Toni Kroos announces retirement after Euro 2024 | sports

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5/21/2024–|Last updated: 5/21/202403:33 PM (Mecca time)

Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos announced today, Tuesday, that he will retire permanently after the European Cup (Euro 2024) finals scheduled in his country next summer.

Kroos, 34, wrote in an emotional statement on Instagram, “My football career will end this summer, after the European Cup. As I have always said, Real Madrid is my last team and it will be so,” stressing that his ambition has always been “to end the season at the best level.”

He added, “On July 17, 2014 – the day I was introduced to Real Madrid, which changed my life as a football player. It was the beginning of a new chapter in the biggest club in the world. After 10 years, at the end of the season, this chapter ends.”

The 2014 world champion with the “Manschaft” team continued that he would never forget that “successful” time and added, “I would especially like to thank everyone who welcomed me with an open heart and trusted me. But especially I would like to thank you, dear ones, for your affection and love from day one.” Until the last day.”

Kroos, whose contract with Merengue will expire at the end of June, added, “At the same time, this decision means that my career as a football player will end this summer after the European Cup. As I have always said: Real Madrid is my last team and it will be so. I am happy and proud that I am in “My mind set the right timing for my decision, and that I could choose it myself. My ambition has always been to finish my career at the peak of my level.”

He concluded his statement by saying, “From now on, there is only one idea: winning the 15th title!!! Hala Madrid and nothing more!” In reference to the European Champions League, where Royal Royal will meet German club Borussia Dortmund in the final match early next June at Wembley Stadium in London.

Kroos won the prestigious continental competition title 4 times with the Royal Club, and once with Bayern Munich, his former German team.

Real praises Kroos

In a statement, Real expressed its gratitude and love for Kroos, “a player who has already become part of Real Madrid’s history and one of the great legends of our club and world football,” saluting the “key player” who won 22 titles and played 463 matches in a Merengue shirt.

He added, “Kroos will forever remain in the hearts of all Real Madrid fans because of his excellence in football and because he is a player who gave everything for this shirt.”

Real President Florentino Pérez paid tribute to “one of the greatest players in the history of Real Madrid, who was and will always be his home.”

Kroos won the “Brazil 2014” World Cup with the German national team, and returned from a three-year international retirement last March to support his country’s national team, which is hosting the European Nations Cup during the period from June 14 to July 14, 2024.

The veteran midfielder also won 3 German League and Cup titles, and achieved the historic treble with his former team, Bayern Munich (League, Cup, and Champions League) in 2013, before joining Real Madrid in 2014.

Kroos won the Champions League title with Real Madrid 4 times, and can add a fifth title when Real Madrid faces Borussia Dortmund. He also won the Club World Cup 5 times, in addition to 4 Spanish League titles and one King’s Cup title.

Kroos is preparing to play the last two official matches of his career with Real Madrid, where he will play against Real Betis next Saturday in the final stage of the Spanish League, before facing Dortmund in the Champions League final early next month at the ancient Wembley Stadium in the capital, London.

It is noteworthy that the draw for the group stage placed the “Manschaft” in the first group of the European Nations Cup 2024, accompanied by the teams of Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland.

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