Since the end of Germany’s Euro 2020 campaign in June, the midfielder has not played a competitive match as he has been recovering from a groin problem.
Kroos feels excellent because today he was able to do his third training session
Toni Kroos is excited to make his return for Real Madrid as he revealed that he spent several months playing through pain. Since the end of Germany’s Euro 2020 campaign in June, the midfielder has not played a competitive match as he has been recovering from a groin problem. Kroos, 31, says his recovery is going well, as he has felt comfortable in recent training sessions and hopes to be back in the Madrid team soon. Kroos said he had been suffering for months when playing for Madrid and Germany and needed medication to deal with the pain. “I’m happy because today I was able to do my third training session with the team without being in pain after six or seven months with pain, so it’s an excellent feeling,” he said.
It was tough for the German international not played in three months
“I have not played in three months, the last game was on June 29, at the European Championship, so I have to gain a little rhythm. But the most important thing is that it doesn’t bother me much. From now on, we can start talking about the games. We have reached that point where I wanted to be. It’s been almost eight weeks now, but all the time during the last five or six months, I knew that it would come to the point where I would have to stop because it has been a long time. I started feeling discomfort in March or so and knew there was something in my groin. From there, I knew that if I continued playing, I would get to the point of not being able to anymore.”
“Still, it was tough to stop because I had to play the quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the Champions League, then the European Championship.”
Kroos told himself that he was going on vacation
“It was tough for me to stop because of this. Then I told myself that I was going on vacation, to see if in those three weeks it would improve with rest and all that. Later, when I returned to training in Madrid, I tried and saw that I had not improved a bit and that I had to stop.” He added: “What we did was a lot of work to find out exactly what was there. It was not an option to have an operation or something like that; I have not thought about this because I always prefer, if there is no other way, to do it with conservative treatment, which has always helped me. It has lasted a little longer, it’s true, but I have played six months with pain, or not with pain but with a lot of pills and between games with a lot of pain. I knew it would last a little longer now.”