Wednesday 17th November 2021
Toni announces Felix’s new club
Kroos moves to the district league after casting
Just a few months after retiring, Felix Kroos announced his return to football. Not for big money, but to draw attention to the importance of amateur clubs together with brother Toni Kroos. Because for such a player he will run in the Berlin district league in the future.
Felix Kroos actually ended his football career last summer. He had made his professional debut at Hansa Rostock, he even played in the Champions League once for Werder Bremen, he was promoted to the Bundesliga with 1. FC Union Berlin, his last station was Eintracht Braunschweig. “This is where real life begins for me,” the 30-year-old said in July. Now, in November, he says: “I am very happy to be back on the field soon.” However, no longer on the big stage, but in the Berlin district league.
For the FSV Fortuna Pankow Kroos wants to play for the first time in spring, who emerged as the winner of the “Felix Kroos Club Challenge”. The club from the north-east of the capital is in Season 3 of the district league with 27 points from eleven games in third place, just one point behind table leader DJK SW Neukölln. “In my career no club has tried to find me like this,” said Felix Kroos, explaining his decision for Pankow in the podcast “Einfach mal Luppen”, in which he talks to his brother Toni Kroos about everything that concerns them both.
It was there that the idea for the “Club Challenge” arose after Toni Kroos had held up against his younger brother without developing a “sofa figure” during regular training. 18 amateur clubs from Berlin and Brandenburg then applied to convince Felix Kroos to switch to their men’s team. The competitor himself said: “The guys from Fortuna did really great things in our little competition.”
The 35-time German national team player is currently sitting in at 1. FC Union, and already suggests that he will probably not be available every weekend. He wanted to “support Fortuna next year”, albeit with the qualification “as good as my professional challenges allow”. The Kroos brothers also emphasized that it was not just about changing Felix’s leisure time, but also to show “how important sports clubs and how important amateur and popular sport are in Germany”, as Toni explained: ” Not only for our sport, but also for our social cohesion. “