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Josh O'Brien

Toni Kroos named one of World Cup’s worst players - despite retiring 18 months before

Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has remarkably been named as one of the worst players of the Qatar World Cup - despite the fact he retired from an international football over a year ago.

The bizarre claim came from Cristina Cubero while appearing on Spanish television, after she clearly had forgotten the former Bayern Munich man actually called time on his career with the German national team in June of 2021. Kroos international retirement came just one day after his nation were dumped out of the Euros by England at Wembley.

Kroos has since responded to the clip himself, quoting it on Twitter with a tweet that read: "I knew someone was going to blame" followed by a laughing emoji, which suggests the 32-year-old isn't taking the accusation he was to blame for Germany's poor showing too hard.

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