{"id":27140,"date":"2024-02-22T20:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/27140\/toni-kroos-announces-shock-germany\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:02:59","slug":"toni-kroos-announces-shock-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=27140","title":{"rendered":"Toni Kroos announces shock Germany return ahead of Euro 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Kroos announces shock Germany return ahead of Euro 2024\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<p>Alex Kirkland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rodrigo Faez<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"timestamp \">February 22, 2024, 2:14 p.m.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Toni Kroos will return to the German national team ahead of this summer&#39;s European Championship, the Real Madrid midfielder confirmed on social media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kroos, 34 &#8211; who retired from international <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> in 2021 &#8211; revealed earlier this month that he was considering making the decision before Euro 2024, which will be hosted by Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuys, short and painless: I will play for Germany again from March,\u201d Kroos posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why? Because the national coach asked me, I&#39;m up for it and I&#39;m sure it&#39;s possible to do a lot more with the team at the European Championships than most people think! &#8220;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Toni Kroos last played for Germany in 2021. <cite>Photo by Lars Baron\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kroos made 106 appearances for Germany between 2010 and 2021, scoring 17 goals, and was a key member of the team that won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>He retired after being criticized for his performances at Euro 2020, when Germany were knocked out by England in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder has been a career-best for Real Madrid this season, helping them top the La Liga table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Kroos announces shock Germany return ahead of Euro 2024\u060c Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez February 22, 2024, 2:14 p.m. Toni Kroos will return to the German national team ahead of this summer&#39;s European Championship, the Real Madrid midfielder confirmed on social media on Thursday. Kroos, 34 &#8211; who retired from international football in 2021 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[740,1296,1225,1404,3988,625,5329,11066],"class_list":["post-27140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-ahead","tag-announces","tag-euro","tag-germany","tag-kroos","tag-return","tag-shock","tag-toni"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27142,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140\/revisions\/27142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}