How Toni Kroos’ Icon League competes with amateur football

Toni Kroos was never the player who made a lot of meters, never the one who rushed from one tackle to the next; he was the quiet strategist who controlled the game with foresight and patience. Now, after his career, Kroos, 35, is much more active off the pitch, you could almost think he has started dribbling, from project to project: Kroos, who continues to live in Madrid, founded his own football club called “Toni Kroos”. and a youth academy for young footballers, plus the weekly podcast with his brother Felix continues lively, and hardly a day goes by on the X and Instagram platforms without contributions from the six-time Champions League winner. There is now also its own small-field league, the Icon League, which started its first season at the beginning of September and which Kroos founded together with the Berlin influencer Elias Nerlich.