Toni Kroos

On 25 October, Kroos earned Bayern a valuable victory away to Red Star Belgrade on his UEFA Cup debut, coming on as a substitute in the 81st minute and providing an assist for Miroslav Klose and then scoring the winning goal, his first for the club, in stoppage time.

He made his first start for the club in a 3–1 defeat away at VfB Stuttgart.

Kroos ended his first season with 20 appearances for Bayern, including six starts.

He also scored three goals in 12 appearances for Bayern Munich II in the Regionalliga Süd.

Toni Kroos (born 4 January 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Germany national team.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, he is known for his vision, passing, creativity, crossing and set-piece ability.

Kroos plays mainly as a central midfielder, but has also been deployed as a deep-lying playmaker in his career.

Kroos won Golden Player at the 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, where he also finished as top goalscorer, and won the Golden Ball at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Kroos moved to Bayern Munich's youth setup in 2006.

Kroos was missing up to 40 days during the school year due to training.

Kroos began his senior club career playing for Bayern Munich, where he made his debut at age 17 in 2007.

For the 2007–08 season, at the age of 17, Kroos was promoted to Bayern's senior team.

He made an astounding start to his Bundesliga career, making his debut for Bayern on 26 September 2007 in a 5–0 defeat of Energie Cottbus and twice assisting Miroslav Klose goals within 18 minutes of his appearance as a substitute.

Despite being selected to start in Bayern's opening 2008–09 Bundesliga match against Hamburger SV, Kroos appeared less frequently for die Roten during the first half of the 2008–09 season.

On 5 November 2008, however, he made his UEFA Champions League debut as a 79th-minute substitute against Fiorentina in matchday four of the group stage.

During the 2008–09 season, Kroos made 13 appearances for Leverkusen in all competitions, scoring once.

On 31 January 2009, Bayern allowed Kroos to join Bayer Leverkusen on an 18-month loan to gain first team experience.

He made his debut on 28 February as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat against Hannover 96.

On 12 April, he made his first Bundesliga start for Leverkusen, assisting the team's goal in a 1–1 draw with Werder Bremen.

On 18 April 2009, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2–1 loss to VfL Wolfsburg.

On 30 May, Kroos appeared as a late substitute in the 2009 DFB-Pokal Final against Werder Bremen, where Leverkusen were beaten 1–0 by a Mesut Özil goal.

Kroos established himself as a regular in the Leverkusen team in 2009–10, appearing all but one of Bayer's Bundesliga matches.

Between matchdays 16 and 20, Kroos registered five goals and four assists in five Bundesliga matches, earning him back-to-back "player of the month" awards from kicker for December 2009 and January 2010.

He ended the season with nine goals and 12 assists from 33 matches.

He was sparingly used, and opted for an 18-month loan spell at fellow Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen, where he became a key contributor, and returned to his parent club with an increased profile in 2010.

With Bayern, Kroos won two consecutive league titles (three titles in total), a UEFA Champions League title, two DFB-Pokal titles, and was voted into the league team of the season three times.

He made his senior debut for Germany in 2010, at age 20, and appeared in five major tournaments.

At the time of his debut, Kroos was the youngest player ever to represent Bayern in a professional match at 17 years, 269 days old, a record since broken by David Alaba in 2010.

In the summer of 2010, on the expiration of his loan at Bayer Leverkusen, Kroos returned to Bayern Munich.

When asked about his first team chances with Bayern, runner-up in the previous season's Champions League, Kroos stated, "I want to play as often as possible!"

On 16 August 2010, he started against Germania Windeck in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, scoring the third goal in a 4–0 victory.

In 2014, he joined Real Madrid in a transfer worth €25 million.

He was voted the IFFHS World's Best Playmaker in 2014 and German Footballer of the Year in 2018.

Kroos helped Germany win the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where he was top assist provider and voted to the All-Star Team, Dream Team, and German Player of the Year.

In Madrid, Kroos won twenty trophies, including three La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League titles, three of which he won consecutively from 2016 to 2018, each time being selected in the competition's team of the season.

He has been selected in the FIFPro World11 and UEFA Team of the Year three times, and the league's team of the season twice.

At UEFA Euro 2016, he was selected to the Team of the Tournament.

He announced his international retirement following Germany's elimination from UEFA Euro 2020 in 2021, after being heavily criticised for his poor performance.

Kroos announced his return to the national team in 2024.

Kroos first played for local club Greifswalder SC, later transferring to the youth team of Hansa Rostock.