Toni Kroos, "the engine" of Madrid and Germany 

With a mother, Birgit, a badminton champion in the Federal Republic of Germany, and a father, Roland, a football coach, the fate of Toni Kroos seemed 'doomed' to the sport. Although yes, "he was lazy, especially to do his homework, " revealed his mother precisely many years later. Although of course, when it came to soccer things changed and there was no one to stop it. In fact, to date there is still no one to stop the 'engine' of the German National Team and Real Madrid , a quintessential 'timekeeper' who knew how to combine innate talent with rigid discipline.  

As a child he was so superior that he played barefoot

The story of Toni Kroos was born in Greifswald , a city of 55,000 inhabitants near the Baltic Sea, on January 4, 1990 and it was there that his romance with the ball began.
He studied at the Baltic school in Rostock, the city where his father worked as a coach of the lower categories of Hansa , a team in which both Toni and his brother Félix began to train as players.
Daniel Pabel, Toni's classmate, once said that the Real Madrid midfielder today " almost never did his homework, he was a rather lazy student. He never considered it important to pass with outstandingOf course, Professor Heimann knew that his most important virtue, which in the end also led him to excel in soccer, was another: "He was always a humble boy, who kept his feet on the ground. He never bragged about football, he was nice and friendly. "
Although the most incredible thing in the Kroos school stage is that his own classmates forced him to play barefoot because little Toni was too good .
Of course, many times he could not participate in the matches with his other classmates because he was either in a tournament with Hansa, or training with his father in the Sports City, but the only time the whole school did not think about it and released Toni immediately was the day that, being youth, he traveled to Munich to undergo a medical examination. "The poor man was very tired when he called me. I told him there was no problem, that he was excused, "his teacher recalled.
A few days later, Kroos's parents signed his first professional contract with Bayern. Although Toni Kroos could not sign it because he was not of legal age ... 

Recommended by Franz Beckenbauer himself

Toni Kroos started the year 2007 playing in the lower categories of Bayern Munich and after the U-17 World Cup, he promoted to the first team, although at that event he was seen by the 'Kaiser' himself, who since he saw him knew that the midfielder would be a crack.
" You have to keep an eye on number ten. It will be a big one, you'll see, " Beckenbauer told Gerd Müller .

In 2010, Kroos started playing on loan, at Bayer Leverkusen , which he had left a year earlier, in January 2009. Although in that same year 2010, in the European summer, he was informed by Munich that he was the time to return to the club. And for 2011 Toni Kroos was already starting to be the undisputed starter in the German team.

To Madrid as world champion

In 2014, and after being a key player in his team that rose as the best in the World Cup that year in Brazil, the then Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti proposed in one of the talks with Florentino Pérez and José Ángel Sánchez, club general manager, named after Toni Kroos , who was immediately signed for just € 25 million. A round business for a tremendous player and what he became. 

The motor of the Germany that danced to Brazil

Toni Kroos debuted with the German national team on March 3, 2010 in a friendly against Argentina in which they lost 0-1 and in which he played 23 minutes while his first official match was on June 23 of that same year in the World Cup in South Africa against Ghana, which they won 0-1.
But the most remembered match of Kroos, his and his entire generation, was that one made by 7-1 over Brazil in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup. The Teutonic team put a tremendous dance in the same Mineirao, where Toni was He made a present with a double, and a brutal exhibition.

The record of Toni Kroos

National championships:

Bundesliga: 3
German Cup: 3
German Super Cup: 3
League Cup: 2
LaLiga: 1
Copa del Rey: 1

International Championships:

Champions League: 4
European Super Cup: 4
Club World Cup: 5

While on an individual level, Kroos has won the 2014 World's Best Game Builder award according to the IFFHS, the Ballon d'Or of the U-17 World Cup of which was the Bronze Boot and the Golden Boot of the U-17 European.
He has also been included in the 2014 World Cup All-Star Team and in the FIFA / FIFPro XI World Cup in 2014 and 2016 and in the Ideal Team of the Champions League in 2016 and 2017.