At Real Madrid, Toni Kroos is still playing at the highest level. The 32-year-old also wants to retire at this level – perhaps sooner than expected.
He didn’t want to be “lassoed off the stage”, Günter Netzer likes to explain when asked why he drew the line at 32 as a player and 41 as a successful (HSV) manager. His compatriot Toni Kroos has a similar mindset.
“I’m certainly not a player who plays until he’s 38,” the 2014 World Cup winner said in 2020. “My contract is until the summer of 2023, when I’ll be 33 – that’s a good age to decide what I want to do. In any case, it won’t be much longer. “
According to this statement, the midfielder, who always emphasises how important it is for him to spend time with his family, would possibly be playing his last season at the moment. The Spanish daily AS has learned that Kroos could actually hang up his boots as early as next summer.
Real would be prepared for Kroos’ career end
According to the report, the five-time Champions League winner is keen to go out on a high and then make room for Real’s leading players of the future, who are already chomping at the bit with Eduardo Camavinga or the recently brilliant Fede Valverde.
The AS had recently reported that another Kroos season in Madrid is as good as certain. But a great career that has already ended in the national team will definitely not last beyond the summer of 2024.