and MilanNews, report that The 40-year-old returned to Milan on Tuesday morning for the first time since injuring his cheekbone, which required surgery two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Modric was expected to sit out Milan this season, focusing his recovery on the World Cup with Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to MilanNews, his return to Milan this morning suggests that the legend of Real Madrid will push to be ready for the final game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Milan have won just one of their last five league games and are still not assured of Champions League qualification as their lead over fifth-placed Roma has been cut to three points.<\/p>\n<p>Milan host Atalanta next weekend, then travel to Genoa in Week 37 and close the season at home to Cagliarit.\/Express<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in Italy claim that Luka Modric has returned to Milan&#8217;s training center this morning. As a result, the Rossoneri are hoping to see the Croatian back on the pitch for the final game of the season, despite recent surgery on his cheekbone. Modric&#8217;s season with Milan may not be over yet, as Italian sources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"views":17,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34939,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34937\/revisions\/34939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}