Kroos will hang up the boots after the Euros this summer and insists the workload wasn't the issue.
He told Cadena SER: No, no. I had the feeling that they needed me.
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"(Julian) Nagelsmann called me. I saw the games, I saw that they had suffered since the World Cup in Qatar. As I told you, Nagelsmann called me, he asked me if I wanted to play in the Euros, I thought about it and said yes. I feel good physically, which is the most important thing.
"It's playing a tournament after a long season. I think that with the team we have we can do more than what we have been doing."