Zagreb - Real Madrid's Luka Modric was charged Friday with giving false testimony at the corruption trial of Dinamo Zagreb's powerful former chief Zdravko Mamic, prosecutors said.

The 32-year-old midfielder was charged with "committing the criminal offence of giving false testimony" last June during a trial against Mamic and three others before a local tribunal, a prosecutors' statement said.

In line with Croatian law the prosecutors did not name Modric as the indictee but identified him as a "Croatian citizen born in 1985."

Local media identified him as Modric.