Toni Kroos is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Real Madrid and the German national team,born in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is the older brother of Felix Kroos also a footballer with Union Berlin where he plays as midfielder.
His father Roland works as youth coach for Hansa Rostock. During his youth, he was not the most outstanding student and spent a lot of time practising football,however, he was well-behaved in class and well liked among his peers at school.
He was a member of FC Bayern Munich a German club’s at the age of 17, he played in a 18-month loan spell at Bayer Leverkusen, before going back to Munich and winning back-to-back Bundesliga titles and the 2012–13 Champions League.
Still at this age, he was part of the Germany youth teams and was named best player in the 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and won the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Ball.
In 2010, he was involved in his forst international field appearance where he was included in the Germany squad which reached the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and UEFA Euro 2012. He was also part of the team that won the 2014 World Cup, becoming the first footballer born in East Germany to win the competition. Kroos was the Assist leader of the tournament, and was named to the 2014 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team and Dream Team. At the 2016 Euros, he was elected to the Team of the Tournament.
Right before the 2010 world cup he participated in a friendly against Argentina in which he subsequently made his debut for the national side.
He made his FIFA World Cup debut in Germany’s final group-stage match versus Ghana, coming on in the 80th minute for Bastian Schweinsteiger, with Germany leading 1–0. He 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.
Kroos was elected in FIFPro World XI, the UEFA Team of the Year three times and was named the IFFHS World’s Best Playmaker in 2014. He has been praised by journalists and former professionals as a player with all the qualities for the role of an attacking midfielder, and been widely considered one of the best midfielders in the world.
Kroos later joined Real Madrid on a six year contract for a fee of £20 million soon after Germany won the 2014 FIFA World Cup.While at Los Blancos Kroos, he won the 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18 UEFA Champions Leagues and was elected to the squad of the season in the last five seasons, becoming the first German ever to win four UCL titles.
The German footballer now became the ninth German player, after Günter Netzer, Paul Breitner, Uli Stielike, Bernd Schuster, Bodo Illgner, Christoph Metzelder, Mesut Özil, and Sami Khedira, to join Real Madrid. He played in his first match while at Real Madrid against Sevilla in the 2014 UEFA Super Cup , where he won his first trophy with the club.
He was part of a midfield trio with James Rodríguez and Luka Modrić that led Real Madrid to 22-game winning run late in the year.
On November 2014, Kroos scored his first goal for Real Madrid in a 5–1 win over Rayo Vallecano, at home.Then in December, he helped the team win the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup.
Toni Kroos was praised even by the immediate former Los Blancos Manager Zidane where he even termed it as the perfect signing for the club.
He was a regular starter when the team won the 2015–16 Champions League, his second Champions League trophy. Los Blancos‘ triumph at San Siro meant that Kroos became the first-ever German to lift the Champions League trophy with two different clubs.
During the 2016-2017, he signed a new contract until 2022, and by the end of the year he was once again nominated to the FIFPro World XI and the UEFA Team of the Year.He was a regular starter when Madrid won the 2016–17 La Liga and later defended their title in the 2016–17 Champions League. He became the first German player to win the trophy three times.
During the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, he made twelve appearances, when Madrid won their third consecutive and 13th overall Champions League title.
During Germany’s 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, Kroos scored his first two competitive international goals in a 6–1 win over the Republic of Ireland in Dublin. On 6 September 2013, he scored the team’s second goal in a 3–0 win over Austria.
Kroos was named in Germany’s squad for the 2014 World Cup. In the team’s opening match, a 4–0 defeat of Portugal, Kroos started in midfield and assisted Mats Hummelsfor Germany’s second goal. In the semi-final against the host nation Brazil, Kroos scored two goals two minutes apart (24′ and 26′) in Germany’s 7–1 win. He also recorded his fourth assist of the tournament, crossing for Thomas Müller’s opening goal, and was named man of the match by FIFA.Kroos has been nicknamed Garçom(“waiter” in Portuguese) by the Brazilians for precisely delivering most passes to the strikers.
On 11 July, Kroos was named on the ten-man shortlist for FIFA’s Golden Ball award for the tournament’s best player.
The Castrol Performance Index, the official statistical analyser of the World Cup, rated Kroos as the best player at the 2014 World Cup, with a rating of 9.79 out of 10
Kroos is currently among the 23 man squad for Germany at 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia