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Toni Kroos, 31, criticized the verdict in the case of Christoph Metzelder, 40, in his podcast "Einfach mal Luppen" recorded with his brother Felix. The former national player had confessed to having owned child and youth pornographic files and forwarded them to three women, and had been sentenced to ten months probation.

The judgment is now final.

“Many have expressed themselves and are rightly of the same opinion that it is disgusting to do something like this,” said Kross: “There are hardly any words that can be said here.

That makes you angry, such a judgment that something like this is even possible. "

Lukas Podolski, Kevin Kuranyi, Mario Götze and Max Kruse had already criticized the judgment.

"He somehow gets out of court as a free man," said Kroos: "Suspended sentence or not, and that's just one thing that doesn't work."

In 2019 Christoph Metzelder (l.) Attended the premiere of the documentary about Toni Kroos (r.)

Source: pa / dpa / Horst Galuschka

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The brothers also commented on the quarantine training camps prescribed for the teams in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga.

"You first have to find the one player who thinks that's good," said Braunschweig second division professional Felix Kroos: "Training camps are not the highlight of their career in themselves."

"For a week at the hotel bar ..."

In order to ensure a regular end of the season in both top leagues in the corona pandemic, the German Football League (DFL) had arranged the training camps for the final phase.

Accordingly, the first division clubs must isolate themselves from May 12 to 22, and the second division from May 12 to 23.

The last two match days of both leagues fall during this period.

International player Toni Kroos from Spain does not know such measures as a professional at Real Madrid.

"I understand the DFL that they decide it that way," said 30-year-old Felix Kroos.

But at the end of the already unusual season, being locked in a hotel for eleven days "on top" is difficult.

His brother can understand that.

"Those who prefer to be in a hotel rather than at home have done something wrong at home," said Toni Kroos.

It is even more difficult for those for whom nothing is at stake, said the 31-year-old.

Felix Kroos is still playing with Eintracht Braunschweig to stay in class.

“If we manage to stay up on the penultimate match day, then that sucks in the hotel too,” he said, “but then you can sit down at the hotel bar for a week and make a little more fun out of it.”