BREAKING: Toni Kroos announced on social media that he will retire after Euro 2024, and Real Madrid will be his last club.
Toni Kroos statement:
July 17th, 2014 – the day of my presentation at Real Madrid, the day that changed my life. My life as a footballer – but especially as a person. It was the start of a new chapter at the biggest club in the world. After 10 years, at the end of the season this chapter comes to an end. I will never forget that insolent successful time! I would particularly like to thank everyone that welcomed me with an open heart and trusted me. But especially I would like to thank you, dear Madridistas, for your affection and your love from the first day until the last one. At the same time this decision means that my career as an active footballer will end this summer after the Euro championship. As I have always said: Real Madrid is and will be my last club. I am happy and proud, that in my mind I found the right timing for my decision and that I could choose it by my own. My ambition was always to finish my career at the peak of my performance level. From now on there is only one leading thought: a por la 15!!! HALA MADRID Y NADA MAS!
REAL MADRID STATEMENT:
Real Madrid C. F. communicates that Toni Kroos has decided to end his career as a professional soccer player after Euro 2024.
Real Madrid wants to express its gratitude and affection to Toni Kroos, a player who is already part of the history of Real Madrid and who is one of the great legends of our club and world football.
Toni Kroos arrived at our club in 2014, and has been a fundamental player in one of the most successful stages in the 122-year history of Real Madrid. During the ten seasons in which he has defended our shirt and our shield, he has achieved 22 titles in 463 matches so far: 4 European Cups, 5 Club World Cups, 4 European Super Cups, 4 Leagues, 1 King’s Cup and 4 Spanish Super Cups.
In addition to his titles won with Real Madrid, Toni Kroos was proclaimed world champion with the German national team in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
With Bayern Munich, he won 1 European Cup, 1 Club World Cup, 1 European Super Cup, 3 Bundesligas, 3 German Cups and 2 German Super Cups.
At the individual level, Toni Kroos has been included three times in the eleven FIFA FIFA World 11 World Championship, was named the Best Game Creator in 2014 by the IFFHS and was the Golden Ball as the best player of the 2007 U-17 World Cup in Korea.
Toni Kroos will remain forever in the heart of all Madrid players for the excellence of his football and for being a player who has given everything for this shirt, always representing the values of Real Madrid.
The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, states that “Toni Kroos is one of the great players in the history of Real Madrid and that this club is and will always be his home.”
Real Madrid wishes him and his whole family good luck in this new stage of his life.
