“Like Zidane”, Toni Kroos leaves “being at the top” with Real Madrid

Toni Kroos is “the only footballer who didn’t need to run for the Santiago Bernabéu to fall in love with him”, according to the Madrid site The Confidential. During his ten seasons spent trotting on the pitch of Real Madrid’s lair, the midfielder has won over the public so much with his play “diesel”, made for “make others shine”, that the announcement, on May 21, of his sporting retirement was experienced as a “grief”.

The German is preparing to play his last match in the jersey at the age of 34. meringue during the Champions League final against Dortmund, Saturday 1^er June to London. He has already won this competition five times – once with Bayern Munich, in 2013, then four times with Real, whom he joined in the summer of 2014.

The Madrid club hoped to convince him to “stay at least one more season”, without success, says The Confidential, especially since the native of Greifswald, in the north-east of Germany, still seems to be in top form. This season, he was once again one of the