{"id":763479,"date":"2026-04-30T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/763479\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:43:19","slug":"laliga-toni-kroos-set-for-real-madrid-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/763479\/","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Toni Kroos set for Real Madrid return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Germany midfielder, Toni Kroos, could be set for an emotional return to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, Kroos is in discussions with the LaLiga giants over a new role with key responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old played for Madrid before he retired at the end of the 2024 European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Since stepping away from the professional game, his focus has been on the Toni Kroos Academy, which opened in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid are keen for Kroos to join their sporting structure, in a role similar to that followed by Zinedine Zidane.<\/p>\n<p>Zidane accepted an advisory role in November 2010, before eventually becoming head coach of the first team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Germany midfielder, Toni Kroos, could be set for an emotional return to Real Madrid. According to The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":763480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[23958,10214,221,62,313687,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-763479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-toni-kroos","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116493248630797194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}