A at 8:32 p.m. on July 5, 2024, the world of football lost Toni Kroos. The German puts an end by his own decision and by the good work of Spain to a spectacular career that ends in Stuttgart con 832 games, 35 titles and an infinite number of passes. One of the best midfielders in the history of football is leaving.
Kroos had an expiration date, July 14, but the National Team, especially Mikel Merino, brought forward the retirement of the great footballer, who did not play one of his best games on the day of goodbye. The duel began especially revolutionized, with two hard innings on Pedri and Lamine Yamal. The first cost the Spanish player his injury. It took Kroos a while to enter the game, but when he did, Germany improved. Kroos was the player with the best passing success rate for his team, but he did not have the fluidity of other days. Mainly, because Spain was superior in the center of the field.
assured Kroos in the preview of the match that in no case had he thought about saying goodbye before the duel, but it was impossible that the option of playing his last match against Spain did not cross his privileged mind at any time. Among other things, because in the previous days there was talk of his retirement more than ever. “I hope we retire him”said Joselu and Pedri, at the same time highlighting the career of a player who had already warned that he would not have an excessively long career. And he complied.
Kroos He retires how he wants and when he wants, but not how he dreamed. In January he designed the goodbye plan to retire in his country and with the national team after a final season at Real Madrid. In his head, winning everything with Madrid and the Euro with Germany. And he hasn’t been far from achieving it. The League and the Champions League put an ideal culmination to his 10-year career in Madrid, but with Germany he was left on the threshold of the quarterfinals.
The future of Kroos It seemed that it would be decided from the penalty spot, after a harrowing extra time in which the German player himself had to be treated for cramps in his calves. He left everything on the field, but Merino y Elm tree, great in the center, they ended their dream. He retires a genius.
