“Thanks, it wasn’t that important”
Kroos mocks UEFA report on hand penalty
September 24, 2024, 5:18 p.m
The European Championship ends extremely bitterly for Toni Kroos and the DFB team. A controversial penalty decision is heating up tempers in the country. Now, months later, UEFA is classifying the whistle as a mistake. Kroos reacts to the late realization with derision.
Toni Kroos can’t believe UEFA’s admission of error regarding the denied hand penalty in the European Championship quarter-finals against Spain. “It took them three months to realize that it was hand – which almost everyone did in the second. That calms me down a lot,” said the 2014 world champion mockingly on Monday evening on the fourth matchday of his Icon League in Düsseldorf.
“But thanks, it wasn’t that important. Makes me feel good,” Kroos continued to joke: “Can I now call myself European champion, after all? You have now officially confirmed it.” The 34-year-old, for whom the German team’s exit from the European Championships against Spain (1:2 nV) was the last game of his career, gave the answer himself shortly afterwards: “I don’t think it works that way.”
The referee and VAR did not intervene
On Monday, the Spanish platform “Relevo” reported that the UEFA referee committee had analyzed some scenes from the European Championship tournament last week and came to the conclusion that there should have been a penalty for Germany for Marc Cucurella’s handball.
When the score was 1-1 in extra time, Cucurella blocked a shot from Jamal Musiala with his left arm. However, the English referee Anthony Taylor denied the host a hand penalty, and the video assistant did not intervene either.
