Toni Kroos Explained
Toni Kroos |
Full Name: | Toni Kroos[1] |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1990[2] |
Birth Place: | Greifswald, East Germany |
Height: | 1.83 m[3] |
Position: | Midfielder |
Youthyears1: | 1997–2002 |
Youthclubs1: | Greifswalder SC |
Youthyears2: | 2002–2006 |
Youthclubs2: | Hansa Rostock |
Youthyears3: | 2006–2007 |
Youthclubs3: | Bayern Munich |
Years1: | 2007–2008 |
Clubs1: | Bayern Munich II |
Caps1: | 13 |
Goals1: | 4 |
Years2: | 2007–2014 |
Clubs2: | Bayern Munich |
Caps2: | 130 |
Goals2: | 13 |
Years3: | 2009–2010 |
Clubs3: | → Bayer Leverkusen (loan) |
Caps3: | 43 |
Goals3: | 10 |
Years4: | 2014–2024 |
Clubs4: | Real Madrid |
Caps4: | 306 |
Goals4: | 22 |
Totalcaps: | 492 |
Totalgoals: | 49 |
Nationalyears1: | 2005–2007 |
Nationalteam1: | Germany U17 |
Nationalcaps1: | 34 |
Nationalgoals1: | 17 |
Nationalyears2: | 2009 |
Nationalteam2: | Germany U19 |
Nationalcaps2: | 5 |
Nationalgoals2: | 3 |
Nationalyears3: | 2008–2009 |
Nationalteam3: | Germany U21 |
Nationalcaps3: | 10 |
Nationalgoals3: | 2 |
Nationalyears4: | 2010–2024 |
Nationalteam4: | Germany |
Nationalcaps4: | 114 |
Nationalgoals4: | 17 |
Toni Kroos (born 4 January 1990) is a German former professional footballer. Regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, he was known for his vision, passing, crossing and set-piece ability. Kroos played mainly as a central midfielder, but was also deployed as a defensive and, on occasions, attacking midfielder throughout his career. With 34 trophies won throughout a career spanning 17 years, Kroos is the most decorated German football player.[4]
Kroos began his senior club career at Bayern Munich, where he debuted at age 17 in 2007. He was used sparingly and opted for an 18-month loan spell at fellow Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen, where he became a key contributor. He 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, two DFB-Pokal trophies, and was voted into the league team of the season three times. In 2014, he joined Real Madrid in a transfer worth €25 million.[5]
In Madrid, Kroos earned twenty-one trophies, including four La Liga titles and five UEFA Champions League trophies, three of which he won consecutively from 2016 to 2018, each time being selected in the competition's team of the season. He was selected in the FIFA FIFPRO World 11 and UEFA Team of the Year three times each, and the league's team of the season twice.[6] [7] He was voted the IFFHS World's Best Playmaker in 2014 and German Footballer of the Year in 2018 and 2024.
Kroos won Golden Player at the 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and Golden Ball at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He made his senior debut for Germany in 2010, at age 20, and appeared in seven major tournaments. With 114 international matches for the senior team, Kroos is one of the top ten most capped German players. 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. At UEFA Euro 2016, he was selected to the Team of the Tournament. In 2024, Kroos retired from professional football.[8]
Club career
Early career
Kroos first played for local club Greifswalder SC, later transferring to the youth team of Hansa Rostock. Kroos moved to Bayern Munich's youth setup in 2006. Kroos was missing up to 40 days during the school year due to training.[9]
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.[10] At the time of his debut, Kroos was the youngest player ever to represent Bayern in a professional match at old, a record since broken by David Alaba in 2010.[11] 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.[12] 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.
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.[13]
Loan at Bayer Leverkusen
On 31 January 2009, Bayern allowed Kroos to join Bayer Leverkusen on an 18-month loan to gain first team experience.[14] 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.[15] During the 2008–09 season, Kroos made 13 appearances for Leverkusen in all competitions, scoring once. 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.[16] He ended the season with nine goals and 12 assists from 33 matches.
