The shadow of Toni kroos It is still very elongated in the Real Madrid More than a year after his withdrawal. The white team lifted Liga y Champions In the last campaign of the German in the Santiago Bernabéu And the last course his absence was one of the factors that marked the future of a disastrous course.
The former footballer has granted an interview to the newspaper El País in which he talks about how he made the decision to hang his boots when he crossed his best moment and takes stock of his months as a retired player.
“I retired at a very high level. I think it's hard to do better than I did in my last season in the Real Madrid. I left after winning the Champions y LaLiga. Goodbye, “explains the Greifswald35 years.
“The decision to withdraw her a lot, for several months. He did not get up one morning from the bed and said: 'I retired.' The previous year I already thought about the withdrawal but Madrid insisted a lot and decided to renew. But my idea was always the same, withdraw like this, and luckily I got it,” Kroos expanded.
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“It is best to leave it at the top. You leave with a magnificent sensation because it is you who has made the decision. Before they sent me to the bench because it was no longer so good or because it was not as important for the team, as I went until the end … Well, I preferred to leave it. I wanted to avoid all that. Neither my coach, nor my family, nor my body were going to tell me when to retire,” adds Kroos.
“For me it was not easy,” he says about the decision to hang his boots. “I left what I had been doing since I was six years old. All my life has depended on football, schedules, travel, food, when seeing my family … It is a radical change. My idea was to retire at the top. I could have followed two or three more years, but I didn't think about doing so,” he says in the interview with El País.
“I have always enjoyed football, every day. I have managed to maintain until the end the idea I had with six years of football as a game, and above all I have maintained the idea that football is only football, and that has helped me a lot when the results have been bad,” says Kroos, who was 10 seasons in Madrid after his arrival in 2014 from the Bayern Munich.
“The medicentro position is essential in modern football. Look what happened to City with Rodri's injury. A midfielder or a pivot Toni kroos! ' And all I wanted was for the thing to work well and stop saying that, ”he says Kroos.
