“I didn’t know this had come to light”. Dani Olmo, 28, donates 2% of his gross salary every year to families in Vukovar, ever since leaving Dinamo Zagreb.
His representative, Andy Bara, revealed it on the Inkubator podcast: Olmo started doing it at Leipzig and continues it at Barcelona. According to Bara, the sums are significant because Olmo earns a great deal of money.
Other media outlets report that the aid also reaches Slavonski Brod through Common Goal, the organization launched by Juan Mata.
When asked at the press conference ahead of the Croatia-Spain Nations League match, he didn’t make a speech: “When I left, I felt indebted to Croatia and wanted to give something back”.
The Croatian journalists gave him a standing ovation. Olmo arrived in that country at 16, lived there for almost six years, and speaks Croatian fluently.
Vukovar suffered an 87-day siege in 1991. Today, a footballer who no longer plays there is still repaying a debt no one ever asked him to pay.