Sports Toni Kroos got so drunk he called 'an emergency doctor' after 2012 Champions League final defeat

Toni Kroos hit the tequila so hard after Bayern Munich's shock defeat to Chelsea in the 2012 Champions League final that he called an emergency doctor.

The Bundesliga side were stunned in their own back yard as Didier Drogba nonchalantly slotted the deciding spot-kick past Manuel Neuer at the Allianz Arena that May.

As Drogba wheeled away, Petr Cech chased him and Frank Lampard collapsed to the floor, Kroos was left in shock after the overwhelming favourites threw a 1-0 lead in extra-time - a feeling that persisted late into the night for the German.

'The Champions League final against Chelsea in 2012 - that was us drinking out of frustration. We were close to needing an emergency doctor,' Kroos' brother, Felix, told the Einfach mal Luppen podcast.

Now at Real Madrid, the midfielder responded: 'It was not a good thing but at least there was a reason for it. I remember that Jessi (Kroos' wife) said: "We can't call a doctor now. Imagine if it came out that I called an emergency doctor for having too much to drink!"

'There was no other way (to ease the pain of defeat). In the end I had to call the emergency doctor myself because I thought: "It can't be allowed to get worse than this."

'It was my fault that I wasn't feeling well the next day. That was the point I said: "It (drinking alcohol) doesn't do any good." I couldn't look at tequila that evening and that's why I gave it up completely. It didn't hurt and I don't miss it.'

While Kroos was cruelly sat on the sidelines nursing an adductor injury Bayern rebounded in 2013, storming to the final at Wembley and beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the first all-German final.

The midfielder, now 30-year-old, finally got his European final glory eventually, making his £22m move to Real Madrid just in time for the Spanish side's run of three consecutive triumphs between 2015/16 and 2017/18.