1. Toni Kroos is the most decorated German football player, as he won 34 trophies over his 17 year career.
61 Facts About Toni Kroos
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Toni Kroos began his senior club career at Bayern Munich, where he debuted at age 17 in 2007.
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Toni Kroos was used sparingly for Bayern and he went on loan to fellow Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen for 18 months, where he became a key contributor.
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In Madrid, Toni Kroos won twenty-one trophies, including four La Liga titles and five UEFA Champions League trophies, three of which he won consecutively from 2016 to 2018.
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Toni Kroos was named in the Champions League team of the season each time.
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Toni Kroos was named in the FIFA FIFPRO World 11 four times, UEFA Team of the Year three times, and the La Liga Team of the Season twice.
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Toni Kroos was named the IFFHS World's Best Playmaker in 2014 and German Footballer of the Year in 2018 and 2024.
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Toni Kroos won the Golden Player award at the 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and the Golden Ball at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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Toni Kroos made his senior debut for Germany in 2010, at age 20, and appeared in seven major tournaments.
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Toni Kroos helped Germany win the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where he was top assister and named in the All-Star Team and Dream Team.
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Toni Kroos was born in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany, on 4 January 1990.
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Toni Kroos was born in the last year of East Germany's existence, several weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall and nine months before German reunification.
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Toni Kroos's mother Britta was an East German national badminton champion and his father Roland was a footballer and at that time, he managed Hansa Rostock's youth team.
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Toni Kroos has a younger brother, Felix Kroos, who was a professional footballer.
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Toni Kroos first played for local club Greifswalder SC, later transferring to the youth team of Hansa Rostock.
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Toni Kroos was missing up to 40 days during the school year due to training.
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Toni Kroos ended his first season with 20 appearances for Bayern, including six starts.
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Toni Kroos scored three goals in 12 appearances for Bayern Munich II in the Regionalliga Sud.
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On 31 January 2009, Bayern allowed Toni Kroos to join Bayer Leverkusen on an 18-month loan to gain first team experience.
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Between matchdays 16 and 20, Toni Kroos registered five goals and four assists in five Bundesliga matches, earning him back-to-back "player of the month" awards from kicker for December 2009 and January 2010.
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Toni Kroos ended the season with nine goals and 12 assists from 33 matches.
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Toni Kroos ended the season with 37 appearances in all competitions.
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Toni Kroos played 51 matches in all competitions during the season, including the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, where Bayern were beaten on penalties by Chelsea at the Allianz Arena.
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Toni Kroos scored his first Champions League goal in Bayern's opening group match against Valencia.
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On 17 July 2014, Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid announced that they had reached an agreement for the transfer of Toni Kroos, signing a six-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
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Toni Kroos became the ninth German player, after Gunter Netzer, Paul Breitner, Uli Stielike, Bernd Schuster, Bodo Illgner, Christoph Metzelder, Mesut Ozil, and Sami Khedira, to join Real Madrid.
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Toni Kroos played in his debut match against Sevilla in the 2014 UEFA Super Cup on 12 August 2014, winning his first trophy at Real Madrid.
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Toni Kroos was part of a midfield trio with James Rodriguez and Luka Modric that led Real Madrid to 22-game winning run late in the year.
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Toni Kroos was named to the FIFA FIFPRO World 11 and the UEFA Team of the Year.
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Benitez was replaced in the middle of the season by Zinedine Zidane, under whom Toni Kroos continued to be a key midfield player.
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Los Blancos' triumph at San Siro meant that Toni Kroos became the first-ever German to lift the Champions League trophy with two clubs.
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In 2016, Toni Kroos became a part of a collaboration between the German Football Association and The LEGO Group, who in May released a Europe-exclusive collectible minifigure series, with Toni Kroos featured as the tenth of sixteen minifigures in the collection.
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Toni Kroos became the first German player to win the trophy three times.
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On 11 February 2023, Toni Kroos broke his own record by gaining his sixth FIFA Club World Cup title, one with Bayern Munich and five with Real Madrid.
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On 21 June 2023, Toni Kroos extended his contract with Real Madrid for one more year, keeping him until June 2024.
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On 21 May 2024, Toni Kroos announced that he would retire from club and international football after UEFA Euro 2024.
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In January 2010, Toni Kroos was called up to the senior Germany team for the first time, for a training session in Sindelfingen and was named in the squad for the following match, a friendly against Argentina on 3 March 2010, in which he subsequently made his debut for the national side.
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Toni Kroos was selected to Joachim Low's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
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Toni Kroos made further appearances as a substitute in the quarter-finals against Argentina, in the semi-finals against Spain and in the third place play-off against Uruguay.
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Toni Kroos established himself as a regular starter in Germany's qualification campaign for UEFA Euro 2012, playing in eight out of a possible ten games.
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Germany won all ten qualifying matches to top group A After qualification was already ensured, Kroos scored his first two international goals, both with his strong right foot.
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Toni Kroos has made progress in the last few matches, I'm extremely satisfied with the player.
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At the tournament finals, Toni Kroos appeared as a substitute in all three of Germany's Group B matches.
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Toni Kroos was named in Germany's squad for the 2014 World Cup.
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Toni Kroos recorded his fourth assist of the tournament, crossing for Thomas Muller's opening goal, and was named man of the match by FIFA.
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Toni Kroos has been nicknamed Garcom by the Brazilians for precisely delivering most passes to the strikers.
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Toni Kroos is considered the only player from the former East Germany to ever win the World Cup.
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On 4 June 2018, Toni Kroos was included in Germany's final 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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On 22 February 2024, Toni Kroos announced that he would return to the German national team for the tournament on home soil, having been approached to do so by new manager Julian Nagelsmann.
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Toni Kroos assisted a goal seven seconds into his international return against France on 23 March 2024.
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Toni Kroos was included in the final Germany squad for the UEFA Euro 2024, which he announced in May that would be his final tournament as a professional footballer at home.
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Toni Kroos has made progress in the last few matches, I'm extremely satisfied with the player.
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Toni Kroos has been described by Jonathan Wilson as "perhaps the archetype of the modern attacking midfielder".
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Toni Kroos played in the centre as a deep-lying playmaker or even as a defensive midfielder due to his ability to both break up play, retain possession, and create chances for teammates.
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Toni Kroos has a wide variety of passes, and he can control the midfield with accurate short passes or start attacks with longer passes.
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Toni Kroos married his long-term girlfriend Jessica Farber on 13 June 2015.
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In March 2021, Toni Kroos said it was "wrong" for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar, pointing out the Gulf state's poor treatment of migrant workers and its criminalisation of homosexuality.
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Toni Kroos said that footballers should draw attention to those issues instead of boycotting the tournament.
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Toni Kroos said that he would never move to the country due to its human rights record, which prompted him to be booed while playing in the 2024 Supercopa de Espana, which was hosted in Saudi Arabia.
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Toni Kroos called for Germans to vote in the 2021 German federal election, unless they were voting for the Alternative for Germany, adding "nobody needs them".
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Toni Kroos's interview was misinterpreted and many thought he was suggesting a link between immigration and crime in Germany.