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Hungry Kroos has appetite for 'cheesy' career finale
The Straits Times
|June 13, 2024
Germany veteran Toni Kroos is hoping to sign off from his national career with a dream victory on home soil in Euro 2024 and admitted on June 11 that the prospect was almost "a bit too cheesy".
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The 34-year-old lifted the Champions League for a sixth time in his last match for Real Madrid as the Spanish giants beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 on June 1. The 2014 World Cup winner is set to retire after the European Championship.
He stepped down from international duty after Germany's last-16 Euro exit to England in 2021 but answered a call in February from coach Julian Nagelsmann to return to the squad.
Speaking at Germany's training base in the Bavarian village of Herzogenaurach, a "hungry" Kroos said he would not have come back if he did not believe in a sentimental ending.
"That ending would be a bit too cheesy, with the Champions League and the European Championship, but I'll take it," he added.
"I still want to be successful and I want to win the tournament this summer. That's quite clear.
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