Kroos: “I don’t like being the center of attention”

Toni Kroos, who has just launched a commercial campaign with a well-known clothing brand, has given an interview to the sports newspaper Marca to promote this new alliance and, in addition, has spoken about his first months as a former footballer: «My life is different , but I think I work more than before. It is a different job, more about thinking, starting projects and taking care of them. I want things to go well and for that you have to work. At football school, For example, I have many children who I want to improve and for that I have to make a training plan for the kids, another for the teams. That’s how my life has changed. Before I went to train, play and that’s it. Now I have to think. And there is the Foundation, which is now ten years old and in which we try to help children who are sick. The whole family turns to it, because there are many people who are having a bad time. I am lucky, because my children are healthy, they are healthy… My life is not real many times, that is the truth, and that is why I try to help in every way possible.

The German confesses in the interview that Florentine He tried to stop him from retiring, and Ancelotti asked him to do the same, but his decision had already been made. This is how he details what the process was like: «The truth is that it wasn’t difficult for my wife, because it was a joint decision. At home it wasn’t a surprise, because we spent months talking about this. My wife was happy to have me at home more. It was more difficult to tell my eldest son, because I knew how much he enjoyed watching me on TV and in the stadium. He has experienced many things, he has been in four Champions League finals and as a child he will not forget it! It has been difficult for my son, yes… And it has been difficult for me to tell Carlo, because he expected me to continue and because we had and have a very good relationship. “He was my first coach here and it wasn’t easy to tell him, but everything in life has an end.”

Kroos has also given an interview to the German digital newspaper Ran.de and there he made it clear that he does not want any tribute match: “I had my farewell match here in Madrid, It was still a League game, so it wasn’t an organized game for me, but in some ways it felt like one, at least because of what the fans made of it. Organize another farewell game for me now… I’m not the kind of person who wants everyone to come just for me or for me to be the center of attention again.