Toni Kroos revealed on Tuesday retire from all football following Euro 2024.
2024.05.23
“My career as an active footballer will end this summer after the Euro championship,” Kroos, 34, who won the 2014 World Cup with Germany, said on Instagram.
Toni Kroos will have the opportunity to win the Champions League with Real Madrid for the sixth time when they meet Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium on June 1.
He previously won the Champions League with Bayern Munich before joining the Spanish powerhouse.
Kroos joined Real in 2014 and instantly established a powerful midfield tandem with Luka Modric.
In a statement on their website, Real Madrid stated that Kroos “will go down in Real Madrid history as one of our club and international football’s greatest legends”.
Kroos has also won the Liga championship four times and the Bundesliga three times with Bayern.
He declared his retirement from international football in July 2021, but revised his decision in February after speaking with Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann, who encouraged him to play until the Euro 2024 on home soil.
Toni Kroos, who has 108 games and 17 goals for Germany, was a vital part in the country’s World Cup victory in Brazil in 2014, scoring twice in a 7-1 thrashing of the host nation in the semi-final.
However, four years later, he was unable to prevent Germany from being eliminated in the group stage in Russia.
He did not participate in Germany’s second World Cup group-stage elimination in a row in Qatar 2022, but after returning to international duty at Nagelsmann’s request, he will head a new-look Germany squad at Euro 2024.
“My ambition was always to finish my career at the peak of my performance level,” Kroos said on Instagram.
“I am happy and proud that in my mind I found the right timing for my decision and that I could choose it on my own.”
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