Toni Kroos kept his promise. He always said that he would leave football at the top of his level, and so it will be. The German midfielder from Real Madrid announced this Tuesday, through his podcast, that this is his last active season. He will play in the Champions League final with the white team on June 1 in London against Dortmund, in the summer he will defend his country again in the Euro Cup, and there his journey on the fields will end. At 34 years old and after one of the best campaigns of his career. No sooner said than done. “I have thought for many months about what to do and the truth is that there are pros and cons, as always, but I am convinced that it is what I want. “It is the right decision for me,” he stated in his speech in Spanish lasting just over four minutes.
The argument for his goodbye followed the line of what he had been affirming in campaigns. He was looking for a farewell as high as possible. “I have always wanted that, if in a few years you talk about Toni Kroos, you remember what I was like. I always wanted to live up to what I have now and I have always said it: when I leave Madrid, I will leave football. People say that I can play for a few more years and maybe that’s the case, but I don’t want to get to a point where people think why I still play, that I don’t have a level, I’m on the bench, I don’t enjoy it… I don’t want to get there. Therefore, I want to finish at the best moment. And the best time is now,” explained the German, who recalled that his idea was always to retire at Real Madrid. “This season is one of the best I have played and I think it is a very good time to leave,” he insisted.
Last year, with the contract about to expire, its continuity was already one of the unknowns that were not resolved until the last moment. Finally, he renewed for one more year, but his well-known intention of not extending his career too much made the doubt return to the scene at the beginning of the year.
Two months ago, during a public appearance monopolized by the question of her future, she already let it slip that her career was stretching her further than she initially thought. “I started as a professional very young, at 17 years old, at Bayern. He thought he would last 15 years and that’s it. But still having desire and motivation surprises me more than my body,” she explained then, when she assured that the decision had not yet been made.
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