There must be a million atrocities protected or condoned under the typical theorem that he or she knows what they are doing. And it happens that, normally, they don’t know it. There we have Napoleon, for example, when he launched himself into Russia as if he did not know winter and, even less, the Russians. Or Amaya Valdemoro, who hung up her shoes to try her luck as a commentator and after being one of the best players in the world, has to endure, in each broadcast, how two friends from Burgos who do not reach the hoop from the free throw line try to make amends. the flat for your comments: I know this because I am one of those two friends from Burgos, although I was born in Pontevedra. With Toni Kroos and the decision to leave football (and Madrid, which is football within football) the same question arises: Does he really know what he does? Could he be making a mistake?
I will answer the second question first: Hopefully. Not doing so would mean continuing to play football for another year, at least, and defending a shirt that will never be mine unless I acquired German nationality by I don’t know exactly what means and with what intentions. He could have defended her after leaving Bayern Munich due to irreconcilable disagreements with the management team (the dinodome), but someone then decided that Iván Rakitic suited more and better to the needs of a team, Barça, that was trying to evolve its model of success towards a more modern, more industrial football, a football where the presence of so many good footballers in the center of the field had to be balanced with something more mediocre.
Watching Kroos play with the shirt of the eternal rival, or with that of Germany, was a strange pleasure, as sweet as it was salty, annoying and at the same time necessary, similar to the sensation of watching through a screen how a cardiology team performs a catheterization. If for years in Barcelona we boasted of closing our eyes to unravel the match through the sound caused by the circulation of the ball, listening to Kroos’s strike in the dark must be like seeing The Empire Strikes Back for the first time in the cinema, but without knowing that neither the German nor Darth Vader are as bad as we thought.
And beyond the field, all of us who think that football should not be used as a whitewashing agent for satraps and regimes where women lack fundamental rights and LGTBI people do not even have to exist are proud of Toni Kroos. That the Saudi Arabian public whistled for Kroos’s every intervention during the Super Cup made us empathize like never before with a footballer who already offered little cause for disagreement: excellent player, great competitor, good teammate.
About Messi, after the Argentine won his desired World Cup, Toni Kroos said “he deserves it.” I’ve never seen anyone play so well with such consistency. And it must be taken into account that he has never played for a team that I like, which explains that I am being totally serious.” And me too, Toni Kroos. I hope that what a large part of Real Madrid fans maintain at this time is true, convinced at all points that the German does not know what he is doing, like Napoleon. It will save me another year of watching Madrid games through my fingers, like when you cover your eyes because you’re scared of the monster in the movie, but what the hell, you paid to see it.
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