Bayern Munich
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!"[17]
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. On 29 October 2010, he scored his first league goal for the club, in a 4–1 win for the Bavarians against SC Freiburg. During the 2010–11 season, Kroos was a regular starter for Bayern in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League. He ended the season with 37 appearances in all competitions.
During 2011–12, under Jupp Heynckes, his former coach at Leverkusen, Kroos established himself as a first choice player from Bayern, forming a strong midfield partnership with national team colleague Bastian Schweinsteiger. He played 51 matches in all competitions during the season, including the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, where Bayern were beaten on penalties by Chelsea at the Allianz Arena.
Kroos was an important member of Bayern's treble-winning team during the 2012–13 season. As the most advanced member of a midfield containing Schweinsteiger and Javi Martínez, Kroos scored three goals in the team's opening four Bundesliga matches. He also scored his first Champions League goal in Bayern's opening group match against Valencia. After sustaining an injury in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Juventus,[18] Kroos was unavailable for the remainder of the season, missing Bayern's successes in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final, the 2013 DFB-Pokal Final and the last seven matches of the Bundesliga season.
Kroos returned to fitness for the start of the 2013–14 season and, played in the German Super Cup[19] and the UEFA Super Cup.[20] On 4 October 2013, scored his first goal of the season in a 1–1 draw against former club Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. He started two matches for Bayern in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup,[21] the first against Guangzhou Evergrande in the 3–0 semi-final win on 17 December 2013,[22] and in the final as the team beat Raja Casablanca 2–0.[23] [24] On 19 February 2014, Kroos scored his second goal of the season in a 2–0 Champions League win against Arsenal.[25] On 25 March, he scored in a 3–1 win over Hertha BSC as Bayern were confirmed as Bundesliga champions.[26]
Real Madrid
2014–15: Debut season
Prior to joining Real Madrid, Kroos had a deal in place to join Manchester United after agreeing terms with David Moyes. However, after Moyes was sacked and Louis van Gaal replaced him, the Dutch manager decided against signing Kroos. Around the time of the 2014 World Cup he received a call from Carlo Ancelotti.[27]
On 17 July 2014, Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid announced that they had reached an agreement for the transfer of Kroos, signing a six-year deal for an undisclosed fee.[28] [29] [30] [31] The press reported that Kroos had cost between €24 and €30 million.[32] [33] [34] [35] Greifswalder SV 04, the successor to his first youth team, received €60,000 from the transfer.[36]
Kroos became the ninth German player, after Günter Netzer, Paul Breitner, Uli Stielike, Bernd Schuster, Bodo Illgner, Christoph Metzelder, Mesut Özil, and Sami Khedira, to join Real Madrid.[37] At his presentation in front of 8,000 supporters, he stated how Real Madrid is the "biggest club in the world" and is a "cut above Bayern".[38] [39] He played in his debut match against Sevilla in the 2014 UEFA Super Cup on 12 August 2014, winning his first trophy at Real Madrid.[40] [41]
He was part of a midfield trio with James Rodríguez and Luka Modrić that led Real Madrid to 22-game winning run late in the year. On 8 November, Kroos scored his first goal for Real Madrid in a 5–1 win over Rayo Vallecano, at home.[42] In December, he helped the team win the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup, leading the tournament in assists. He was named to the FIFA FIFPRO World 11 and the UEFA Team of the Year.[43]
2015–19: Sustained domestic success and European dominance
In 2015, Ancelotti was replaced by Rafa Benítez in Madrid's command. Benítez was replaced in the middle of the season by Zinedine Zidane, under whom Kroos continued to be a key midfield player. Zidane said "We signed Toni because we want him to mark an era" and called Kroos "perfect for Madrid".[44] He was a regular starter when the team won the 2015–16 Champions League, his second Champions League trophy.[45] Los Blancos triumph at San Siro meant that Kroos became the first-ever German to lift the Champions League trophy with two clubs.[46]
In 2016, Kroos became a part of a collaboration between the German Football Association and The LEGO Group, who in May released a Europe-exclusive collectible minifigure series, with Kroos featured as the tenth of sixteen minifigures in the collection.[47] On 12 October 2016, he signed a new contract until 2022, and by the end of the year he was once again nominated to the FIFA FIFPRO World 11 and the UEFA Team of the Year.[48] He scored the winning goal for Real Madrid in the 81st minute of the game against Celta Vigo as Real Madrid won their first home game of the La Liga season by 2–1.[49] He was a regular starter when Madrid won the 2016–17 La Liga and later defended their title in the 2016–17 Champions League. He became the first German player to win the trophy three times.[50] [51] [52] At the end of 2016–17, Kroos was the most used player under Zidane.[53] During the 2017–18 Champions League, he made twelve appearances, when Madrid won their third consecutive and 13th overall Champions League title.[54]
2019–2021: Fifth FIFA Club World Cup title
On 22 December 2018, Kroos won his record fifth FIFA Club World Cup after his team defeated Al Ain FC with a 4–1 margin in the final. On 20 May 2019, he extended his contract with the club until 2023.[55] [56]
On 17 August 2019, Kroos opened his goal account for the campaign in the La Liga season opener against Celta Vigo at Balaídos in a 3–1 win with a long range effort.[57] On 22 October 2019, he scored the winning goal in a 1–0 victory over Galatasaray in his 100th appearance in the Champions League.[58]
On 8 January 2020, Kroos scored his first Supercopa goal directly from a corner kick against Valencia in the 2019–20 Supercopa de España semi-final in Jeddah as Los Blancos won 3–1.[59] Three days later, Real Madrid won the Supercopa after beating the local rivals Atlético Madrid on penalties.[60] On 16 February, Kroos again scored against Celta Vigo, this time at the Bernabeu in a 2–2 league draw.[61] This was his sixth goal against the Galician club, meaning he had scored against them more than any other team in his career.
On 16 June, when La Liga restarted after a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kroos scored Real Madrid's first official goal at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium in just four minutes in an eventual 3–1 win over Eibar.[62] One month later, Real Madrid went on a ten-game winning run and won the 2019–20 La Liga title with Kroos featuring in all 11 matches post-lockdown.[63] On 8 August, Kroos' season came to an end as Manchester City eliminated Madrid in the Champions League Round of 16 (4–2 on aggregate).[64]
2021–2024: Further honours and retirement
On 10 April 2021, Kroos scored his first El Clásico goal against Barcelona which came from a free-kick in the 28th minute at the Di Stefano Stadium which proved to be the winner in a vital 2–1 league win to send Los Blancos to the top of the league. This was Kroos' first free kick goal for Real Madrid in just his sixth attempt.[65] In the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, Kroos won his fifth title in the competition, scoring two goals in twelve appearances.[66]
On 10 August 2022, Kroos started the 2022–23 season by winning his fourth UEFA Super Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt.[67] This match would prove to be significant because it was the last time the famous trio commonly known by fans as KCM (Kroos, Casemiro and Modrić) would start a match together. Casemiro would move on to Manchester United a week later.[68] On the first matchday of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League season, Kroos received the UEFA Man of the Match for his performance against Celtic at Celtic Park.[69] On 11 September 2022, Kroos captained Real Madrid for the first time in a 4–1 home win against Mallorca after club captain Karim Benzema had been injured and the reserve captains (Nacho and Modrić) started on the bench.[70] On 16 October, he played his 250th La Liga match in a 3–1 El Clásico win over Barcelona.[71] On 30 October, Kroos received the first red card of his professional career in a 1–1 home draw against Girona after he received a second yellow card for a foul on Aleix García.[72]
On 11 February 2023, Kroos broke his own record by gaining his sixth FIFA Club World Cup title, one with Bayern Munich and five with Real Madrid.[73] On 6 May, he played in the 2–1 win over Osasuna in the Copa del Rey final, to achieve his first ever trophy in that tournament.[74] On 21 June 2023, Kroos extended his contract with Real Madrid for one more year, keeping him until June 2024.[75] [76] On 3 October, Kroos got his 100th Champions League appearance for the club, starting in Madrid's 3–2 turnaround away win over Napoli.[77]
On 21 May 2024, Kroos announced that he would retire from club and international football after UEFA Euro 2024.[78] [79] In his last La Liga fixture at the Santiago Bernabéu on 25 May, he played in a goalless draw against Real Betis, where he received a guard of honour and a standing ovation from the entire stadium when he was substituted in the 86th minute.[80] [81] On 1 June, he played his last match for the club, where he provided an assist from a corner to Dani Carvajal's first goal in a 2–0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final, getting his 300th win for Real Madrid.[82] Moreover, this match saw Kroos equal Paco Gento's record of six European Cup titles alongside Dani Carvajal, Luka Modrić and Nacho.[83] In total he made 479 top-flight league matches for Bayern and Real.[84]
International career
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.[85] 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,[86] 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.[87]
2010 World Cup
In January 2010, Kroos was called up to the senior Germany team for the first time, for a training session in Sindelfingen[88] 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.[89]
Kroos was selected to Joachim Löw's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He made his FIFA 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 as a substitute in the quarter-finals against Argentina, in the semi-finals against Spain and in the third place play-off against Uruguay.
Euro 2012
Kroos established himself as a regular starter in Germany's qualification campaign for UEFA Euro 2012, playing in eight out of a possible ten games. Germany won all ten qualifying matches to top group A. After qualification was already ensured, Kroos scored his first two international goals, both with his strong right foot. Notably, both Kroos' goals were Germany's first after falling behind in the respective matches, both of which were drawn away friendlies, against the two Euro 2012 hosts – Poland and Ukraine. National coach Joachim Löw also praised him: "How Toni distributes the ball, how he receives it, is very good. He's technically excellent ... He has made progress in the last few matches, I'm extremely satisfied with the player."[90]
At the tournament finals, Kroos appeared as a substitute in all three of Germany's Group B matches. For the semi-final match against Italy, Löw selected the naturally attacking Kroos to man mark Italy's playmaker Andrea Pirlo. The decision was heavily criticised as Germany lost the match 2–1.[91] [92]
2014 World Cup
During Germany's 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, Kroos scored his first two competitive international goals in a 6–1 win over the Republic of Ireland in Dublin. On 6 September 2013, he scored the team's second goal in a 3–0 win over Austria.
Kroos was named in Germany's squad for the 2014 World Cup.[93] In the team's opening match, a 4–0 win over Portugal, Kroos started in midfield and assisted Mats Hummels for Germany's second goal.[94] Then in the quarter final the only goal scored by Mats Hummels against France came from his free kick.[95] In the semi-final against the host nation Brazil, Kroos scored two goals two minutes apart (24' and 26') in Germany's 7–1 win.[96] He also recorded his fourth assist of the tournament, crossing for Thomas Müller's opening goal, and was named man of the match by FIFA.[97] Kroos has been nicknamed Garçom ("waiter" in Portuguese) by the Brazilians for precisely delivering most passes to the strikers.[98]
On 11 July, Kroos was named on the ten-man shortlist for FIFA's Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.[99]
The Castrol Performance Index, the official statistical analyser of the World Cup, rated Kroos as the best player at the 2014 World Cup, with a rating of 9.79 out of 10.[100]
Kroos is considered the only player from the former East Germany to ever win the World Cup.[101]
2018 World Cup
On 4 June 2018, Kroos was included in Germany's final 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[102] On 23 June, Kroos scored from a free-kick in stoppage time against Sweden to resurrect Germany's World Cup hopes with a 2–1 victory.[103] But in their next and last group stage match, his side were knocked out by South Korea after losing 2–0 four days later.[104]
2020–21 UEFA Nations League
On 13 October 2020, Kroos played his 100th match for Germany in a 3–3 draw against Switzerland in the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League A.[105]
Euro 2020 and retirement from international play
On 19 May 2021, he was selected to the squad for the UEFA Euro 2020.[106]
Three days after the team lost 2–0 against England in the Round of 16 on 29 June, Kroos announced his retirement from international football, after being heavily criticised for his poor performance.[107] [108] [109] Honorary Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß stated that Kroos' style of play which emphasizes horizontal passing doesn't fit the modern game. Former German international and Ballon d'Or winner Lothar Matthäus expressed similar sentiments, stating that he does not agree with Kroos style of play and that "Kroos is no longer international class". However, per Kroos own statement he said the reasons for his retirement were to focus on his club career and family.[110] [111]
