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An indisputable icon of European football speaks out on a possible Ballon d’Or coronation.
Toni Kroos has decided to bow out after a successful 2023-24 season with Real Madrid. A year marked by triumphs in the Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup and by an elimination in the quarter-finals of the Euro with Germany.
A great architect of Madrid’s conquests, the former German midfielder had seen his name circulated on several occasions among the serious contenders for the 2024 Ballon d’Or. But while Vinicius Junior, his former club teammate, has been in the running for several months like the future winner and successor to Lionel Messi, Kroos would like to point out that he never had the ambition to win this supreme distinction.
Kroos votes for three Merengues
“I think this award is not important to me,” confided the former Blancos maestro in the Spanish show Telediario. “If it’s a Real Madrid player who wins it, that’s fine with me. »
The 2014 world champion still mentioned his three favorites for the trophy. “Vinicius deserves it, Jude (Bellingham, editor’s note) deserves it, Carvajal deserves it… I don’t care”declared the newly retired, who appears in the list of 30 nominees revealed by France Football in September.
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