Mesut Ozil is a German footballer. He is an attacking midfielder. He is now playing for the club İstanbul Başakşehir. Mesut Ozil is famous for his passing skills, technical skills, creativity, and vision. He was born on 15th October 1988. Their place of birth of him was Gelsenkirchen, West Germany. Mesut Ozil is 5 ft 11 inches tall. His jersey number is ten. He is called the ‘Assist king’.
Mesut Ozil Early life:
This star was born on October 15, 1988, in the small town of Gelsenkirchen in West Germany. He was born into a Muslim family. Mesut Ozil is the youngest of four children of the father, Mostofa Ozil, and mother, Gulzar Ozil. His full name is Mesut Mostofa Ozil. He is the third generation of Turkish-German in his family.
From the very childhood, he had a keen interest in football. He used to practice football with boys older than him. Mesut Ozil started his football career in 1995, at the age of seven. In the early days, he started playing for many young clubs. In one of the clubs, his fans named him wizard Ozil after watching his game. After that, from 2000 to 2005, he played for another club before starting his senior club career.
Mesut Ozil as Senior Career:
Mesut Ozil started his senior club career in 2005 by joining the German club Schalke 04. He was then just 18 years. He plays there as a midfielder. But he left the club as he didn’t get along with the club authorities. After leaving Schalke 04, Ozil joined another German club Werder Bremen on 31 January 2008.
He moved to Werder Bremen for a reported fee of about five million euros. He played in Werder Bremen with jersey number 11. During his staying in Werder Bremen, he helped the club to win the 2009 DFB-Pokal and led Werder Bremen to the final of the UEFA Cup.
In 2008-2009, Bremen didn’t play very well in the Bundesliga season. But this season Ozil got three goals, 15 assists, and did a great performance.
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He made his debut for the German national team in a friendly match against Norway. Then he didn’t have to look back after that. In 2009, UFEA Championship he was selected for the Man of the Match. In the 2009-2010 season, Ozil has declared the best player of the first half of the season.
By playing in the first world cup of Ozil in 2010, he stepped into international football. Mesut Ozil caught the eyes of many. He got a nomination for the Golden Ball from FIFA. By amazing his performance in FIFA World Cup, the giant club Real Madrid took Ozil into his club by offering a great amount of money.
In Real Madrid, he had three great seasons. In 2011, in European and domestic competitions, Mesut Ozil assisted a total of 25 goals and got the first position. In 2012, UFEA European League, he assisted 3 goals which were the highest in that tournament.
In 2013, the English Football club Arsenal took Ozil by spending a club record 42.5 million Euro. By this, Ozil became the most expensive player of all time. Mesut Ozil played great in Arsenal also.
After a long nine years, with the help of Ozil, Arsenal got to win the trophy. Then in 2014, Ozil won the FIFA world cup with the national German team. In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Mesut Ozil assisted two goals and made one goal. From 2011 to 2016, a total of five times at a stretch, he got the German footballer of the year.
Then, he moved to Fenerbahce on 27th January 2021. It was a Turkish club. He stayed there from 2021 to 2022. After that, on 14th July 2022, he signed a contract with another Turkish club Istanbul Basaksehir. He is recently been playing there.
Mesut Ozil Personal Life:
As a person, Ozil leads a very ordinary life. His playing style of him, helping another player to make a goal, is very famous. He is also adored for his beautiful smile and good character. Mesut Ozil also has an outstanding contribution to humanitarian activities. He was also awarded by the German society for the best human qualities. Mesut Ozil married Amine Gulse Ozil 2019 who is a Turkish actress and model.
Ozil distributed the money he got from the FIFA world cup 2014 to the Philistine orphan child. Though Ozil came from a poor family, he proved himself in front of the world through his hard-working, diligence, and good behavior.
Why Ozil resigned from the German national team
Mesut Ozil won the world cup 2014 for Germany. He had written his name on the 5 German players of the year awards record book. After doing so many awards and all he got hatred from the German national football team.
In 2018, when the German football team announced their world cup squad, the discussion of criticism started around for that why Mesut Ozil was in the squad. Actually, before the World Cup started, Ozil uploaded a picture of him with the Turkish president in his social media handle.
With Mesut Ozil, another player Gundogan was there in the picture. Gundogan apologized but Ozil didn’t. So Mesut Ozil became the most hated player in Germany. After that, the people of Germany started attacking him for his religion, caste, and many other things. When he went through a bad match, people started to talk like that, he is an outsider and Mesut Ozil intentionally played bad.
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This thing goes extreme in the 2018 FIFA World Cup as he was not in form and the German team bid for the world cup at the group stage. So, after so many things, Ozil decided to go on retirement from the German national team.
After so many things happened to the life of the assistant king Mesut Ozil, he didn’t give up. Mesut Ozil respects his religion the most. He never compromises his religion for other people’s saying. Now, when the German team again bid the world cup 2022 at the group stage, most football lover is saying that this is karma for the German national team as they didn’t respect the gem.
He may be gotten hatred from his own country but at the same time. Mesut Ozil got much love and respect from every corner of the world. The football lover people can never disrespect him. Watching him play is a treat to the eyes of many.