Return to the national team, UEFA Euro 2024, and retirement
On 22 February 2024, Kroos announced that he would return to the German national team for the tournament on home soil, having been approached to do so by new manager Julian Nagelsmann.[112] [113] In March 2024, he was called up for the next window.[114] Kroos assisted a goal seven seconds into his international return against France on 23 March 2024.[115]
Kroos was included in the final Germany squad for the UEFA Euro 2024, which he announced in May that would be his final tournament as a professional footballer in front of home crowd.[116] [117] He went on to help the team reach the quarterfinals, where they lost against Spain by 2–1 after extra time; this would be his last career match.[118] [119]
Style of play
A tall and athletic right-footed midfielder, Kroos is considered to be one of the greatest midfielders of all time, known for the range and accuracy of his distribution and his dictate play in midfield or set up goals with his passing, crossing, and ball delivery from set-pieces. He is often considered one of the best and most accurate passers of all time as well.[120] [121] [122] [123] He has been described by Jonathan Wilson as "perhaps the archetype of the modern attacking midfielder". Wilson has also described Kroos as "dynamic and hardworking", and praised him for his versatility, physical strength and ability to play in several midfield positions: in addition to his usual role, he was also used in the centre as a deep-lying playmaker, on the flank, in a box-to-box role, or even as a defensive midfielder, due to his ability to both break up play, retain possession, and create chances for teammates. He started out playing in more advanced midfield roles, before being shifted to a deeper role as his career progressed.[124] [125] [126] [127] One of his signature moves on the ball involved him taking a run-on first touch past an opponent when receiving a pass under pressure, which allowed him to beat opponents and create space for himself,[127] despite his lack of pace;[128] [129] this move was dubbed the "Kroos shuffle" in the media.[130] Due to his wide range of passing, Kroos also excelled at dictating the tempo of his teams play in midfield with accurate short passes, or at starting attacks with longer passes.[131] [132] [133] Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes said in 2014 that Kroos, "a top-class central midfielder", was the player that United most needed to sign.[134]
Former Netherlands captain Johan Cruyff said of Kroos' performances at the 2014 World Cup, "He's doing everything right: the pace in his passes is great and he sees everything. It's nearly perfect."[135]
Personal life
Kroos was born in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, on 4 January 1990. He was born in the last year of East Germany, several weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall and nine months before German reunification.[136] His mother Britta was an East German national badminton champion,[136] and his father Roland was also a footballer and worked as a youth coach for Hansa Rostock.[9] He has a younger brother, Felix Kroos, who was also a professional footballer.[9] During his youth, he was a mediocre student and spent a lot of time practicing football,[9] however, he was well-behaved in class and well liked among his peers at school.[9]
Kroos married his long-term girlfriend Jessica Farber on 13 June 2015. They have two sons and a daughter.[137] He owns a house on the island of Mallorca.
