Dominik Livakovic #1

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Not even the most famous footballer in his (wider) family; through his mother Manuela he is related to Josip Skoblar, the 1971 European Golden Shoe winner, who scored 44 goals for Marseille that season. As Dominik, who also played basketball as a kid and had enrolled at a university to study international relations, was making his way in senior football, his father Zdravko — a politician and state secretary at the time — spent five months in detention for his alleged involvement in a big corruption case. In 2022, Livakovic became only the third goalkeeper in World Cup history to save three penalties in a single shoot-out; then he also saved Rodrygo’s shot in another shootout against Brazil in the quarter-finals.

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