Al Nassr faces Al-Riyadh in a Saudi Pro League match on Thursday, May 23, 2024 (05/23/24) at the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Here’s what you need to know:
What: Saudi Pro League match
Who: Al Nassr against Al-Riyadh
When: May 23, 2024
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Where: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium
Television: FOX Sports 2
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Here’s a recent football story from the AP:
MADRID (AP) — Toni Kroos will retire from soccer after trying to give Real Madrid another Champions League trophy and lead Germany to the European Championship title on home soil.
The 34-year-old German midfielder said Tuesday it was a difficult decision, but the timing seemed “kind of perfect.”
“I always wanted to leave at the peak of my abilities and I know, and from many examples that you see, that it is not easy, that you can miss that moment very quickly,” Kroos said in a podcast. greets with his brother.
“I never wanted to have the feeling at the end that the club, the supporters, the people around me would have to say to me: ‘Enough’, or that I would spend another two or three years sitting on the bench.
Madrid thanked Kroos and praised his achievements with the team.
“Real Madrid would like to express its gratitude and affection to Toni Kroos, a player who will go down in the history of Real Madrid as one of the greatest legends of our club and international football,” the club said.
Kroos was a world champion with Germany in 2014 in Brazil and also enjoyed a successful career with Bayern Munich, helping them win one Champions League and three German league titles.
Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final on June 1 in London. His European trophies with Madrid came in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022. He won the Champions League with Bayern in 2013.
Kroos has been at Madrid since 2014, helping them win 22 titles, including four European Cups and four Spanish championships. He played 463 matches for the club, who called the midfielder “a key player in one of the most successful periods in Real Madrid’s 122-year history.”
“Toni Kroos is one of the great players in the history of Real Madrid and this club will always be his home,” said club president Florentino Pérez.
Madrid said Kroos will forever remain in the hearts of all supporters “thanks to his mastery of the game and the fact that he gave everything for our jersey, an unwavering example of the values of Real Madrid.”
Kroos’ contract with Madrid expires at the end of this season and the club and player are said to have negotiated an extension.
Kroos said in February he had agreed to play for Germany at Euro 2024 after a request from coach Julian Nagelsmann. He has not played for the national team for almost three years, since Germany’s defeat by England in the second round of the last European Championship.
Kroos was named to Germany’s preliminary squad for the tournament last week.
He said a few months ago that he didn’t know what would happen next season.
“I thought about it for a very long time and in the last few days I came to the conclusion that this season, this wonderful season, the 10th season with Real, is also my last season with Real,” Kroos said on Tuesday.
“And everyone who has listened to me over the last few months or years will have heard at one point or another the phrase that the only option for me was to end my career at Real Madrid. And if you can put one and one, you know that my last season with Real means it will end this summer.
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