Fans are left bemused as former team-mates Casemiro and Luka Modric swap shirts at HALF-TIME
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‘Roy Keane is about to have high blood pressure!’: Fans baffled as former Real Madrid teammates Casemiro and Luka Modric swap jerseys at HALF TIME of World Cup quarter-finals between Brazil and Croatia.
Fans were taken aback when Casemiro and Luka Modric swapped jerseys as they walked off at halftime between Brazil and Croatia.
The teams of Tite and Zlatko Dalic played an entertaining first half, but both struggled to create meaningful chances as the teams reached halftime.
As the players left for half-time, the cameras caught Casemiro chasing his former Real Madrid teammate and asking to exchange shirts. Modric obediently agreed, removing his shirt as they walked away.
Fans were taken aback when Casemiro and Luka Modric swapped jerseys at the halftime whistle.
Social media was awash with bewilderment over the move, with one follower asking if the World Cup quarter-final tie was in fact a “war” as normally advertised.
‘Why do Modric and Casemiro exchange shirts?’ they asked. “I thought this was 90 minutes of war without the bromance.”
Another wrote: ‘Casemiro wanting to swap jerseys with Modric at half time of World Cup quarter-finals… seriously?’
Some observers speculated what Roy Keane’s reaction might have been in the locker room
Another follower seemed to agree, speculating what Roy Keane would have done to any of them had he been in the locker room.
“For Casemiro to ask Modric for his jersey in HT in a knockout game when he’s played shit and he’s sending him there is so fucking bad,” they wrote.
‘Roy Keane would have his fucking guts!’
“Former Real Madrid teammates Luka Modric and Casemiro exchanged shirts at half-time,” another observer noted. Roy Keane is about to have high blood pressure.
Another quipped: ‘Don’t nobody tell Roy Keane!’
Others said that the two had earned the right to swap jerseys after their success together.
Others were less critical, with another observer saying they had “earned the right” to swap jerseys after their glorious years together at Real Madrid.
‘The joy police won’t like it: Modric and Casemiro exchanging shirts at half-time. I think they have earned the right,’ they wrote.
Modric and Casemiro formed the foundation of one of the most successful iterations of modern Real Madrid, winning five Champions League crowns together between 2014 and 2022.
Brazil were looking to reach their 10th World Cup semifinal, while Croatia were looking to reach their third, having done so in 1998 and 2018.
