From BZ/dpa
Five-time Champions League winner Toni Kroos from Real Madrid broke off a TV interview after beating Liverpool in the final.
Real Madrid celebrates winning the title Photo: AFP
“You had 90 minutes to think of sensible questions and then you ask me two shitty questions,” replied the ex-world champion Kroos in the ZDF winner’s interview shortly after the 1-0. The 32-year-old was asked if it was surprising that Real came under so much pressure in the final on Saturday night at the Stade de France.
“It’s not surprising that you’re in trouble against Liverpool,” said Kroos. “What kind of question is that, you’re not playing a group game somewhere, we’re playing the Champions League final.” After the approach of another question, Kroos just walked away and scolded: “It’s really bad, really bad.”
Toni Kroos, here in a duel with Liverpool’s Fabinho, hadn’t had his best day – neither on the field nor in the interview zone Photo: Reuters
Kroos did not take the previous question well. “What is natural. We put up a great fight, we knew Liverpool were a great team,” Kroos replied, asking if the win wasn’t so obvious given the course of the game.
ZDF expert Per Mertesackerwho became world champion with Kroos in Brazil in 2014, said after the interview: “I’ve also experienced negative questions after a positive outcome.”
During the World Cup eight years ago, after the round of 16 victory against Algeria, Mertesacker expressed his anger at questions and said the sentence that has now become legendary in German football: “First of all, I’ll lie down in the ice bin for three days.”
