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While he is going to retire at the end of Euro 2024, at 34 years old, Toni Kroos, who is preparing to play the final of the Champions League with Real Madrid, suddenly appears in the discussion for the next Ballon d’Or.
Vinicius and Jude Bellingham, Spanish champions and Champions League finalists on June 1 against Dortmund, are virtually best placed in the race for the 2024 France Football Ballon d’Or. As a reminder, the next edition will reward the best player, statistically and then collectively, of the 2023-2024 season. Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland, who left the LDC before the final, have fallen in the hierarchy of possible winners.
But nothing is done, quite simply because the result of Euro 2024 in Germany will be decisive (that of the Copa América a little less). Thus, a player who scored a LDC-Euro double could have a good chance of succeeding Lionel Messi on the list of prestigious distinctions. Lothar Matthäus, asked about the announced retirement of Toni Kroos, clearly sees the midfielder being rewarded in the event of the Mannschaft being crowned at home. “He can crown himself”adds Matthäus to Abendzeitung.
Kroos best German player in history?
Kroos Ballon d’Or 2024, it would be a superb reward for this magnificent player. At 35 years old, the player who arrived at Bayern in 2014 (from Bayern) made football lovers happy with his ability to direct the actions of the Merengues (along with Luka Modric, Ballon d’Or 2018). The talent of Real’s number 8 is not reflected in the stats (one goal and nine assists in 46 matches), but it is evident to all.
For Lothar Matthäus, who was Ballon d’Or in 1990, Kroos is “perhaps the greatest German player in history” because “he won the World Cup and so many Champions Leagues”. The player trained at Hansa Rostock won a first C1 with Bayern in 2013 (without playing in the final against Dortmund), before lifting the cup with big ears in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022 with the Merengues. A modern football legend.
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