LIKE A MODEL: Raquel - Spanish stunner & Rakitic have a love story for Hollywood

Hello, everyone! Welcome to All Football column LIKE A MODEL! Today we will show you Rakitic's wife Raquel Mauri.

Raquel Mauri is the wife of Croatia World Cup star Ivan Rakitic. And they have two children, Althea and Adara.

The Barcelona ace has opened up about how he met the Spanish stunner and he believes it is a "story for Hollywood."

The 31-year-old has revealed that he met her when she served him coffee the night before he signed for Sevilla.

In a piece for The Players' Tribune, Rakitic said that he would go to her shop every morning just to see her beautiful face.

His conversations with her were restricted because of the language barrier and he asked her out "20 or 30 times".

But he made his breakthrough when he saw her drinking with her sister and not behind the bar.

Eventually, Raquel agreed to grab lunch - and seven years later the pair are still together.

He made his move, and the rest is history.

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