German star Toni Kroos, Real Madrid's midfield midfielder, criticized the shirt design worn by the "meringue" during the current football season 2022-2023.
Real Madrid is famous for wearing white shirts and shorts, a tradition that the "royal" club has maintained this season as well, but with the addition of a collar to the shirt, which annoyed the German star.
And Kroos appeared on his “podcast” feeling uncomfortable with the design of the shirt, and he said angrily - in statements reported by the Spanish newspaper “AS” - “We have a collar on the shirt again this season! In my opinion, the polo system (a collar with two buttons or 3 buttons plus an optional chest pocket) Does not fit soccer jerseys.
Toni Kroos on his podcast: “We have a collar [on the shirt] again this season.
A polo is not a football shirt.
To all the designers: this is really shit!
Kits with a collar are not good, they are uncomfortable and ugly." pic.twitter.com/IOppyV5D8O
— Sports X (@sportsxofficial) March 4, 2023
He added that his words, "This is directed at all manufacturers, what you are doing is a big nonsense, shirts with collars are not good."
Kroos explained that playing shirts with this design are "uncomfortable and not fun at all," then continued sarcastically, "We only have two buttons! They need to add a few more buttons, then we can play with the shirt, it's not nice."
And the Spanish newspaper stresses that this is not the first time that Cross, 33, has objected to designing clothes.
Kroos believes that the most beautiful shirt he wore with Real Madrid was during the 2019-2020 season, and it was with a white design and golden stripes, and he still keeps a copy of it in his home.
The German player said, "It was the most beautiful shirt I have ever played in, the truth is that I said to myself at the time: We must win titles with this shirt."
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And he continued, "If we do not win a title with this shirt, it is rude of us and disrespectful to the shirt, but in the end we were champions. Sometimes, I did not even want to change it, and I wanted to take it home."
It is noteworthy that Real Madrid succeeded in winning the Spanish Football League title with the shirt that Kroos refers to in the 2019-2020 season, after scoring 87 points, 5 points behind its rival Barcelona.
Real Madrid currently occupies second place in the “La Liga” standings table, with 52 points, and is 7 points behind leaders Barcelona, after 23 rounds of the 2022-2023 season have passed.
Kroos played 33 matches with Real Madrid in all competitions this season, with a total of 2366 minutes, during which he scored two goals and provided 4 assists.