Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic has opened up on how he met his Spanish wife Raquel Mauri. Rakitic, 30, felt his love story is fit for Hollywood. In his article for The Players' Tribune that was published recently, the Barcelona ace revealed that he met Mauri at a coffee shop on the night before he signed for Sevilla back in 2011.

"I knew the following day I had my medicals and then the contract with the president, so I was nervous. I didn't want to sleep, so I went to the hotel bar with my brother for a coffee. The woman who is now my wife was serving. It was January 27," Rakitic wrote. "I would go to her shop every morning just to see her beautiful face. My conversations with her were restricted because of the language barrier," he added.