The recently retired German footballer Toni Kroos He said this Tuesday on his ‘Simply Mal Luppen’ podcast that he “definitely” will not watch the Euro Cup semifinals, given that he does not believe that “there are higher quality matches” than the duel that pitted his team against Spain in the quarterfinals. of final.
The German midfielder acknowledged that after the German elimination against Spain he felt “a very big void”, something he had not experienced since 2012, when he lost to Bayern Munich in the Champions League final.
“As in the case of Bayern Munich, the dream of a title at home was shattered with the defeat. The bus journey from the Stuttgart headquarters to the training camp in Herzogenaurach seemed very long. The disappointment was incredible, But you don’t just sit there for three hours in silence, you also have nice conversations,” Kroos said.
The former Real Madrid player noted that when they returned to the national team headquarters they talked “in groups until six in the morning about what was next, what we could do better and how everyone felt,” and that it was “then” when, According to him, they “realized that they were a group of good guys and not just good players.
Of German coach Julian Nagelsmann, Kroos said that “he can also feel satisfied that he has formed the team correctly.”
“And I still felt bad for the next two days. It’s amazing how the head controls the body. If we had progressed, we would have played France in the semi-finals of the European Championship and I would have been in top shape. But I couldn’t take a step “The last two days, everything hurt from top to bottom. My head was so bad that nothing worked,” he revealed.
Toni Kroos stated in the podcast that in the first half of extra time he noticed “the beginning of a cramp in the thigh muscles”, “then another one came in the calf” and “another one in the adductors”.
The former German footballer concluded by wondering if, if Nagelsmann had considered replacing him due to the discomfort, “he doesn’t know if there would be accepted the change”.
“It has nothing to do with honor, it is the heart of the normal footballer. I was very angry with myself because my body had let me down a little,” he said.
