{"id":801771,"date":"2025-03-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/?p=801771"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:11:20","slug":"the-10-best-free-kick-takers-according-to-toni-kroos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/europa\/the-10-best-free-kick-takers-according-to-toni-kroos","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best free-kick takers according to Toni Kroos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Toni Kroos was asked to rank 10 players to form his list of the best free-kick takers in history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple exercise that many people attempt: establishing a Top 10 in a given area, while gradually discovering the available options. Therein lies the challenge, and the ranking established by Toni Kroos on the digital media channel 433 even yielded a few surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, the question posed to the German was to rank the best free-kick takers in a Top 10, but with the added bonus of only knowing their names when mentioned by the presenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfaf El mejor lanzador de faltas para Toni Kroos es una leyenda del Real Madrid.<br><br>\ud83d\udcac \u00bfEst\u00e1s de acuerdo con su r\u00e1nking?<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FwkAL6M1wT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FwkAL6M1wT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; madridistaReal (@RMadridistaReal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMadridistaReal\/status\/1901695687605240107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The retired Toni Kroos created a ranking in which Lionel Messi (5th) was better than Cristiano Ronaldo (9th), and Beckham and Juninho occupied second and third place, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He himself ranked 10th, with the presenter feeling compelled to interject: &#8220;You&#8217;re so humble!&#8221; Zinedine Zidane was ranked 4th, Sneijder 8th, and Ronaldinho 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And ultimately, the last name to emerge was the winner, Brazilian Roberto Carlos. This suited Kroos well, as he believes the former Real Madrid player, &#8220;a friend of his,&#8221; fully deserves to top his list of the best shooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Kroos was asked to rank 10 players to form his list of the best free-kick takers in history. It&#8217;s a simple exercise that many people attempt: establishing a Top 10 in a given area, while gradually discovering the available options. Therein lies the challenge, and the ranking established by Toni Kroos on the digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":801772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[109,1181],"class_list":["post-801771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europa","tag-real-madrid","tag-toni-kroos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NOUVEAU-POUR-SITE-2025-03-18T111014.768.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfmZoa-3mzN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801774,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801771\/revisions\/801774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}