VIDEO: Luka Modric celebrates birthday with 30-yard goal vs. Malta

This is how you ring in your 29th birthday, people.

On the day that he turned 29 years young, Luka Modric opened the scoring in Croatia's Euro 2016 qualifier versus Malta with a sensational right-footed strike from 30 yards out.

Sure, the ball may have taken a deflection or two on its way to goal, but take nothing away from Modric. After all, it's his first international goal in over three years as well as, you know, his birthday.