Toni Kroos

Profile Football Stars | Toni Kroos | Kroos - who plays as a midfielder - changed to Bayern Munich's youth setup in 2006. For the 2007-08 season and on, Kroos was named to the senior team, at the young age of 17. Kroos has made an astounding start to his Bayern career, making his Bayern Munich debut on 26 September 2007 in the 5-0 mauling of Energie Cottbus and instantly Providing two assists for the two goals scored by Miroslav Klose within 18 minutes of his appearance.

On 18 April 2009 he scored his first goal in the Bundesliga against VfL Wolfsburg Bayer Leverkusen lost 2-1 the which. At the annual meeting of FC Bayern on 27 November 2009 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Announced That at the end of the season will return to Bayern's Kroos. After the 2010 World Cup to Bayern's Kroos returned from a one and a half year long loan spell where he scored 10 league goals in 43 appearances. During the season, Kroos made further appearances in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and also in the Champions League. He scored his first league goal on 29 October 2010, on match day 10 against SC Freiburg, a 25-yard one, the which made the score 4-1 for the Bavarians.

In the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Toni Kroos was awarded the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player and also won the Bronze Shoe after scoring five goals. Kroos' debut for the national U-21 team came on 5 September 2008 in a 2009 Euro U-21 Championship qualifier against Northern Ireland and scored the opening goal in the 11th minute, his second goal for the U-21 side was the goal in Germany's 1-0 win over Italy, a precise long- shot in the angle range.

Kroos was selected to Joachim Low's 23-man squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He made his World Cup debut in Germany's final group-stage match versus Ghana, coming on in the 80th minute for Bastian Schweinsteiger, with Germany leading 1-0. Kroos established Himself as a regular starter in Germany's qualification campaign for Euro 2012, playing in eight out of a possible ten games. Germany won all ten qualifying matches to top Group A.

Personal information
Full name Toni Kroos
Date of birth 4 January 1990 (age 22)
Place of birth Greifswald, East Germany
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Midfielder, Winger

Club information
Current club Bayern Munich
Number 39

Youth career
1997-2002 Greifswalder SV
Hansa Rostock 2002-2006
Bayern Munich 2006-2007

Senior career
years Team
Bayern Munich II 2007-2008 13 (4)
2007-Bayern Munich 76 (5)
2009-2010 Bayer Leverkusen (loan) 43 (10)

National team
2005-2007 Germany U17 34 (17)
2009 Germany U19 5 (3)
2008-2009 Germany U21 10 (2)
2010-Germany 25 (2)

Honours

Club
Bayern Munich
     Bundesliga: 2007-08
     DFB-Pokal: 2007-08
     DFB-Ligapokal: 2007
     DFB-Supercup: 2010

Germany
     FIFA World Cup 2010: Third place - Bronze medal
     FIFA U-17 World Championship: 2007: Third place - Bronze medal
     UEFA U-17 Championship: 2007: Fourth Place

Individual
     UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship Golden Player: 2006
     UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship top scorer: 2007
     FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007 Golden Ball
     FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007 Bronze Shoe
     Fritz-Walter-Medal 2008 in Gold (U18 Category)

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Holger Badstuber

Profile Football Stars | Holger Badstuber | From 2002 to 2007, Badstuber progressed through the youth setup at Bayern Munich. He played for Bayern's reserve team before signing professional terms in July 2009, along with team-mate Thomas Müller, having been an unused substitute in a number of first-team matches in the 2008-09 season. However the youngster impressed in his first season, started all league games and one save in the 2009-10 Bundesliga season. Throughout the 2010-11 season with Bayern, Badstuber endured a tumultuous relationship with coach Louis van Gaal, who That Despite stating he has high trust in Badstuber, Criticized him strongly Following a number of poor performances.

Badstuber was then selected in Germany's 23-man squad for the world cup finals in South Africa on 1 June, and being handed the squad number 14 shirt by coach Joachim Low. Badstuber then started the next group game against Serbia on 18 June 2010 in Port Elizabeth at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. He played 77 minutes, prior to being substituted for fellow Bayern team mate Mario Gómez.  After the World Cup Erratic, Badstuber improved his performances with consistency and established Himself as a defender in the starting lineup Low's team.

He helped Germany to win all 10 matches of the Mannschaft's qualification campaign for Euro 2012 to top group A by playing nine out of a possible ten matches, he was only spared in the - for qualification irrelevant - last match against Belgium. During the campaign Badstuber scored his first goal, the 5-1 against Azerbaijan, he headed home a corner kick by Mesut Özil. In a friendly 3-3 draw on 11 November 2011 against Ukraine, in the international match Inauguration of the new Olympic Stadium Kiev, Low's experimental formation featured only three defenders, Badstuber was named as the single center back, this was interpreted as a signal That Candidates out of many possible Badstuber has established Himself as Low's most Important player in Germany's central defense.

Personal information
Full name Holger Badstuber
Date of birth 13 March 1989 (age 23)
Place of birth Memmingen, West Germany
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Centre back / Left back

Club information
Current club Bayern Munich
Number 28

Youth career
TSV 1994-2000 Rot
VfB Stuttgart 2000-2002
Bayern Munich 2002-2007

Senior career
years Team
Bayern Munich II 2007-2009 55 (7)
2009-Bayern Munich 88 (1)

National team
2007-2008 Germany U19 2 (0)
2008-2009 Germany U20 3 (0)
2009-2010 Germany U21 7 (2)
2010-Germany 19 (1)

Honours

Club
Bayern Munich
     Bundesliga Champion: 2009-10
     DFB-Pokal: 2009-10
     DFL-Supercup (1): 2010
     UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2009-10

Germany
     FIFA World Cup 2010: Third place - Bronze medal

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