😂 Even Kroos can only laugh at this: ex-team-mate claims he invented him

No question, at the peak of his career, Arturo Vidal was a world-class footballer. The Chilean shone in midfield mainly due to his strength in tackles, less so because of perfect technique. Nevertheless, the 38-year-old is absolutely convinced that he taught Toni Kroos quite a bit.

“Toni Kroos learned a lot from me. He had good technique, but he completely lacked the touch. He came to me and Renato Augusto, and we showed him how football works – we taught him a lot,” said Vidal in a livestream.

The 2014 World Champion played together with Vidal and Augusto at Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2009 when he was 18 years old. Was the foundation for his later world-class career also laid there thanks to the two of them?

– Friday, 26 September 2025

Kroos’ response via Instagram says more than a thousand words. Arturo Vidal has never lacked self-confidence, after all.

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