And Croatian Football Federation president Vlatko Markovic thinks the timing of Modric's injury is no coincidence.
Ms Markovic is believed to be holed up with her husband in their palatial residence in Belgrade.
Eleven years ago, the last prime minister of unified Yugoslavia, Ante Markovic, launched a last-ditch plan for economic stabilisation.
The court dropped a separate charge against Markovic for illegal possession of weapons.
But perhaps even more important to Mr Milosevic is his wife, Mira Markovic.
Markovic was arrested in February on suspicion of orchestrating a 1999 motorway car crash intended to kill then opposition leader Vuk Draskovic.
It later emerged Markovic was also being investigated for revealing state secrets.
Meanwhile, there are signs that the socialists want to dump JUL as allies because they see JUL and Ms Markovic as a serious electoral liability.
Radomir Markovic, the once-feared head of state security, was among three defendants sentenced on Friday to a year in jail on charges of revealing state secrets.
Markovic, born in 1946, was secret police chief from 1998 until January this year, when he was replaced on the same day as the new reformist Serbian government took office.
Markovic, Branko Crni, Nikola Curic and Milan Radonjic, who were also high-ranking state security officers, are the first top Milosevic aides to be sentenced since Milosevic was overthrown last October.
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