In March 2021, Kroos said it was "wrong" for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar, pointing out the Gulf state's poor treatment of migrant workers and its criminalisation of homosexuality. He said that footballers should draw attention to those issues instead of boycotting the tournament.[138] In 2023, he criticised leading footballers for moving to the Saudi Pro League, believing that it was driven only by money.[139] He said that he would never move to the country due to its human rights record, prompting him to be booed while playing in the 2024 Supercopa de España in the kingdom.[140]
Kroos called on Germans to vote in the 2021 German federal election, unless they were voting for the Alternative for Germany, adding "nobody needs them".[141] In July 2024, Kroos said on the ZDF Lanz & Precht podcast that Germany was not the same country that he had left ten years earlier, and said that his daughter would be safer in Spain. Later in the discussion, he said that he supported immigration to Germany "1,000%" but felt that it had been "uncontrolled" and had allowed a minority of "not good" people to enter. Kroos's interview was mistranslated internationally, incorrectly indicating that he had suggested a link between immigration and crime in Germany.[142]
Career statistics
Club
International
Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Germany |
2010 | 13 | 0 |
2011 | 11 | 2 |
2012 | 10 | 2 |
2013 | 7 | 1 |
2014 | 16 | 4 |
2015 | 5 | 0 |
2016 | 12 | 3 |
2017 | 6 | 0 |
2018 | 11 | 2 |
2019 | 5 | 3 |
2020 | 5 | 0 |
2021 | 5 | 0 |
2022 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 8 | 0 |
Total | 114 | 17 | |
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Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first
List of international goals scored by Toni KroosNo. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 6 September 2011 | Stadion Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland | | 1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
2 | 11 November 2011 | Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine | | 1–2 | 3–3 | Friendly |
3 | 12 October 2012 | Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland | | 5–0 | 6–1 | 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification |
4 | 6–0 |
5 | 6 September 2013 | Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany | | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification |
6 | | Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | | 3–0 | | 2014 FIFA World Cup |
7 | 4–0 |
8 | 14 October 2014 | Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany | | 1–0 | 1–1 | UEFA Euro 2016 qualification |
9 | 18 November 2014 | Balaídos, Vigo, Spain | | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
10 | 26 March 2016 | Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany | | 1–0 | 2–3 | Friendly |
11 | 29 March 2016 | Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany | | 1–0 | 4–1 | Friendly |
12 | 8 October 2016 | Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany | | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
13 | 23 June 2018 | Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi, Russia | | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2018 FIFA World Cup |
14 | 16 October 2018 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France | | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2018–19 UEFA Nations League A |
15 | 6 September 2019 | Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany | | 2–2 | 2–4 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualification |
16 | 16 November 2019 | Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, Germany | | 3–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualification |
17 | 4–0 | |
Honours
Bayern Munich[151]
Real Madrid[152]
- La Liga: 2016–17, 2019–20, 2021–22,[153] 2023–24[154]
- Copa del Rey: 2022–23[155]
- Supercopa de España: 2017, 2020,[156] 2022,[157] 2024[158]
- UEFA Champions League: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2021–22,[159] 2023–24[160]
- UEFA Super Cup: 2014, 2017, 2022[161]
- FIFA Club World Cup: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022[162]
Germany
Individual
- UEFA European Under-17 Championship Golden Player: 2006[164]
- UEFA European Under-17 Championship Top Scorer: 2007[165]
- FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Ball: 2007[166]
- FIFA U-17 World Cup Bronze Shoe: 2007
- Fritz-Walter-Medal U18 Gold Medal: 2008[167]
- kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2009–10, 2011–12
- UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18[168] [169] [170] [171]
- FIFA FIFPRO World 11: 2014, 2016, 2017[172] [173] [174]
- UEFA Team of the Year: 2014, 2016,[175] 2017[176]
- IFFHS World's Best Playmaker: 2014[177]
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 2014[178]
- FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2014[179]
- Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2014[180]
- German Player of the Year: 2014[181]
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 2016[182]
- La Liga Top assist provider: 2016–17[183]
- UEFA La Liga Team of the Season: 2016–17,[184] 2019–20[185]
- IFFHS World Team of the Decade 2011–2020[186]
- IFFHS UEFA Team of the Decade 2011–2020[187]
- German Footballer of the Year: 2018,[188] 2024[189]
- GQ German Athlete of the Year: 2019[190]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Acta del Partido celebrado el 21 de septiembre de 2016, en Madrid . Minutes of the Match held on 21 September 2016, in Madrid . https://archive.today/20190615173623/http://actas.rfef.es/actas/RFEF_CmpActa1?cod_primaria=1000144&CodActa=36373 . dead . 15 June 2019 . 15 June 2019 . Royal Spanish Football Federation . es .
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