Toni Kroos honoured by Adidas after emotional Euro 2024 farewell with Germany

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Toni Kroos' glittering career came to an end when Germany were knocked out of Euro 2024 on Friday

The retiring Toni Kroos following Germany's defeat to Spain at Euro 2024
The retiring Toni Kroos following Germany's defeat to Spain at Euro 2024 (Image credit: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

Toni Kroos bowed out on Friday as his glittering career on came to an end with Germany's extra-time defeat to Spain in the quarer-finals of Euro 2024.

Kroos announced in May that he would be hanging up his boots, come what may, at the end of the season and after signing off in perfect fashion on the club stage courtesy of a La Liga and Champions League double with Real Madrid, and he had hoped his last act on a football pitch would be to help Germany win the European Championship on home soil.

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That means time has been called on a career that saw the midfielder win seven league titles and six Champions Leagues during his time at Bayern Munich and then Real Madrid, plus a World Cup with Germany in 2014.

Kroos will go down as one of the most influential midfielders of his generation and German sportswear manufacturers Adidas have moved to honour the player in their own special way.

They have announced that their 11pro football boots, worn by Kroos for the past decade, will now be renamed the TKpro boot in his honour.

Adidas Rename 11pro Football Boots to adidas TKpro in honor of Toni Kroos

(Image credit: Adidas)

“It was love at first sight for Toni Kroos and the adidas 11pro football boots,” the firm said in a statement confirming the news.

“For the last ten years, Toni has famously won all there is to win in football in his favourite pair of boots, making them the ‘most successful pair of football boots ever’.

“As Toni and the 11pro have been sole mates for a decade, one can’t retire without the other, and loyalty in the beautiful game deserves to be inscribed in the history of the player and the brand, permanently.”

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Joe Mewis
Joe Mewis

For more than a decade, Joe Mewis has worked in football journalism as a reporter and editor. Mewis has had stints at Mirror Football and LeedsLive among others and worked at FourFourTwo throughout Euro 2024, reporting on the tournament. In addition to his journalist work, Mewis is also the author of four football history books that include times on Leeds United and the England national team. Now working as a digital marketing coordinator at Harrogate Town, too, Mewis counts some of his best career moments as being in the iconic Spygate press conference under Marcelo Bielsa and seeing his beloved Leeds lift the Championship trophy during lockdown.