How A World Football XI Might Look In 5 Years Time

Centre Midfield - TONI KROOS

Over the last couple of years, the rise of Kroos has been fairly meteoric. He has gone from being a backup player to the likes of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Javi Martinez at Bayern Munich, to a world-class, World Cup-winning playmaker. At 24, he is still young, and his metronomic brilliance in the middle of the park for new club Real Madrid is a joy to watch. The silky German has wonderful passing at his disposal, and his ability to keep possession but also open up defences makes him one of the world's most influential midfielders at present. Defensively he also reads the game very well, and his work ethic and general attitude are terrific. Kroos has already achieved so much already, and there can surely be no doubting that he is only going to get better over the next five or six years. In 2019 he will be 29 and at the peak of his powers, and goodness knows what he will have achieved in the game by that point. He is a fabulous footballer.