Toni Kroos assesses his resignation and talks about a comeback
Toni Kroos became world champion with the German national team in 2014. Image: imago sportfotodienst / Jan Hübner / Voigt
After 106 international matches, Toni Kroos ended in summer. After the bitter end in the European Championship round of 16 against England, the 31-year-old resigned from the German national team.
A decision that the Real Madrid midfielder does not regret five months later. He is still “absolutely” behind the decision to want to spend more time with his family in the future, he says in the podcast “Einfach mal Luppen”, which he publishes together with his brother Felix.
“Now, half a year after my resignation, it’s not like I was missing anything”, he was looking at the numerous World Cup qualifiers that the DFB team had to do in September, October and November.
Especially the last matches in North Macedonia or at home against Liechtenstein were matches “where even before that, as an active player, you said ‘okay, you have to play it’“, is how Kroos assesses the encounters.” But it is not the games that make it so tingly. ”
Thoughts on the German national team during the World Cup
These games are mainly during a European Championship or World Cup – for example at the World Cup in Qatar in winter 2022. And then the four-time Champions League winner also thinks a little wistfully about his time with the DFB team.
“If you also know what is going on in the team and that you are there for a goal, then I believe that during a tournament like this it can happen that you say: Wow, the game would be great now. All of Germany is watching.“But then he adds:” Oh well, that’s the way it is. ”
His resignation from the national team has also ensured that. That he has a share in that. That. That. That he has a share in being leaders in the Spanish league.
After his pubic bone inflammation, which made him miss the whole of August and September, he is now in top shape again. “I had a long rehab and a good feeling when I came back. The way we worked there has already helped me to get in good shape.”
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