Germany midfielder Toni Kroos joins Real Madrid from Bayern Munich on 6-year contract
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}German national soccer players from left : Miroslav Klose, Philipp Lahm, Lars Bender, Sami Khedira and Toni Kroos arrive with the team at Tegel airport in Berlin Tuesday July 15, 2014. Germany beat Argentina 1-0 on Sunday to win its fourth World Cup title. (AP Photo/Karina Hessland,pool) (The Associated Press)
Germany midfielder Toni Kroos has joined Real Madrid from Bayern Munich on a six-year contract.
Madrid said the 24-year-old Kroos, a key member of Germany's World Cup-winning team, would be presented at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium later Thursday.
Neither Champions League winner Madrid nor Bundesliga champion Bayern disclosed the transfer fee.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kroos was chosen as the best player at the 2007 Under-17 World Cup, when Germany finished third.
He joined Bayern when he was 16 and later spent 18 months on loan at Bayer Leverkusen before returning. He was a regular starter since Pep Guardiola took over as coach last season.
Kroos helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013 and domestic doubles the past two seasons.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He was on Germany's 2010 World Cup squad, but was given a bigger role in coach Joachim Loew's team during qualifying for this year's tournament in Brazil.
Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge thanked Kroos for his time in Munich and wished him "all the best in Madrid and at Real."