{"id":122303,"date":"2026-03-04T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/?p=122303"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:05:24","slug":"felix-kroos-from-professional-soccer-to-a-smart-look-at-team-spirit-pressure-and-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/en\/magazin\/felix-kroos-from-professional-soccer-to-a-smart-look-at-team-spirit-pressure-and-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Kroos \u2013 From professional soccer to a smart look at team spirit, pressure, and decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Felix Kroos: \u201cSoccer is a team sport \u2013 no one wins anything alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This idea runs like a thread through Felix Kroos’<\/strong> career. He not only describes how games are won. He also describes how organizations work \u2013 and why cooperation, trust, and responsibility determine success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felix Kroos has spent over two decades in professional soccer. He knows the pressure of the big stage, the dynamics of teams, and the reality of a profession in which performance is publicly evaluated \u2013 week after week. It is precisely this experience that he brings to stages, the media, and companies today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felix Kroos – between talent, expectations, and personal identity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Felix Kroos was born in Greifswald in 1991 and started playing soccer at an early age. His career took him from the youth teams in Rostock to professional soccer. He played for Hansa Rostock, Werder Bremen, Union Berlin, and Eintracht Braunschweig<\/strong>, among others, and made numerous appearances in German professional soccer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early on, he was considered one of the greatest talents of his age group in Germany. At the same time, his career was always overshadowed by another name: his brother Toni Kroos, 2014 World Cup winner and one of the most successful German soccer players in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felix Kroos never shied away from this comparison. On the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cComparisons are part of professional sports.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of letting it get to him, he developed a perspective that still shapes his lectures today: success does not come from comparison \u2013 but from clarity about one’s own role.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What professional sports teach us about leadership and teamwork<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who plays in a professional team for many years quickly learns that talent alone is not enough. Success comes from many factors: trust, communication, a sense of responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felix Kroos therefore often talks about team spirit, motivation, and the ability to deal with pressure<\/strong> \u2013 topics that have accompanied him throughout his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA team only works if everyone understands their role.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In soccer, that means defenders, midfielders, strikers \u2013 everyone is responsible for the whole. It’s no different in business. There, too, clarity, trust, and cooperation determine whether a team is successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These parallels make his perspective particularly valuable for companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The podcast that reaches millions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his career as a player, Felix Kroos became known primarily for a project that shows a completely different side of professional sports: the podcast \u201cEinfach mal Luppen\u201d <\/strong>(Just Take a Look), which he hosts together with his brother Toni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The podcast launched in 2020 and quickly became one of the most successful soccer podcasts in the German-speaking world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, the brothers talk about soccer, career decisions, personal experiences\u2014but also about family, everyday life, and life behind the scenes of professional sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn \u2018Einfach mal Luppen,\u2019 listeners are basically on our phone line.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversations are open, humorous, and sometimes surprisingly honest. That’s exactly what makes it so appealing: two professionals talking about their world without filters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the pitch to the media and business<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Felix Kroos deliberately ended his active professional career \u2013 after a total of 24 years in soccer, 13 of them as a professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This step was not a retirement, but a new beginning. Today, he is a TV expert, presenter, podcast host, and keynote speaker, among other things.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He uses his experience from professional sports to shed light on topics that go far beyond soccer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n