Toni Kroos

Toni Kroos

Personal information
Full name	Toni Kroos
Date of birth	4 January 1990 (1990-01-04)
Place of birth	Greifswald, East Germany
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder / Winger
Club information
Current club	Bayern Munich
Number	39
Youth career
1997–2002	Greifswalder SV
2002–2006	Hansa Rostock
2006–2007	Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2007–2008	Bayern Munich II	13	(4)
2007–	Bayern Munich	64	(2)
2009–2010	→ Bayer Leverkusen (loan)	43	(10)
National team‡
2005–2007	Germany U17	34	(17)
2009	Germany U19	5	(4)
2008–	Germany U21	9	(2)
2010–	Germany	24	(2)
Honours Bayern Munich Winner DFB Liga-Pokal 2007 Winner Bundesliga 2008 Winner DFB-Pokal 2008 Winner DFL-Supercup 2010 Bayer Leverkusen Runner-up DFB-Pokal 2009 Germany Third FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007 Third FIFA World Cup 2010
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:36, 28 January 2012 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:42, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Toni Kroos (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːni ˈkʁoːs]) (born 4 January 1990) is a German international footballer who plays for Bayern Munich as an attacking midfielder. He is the older brother of Werder Bremen forward Felix Kroos.

Club career

Early career

Kroos was born in Greifswald and first played for local club Greifswalder SC, later transferring to the youth team of Hansa Rostock. Kroos – who plays as a midfielder – changed to Bayern Munich's youth setup in 2006. For the 2007–08 season and on, Kroos was named to the senior team, at the young age of 17. Bayern's manager Uli Hoeneß has stated that in the future Toni will play with the number 10 shirt in the Bayern Munich first team when he has more experience.

Kroos has made an astounding start to his Bayern career, making his Bayern Munich debut on 26 September 2007 in the 5–0 mauling of Energie Cottbus and instantly providing two assists for the two goals scored by Miroslav Klose within 18 minutes of his appearance. Kroos also earned Bayern an extremely valuable victory on his UEFA Cup debut away to Red Star Belgrade, coming on as a substitute in the 81st minute and providing an assist for Miroslav Klose and then scoring the winning goal with practically the last shot of the game.

Loan at Bayer Leverkusen

He was loaned out to Bayer Leverkusen in January 2009. On 18 April 2009 he scored his first goal in the Bundesliga against VfL Wolfsburg which Bayer Leverkusen lost 2–1. At the annual meeting of FC Bayern on 27 November 2009 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge announced that at the end of the season Kroos will return to Bayern. On 19 December 2009, he scored a double against Borussia Mönchengladbach which Leverkusen won 3–2 which meant Bayer became the half-season champions of the 2009–10 season.

In December 2009 Kroos was voted player of the month by the readers of the kicker sports magazine. Although Bayer expressed their desire to keep him, Bayern restated their intent on keeping the youngster having tied him with a contract until 2012.

Bayern Munich

After the 2010 World Cup Kroos returned to Bayern from a one and a half year long loan spell where he scored 10 league goals in 43 appearances.

2010–11

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. During the season, Kroos made further appearances in Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and also in the Champions League. He scored his first league goal on 29 October 2010, on matchday 10 against SC Freiburg, a 25-yard one, which made the score 4–1 for the Bavarians.

National team

Youth Teams

In the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Toni Kroos was awarded the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player and also won the Bronze Shoe after scoring five goals. Kroos' debut for the national U-21 team came on 5 September 2008 in a 2009 Euro U-21 Championship Qualifier against Northern Ireland and scored the opening goal in the 11th minute, his second goal for the U-21 side was goal in Germany's 1–0 win over Italy, a precise long-range shot in the angle. It came as a surprise that coach Horst Hrubesch left him out of Germany's U-21 squad for Euro 2009, and Germany went on to win the tournament without him.

World Cup 2010

In January 2010, Kroos was called up to the senior Germany team for the first time, for a training session in Sindelfingen and was named in the squad for the following match, a friendly against Argentina on 3 March 2010, in which he subsequently made his debut for the national side. Kroos was selected to Joachim Löw's 23-man squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He made his World Cup debut in Germany's final group-stage match versus Ghana, coming on in the 80th minute for Bastian Schweinsteiger, with Germany leading 1–0. He made further appearances in the quarter-finals against Argentina, in the semi-finals against Spain and in the third-place match against Uruguay.

Euro 2012

Kroos established himself as a regular starter in Germanys qualification campaign for Euro 2012, playing eight out of a possible ten games and helped Germany winning all competitive matches in 2011 to top group A. After qualification was ensured Kroos scored his first two goals: both with his strong right foot, both Germanys first goal of the match after falling behind, both in away friendlies resulting in a draw and both against upcoming Euro 2012 hosts – Poland and Ukraine.

International goals

Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first:

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	6 September 2011	PGE Arena Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland	Poland	1–1	2–2	Friendly
2.	11 November 2011	Olimpiysky National Sports Complex, Kiev, Ukraine	Ukraine	2–1	3–3	Friendly

Honours

Club

Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga: 2007–08
• DFB-Pokal: 2007–08
• DFB-Ligapokal: 2007
• DFB-Supercup: 2010

National team

Germany

• FIFA World Cup 2010: Third place – Bronze medal
• FIFA U-17 World Championship: 2007: Third place – Bronze medal
• UEFA U-17 Championship : 2007: Fourth Place

Individual

• UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship Golden Player: 2006
• UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship Top Scorer: 2007
• FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007 Golden Ball
• FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007 Bronze Shoe
• Fritz-Walter-Medal 2008 in Gold (Category U18)

Career statistics

As of 28 January 2012 (2012 -01-28)

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Club	League	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		DFL-Ligapokal		Europe		Total
Bayern Munich II	Regionalliga Süd	2007–08	12	3	—		—		—		12	3
Bayern Munich	Bundesliga	2007–08	12	0	2	0	0	0	6	1	20	1
Bayern Munich II	3rd Liga	2008–09	1	1	—		—		—		1	1
Bayern Munich	Bundesliga	2008–09	7	0	1	1			0	0	8	1
Bayer Leverkusen			10	1	3	0			—		13	1
		2009–10	33	9	2	0			—		35	9
Bayern Munich		2010–11	27	1	3	1			7	0	37	2
		2011–12	18	1	3	1			7	2	28	4
Career statistics			120	16	14	3	0	0	20	3	154	22

Personal life

He is the older brother of Felix Kroos who is a striker for Werder Bremen. His father Roland works as A-Youth (U-19) coach for FC Hansa Rostock.

External links

• Toni Kroos at kicker.de (German)
• Toni Kroos at fussballdaten.de (German)
• Toni Kroos at transfermarkt.de (German)
• Profile and Videos (German)