Toni Kroos has been playing for Real Madrid since 2014Image: Imago Images / Beautiful Sports
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“I’m actually not someone who likes to deal with referees during the game.” Toni Kroos’ statement is just a week old. Afterwards he opened up about the big but in the podcast “Einfach mal Luppen”, which he publishes weekly with his brother.
Back in the game against Sevilla (1-0), many actions that can normally be decided 50:50 were counted against the Real Madrid team and therefore also against Kroos. Finally, Kroos said at the time: “God sees everything and then probably stabbed his colleague in the calf. There were 80,000 snipers, they were all ready.” The referee had to stop in the 60th minute because of a calf problem and the fourth official took over.
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But the last sentence in particular was ultimately chosen by the Kroos brothers as the title of the episode: “80,000 snipers for one pipe”. A headline that is now causing a stir. In the current episode, Toni Kroos reads a fan review. The listener criticizes the two brothers for their choice of words. Specifically, he writes to them: “Some crazy people can interpret this as a murder order or something else. You are putting the referee in too negative a light because of a poor performance. Language like that should have no place in football.”
After Toni reads out the fan’s objection, he answers seriously: “Of course we take your opinion seriously, especially when you formulate it so sensibly.” He also sees the fundamental problem that “these days, people are pilloried far too often and far too insensitively.”
Toni Kroos and brother Felix react to fan criticism
But he also says that he doesn’t think he did that. Rather he says: “It was more of an evaluation of a referee’s performance, just as we have to and are allowed to be evaluated every weekend and have little influence on it.” He sarcastically adds to the episode title that his brother, Felix, has to pay for it. He had the initial idea for it.
“That’s ok. I’m putting myself in the wind. We’re also open about it. If someone finds that to be too harsh criticism, then we accept that too,” Felix admits.
Shortly afterwards, the two change the topic of conversation and talk about three future changes to coaching positions at Europe’s top teams. Jürgen Klopp’s time in Liverpool ends in the summer, Thomas Tuchel has to leave at FC Bayern and Xavi has announced his departure from FC Barcelona in the summer.
Felix then begins to speculate. In Liverpool it was clear to him that Roberto De Zerbi was the favorite to succeed Klopp. The Italian has been showing his skills at Brighton since September 2022, letting the Premier League team play attractive football and even receiving praise from coaching legend Pep Guardiola.
In Munich he sees Xabi Alonso as the most likely solution. With the championship, Alonso’s mission in Leverkusen is over, especially if winning the DFB Cup or the Europa League is added to that. “The next step for him is Bayern Munich. He stays in the league and knows the club because he played there. That would be the next step for him,” explains Felix, with the idea that FC Bayern would be a good interim step for Alonso to become a coach at Real Madrid at some point. “His personal goal will be to coach Real Madrid and the path There will be the first thing to do is to train Bayern Munich.”
For FC Barcelona, he sees the former Bayern and national coach as the next candidate for the sidelines, “because he should already learn Spanish.” Actually, according to these three predictions, there would have been time and space for Real star Toni Kroos to take part in the speculation. But he didn’t.
Toni Kroos with a nebulous hint about the search for coaches by top clubs
That’s why Felix asked his brother directly: “You’re well connected in international football. Do you have a tendency that you could reveal at one of the three clubs?” Toni’s short answer: “Yes.” “Now tell me,” was Felix’s answer. Laughing, Toni replied: “Absolutely not.” However, he then added: “I at least have an idea about one thing. But at all three weddings you danced at, nothing is certain yet.”
Even afterwards, Felix tries to get his brother to know which club he heard about the search for a coach. He was under contract in Munich for five years and he knows Flick from the national team. And Klopp? At least he knows it from recurring duels in the Champions League. However, Toni remains firm and doesn’t give any clues until the end of the episode.
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2024-03-06 07:24:04
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