Ozil Could Have Been The GOAT Playmaker, But Then He Disappeared
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1:31 How Ozil Was Denied Citizenship Despite Being Born In Germany
4:00 The Absurd Rise Of Ozil
8:02 Why Did Ozil Leave Real Madrid
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11:35 Why Did Ozil Leave Real Madrid
12:07 The Controversial Transfer to Arsenal
15:48 The Worst Contract Renewal of All Time
Getting 19 assists from the team with only Sanchez doing justice to his passes is just unbelievable. In any other top top team, that season would have given him 35 assists.
For real, he and Sanchez carried Arsenal at that time, plus with the directive fucking it up on Sanchez last years it went downhill right away. Ozil was a baller for sure
Some of those players should be in jail for bottling his greatness
First watched Ozil in euro 2008, never seen someone with the vision he had. Unbelievable talent!
He didn't play in 2008 euros ...
@@hamzamushab I think he means the under 21 euros
@@Real_Deutsch_boy makes sense
LOOOOOOOOOOOL
That's a shame since he didn't play at that tournament.
I am a man United fan but ozil was a baller. ..such talents won't be seen anytime soon...happy retirement ozil....the assist king
Exactly exactly, exfuckingactly!!
Ozil was a class act. It was a blessing for him was to play alongside a prime Ronaldo - Ronaldo buried most chances created by Ozil... Ozil - Underrated master class 🙌
He was definitely the Assists King.
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@@liyabonanokamba ofc he is. he was on the right track until some hustlers who are plastic fans creates rumours, and unfortunately happens to be racism.
@@shayaanzarifrahmanvictoria7190 was the Turkish league also racist when they dropped him? He turned into a lazy shit at the end of his career. The only reason people make excuses for him is because he has an incredible or team
@@shayaanzarifrahmanvictoria7190 pr team*
lazy but more work rate thqn sanchez but sanchez is so called hardworking. drop the act
Özil was an absolute mastermind. Sad his career come to an unworthy end and indeed hoped we will see him back at his home club Schalke, but our situation was simply to bad. I have huge respect for him that he always spoke out his mind ("in good times i'm german, in bad times i'm turkish") and showed off field engagement for very important but uncomfortable topics (persecution of chinese muslims) while risking his own career. Also I cheered him up for always admitting his own faults (bad greedy management in his first years, personal decisions, etc.). Sadly most germans still feel offended when some players can adapt to two nationalities/cultures...
That’s messed up. Americans don’t seem to face the same problem. There are so many dual national players and their home countries aren’t hostile to eachother unlike Germans and Turks
You can't even blame him for that, he wasn't a citizen until he was 16 and a footy talent being scouted. Of course he will identify with what he was raised to be seen as.
yeah cause he was a muslim@@Jj_2723
U like Nazis Robert? Özil is a Nazi. See his Tatoo on the chest.
The only problem with Ozil was that he was a Turkish Muslim in a racist nazi Germany !
He was by far my favorite player in his prime. He played at my club Werder Bremen and then at Madrid, he was one of the absolute best and just a joy to watch. I am a german and it gets me furious every time listening how other germans are talking about him. They have no clue, they are reducing him on the picture with Erdogan. They have no clue what a diamond we had. He was one of the best german players of all time!!!
Don't care much about the Erdogan thing, but you have to remember two things: -When that happened, his career was already in freefall and that event just destroyed him further, particularly as it was not a great period of Arsenal's history and was followed by Germany's crash at the World Cup in 2018; -As you say, Ozil's best years were with Werder and Real. He deserves immense plaudits for that. Yet what we mostly hear about is how brilliant he was in... England, where he had the worst periods of his career. He deserves to be remembered for all the good things he did prior to moving to Arsenal, after that not so much.
doesn't matter how good he was as he was turkeys diamond not yours
Einverstanden. Aber was für ein Sensibelchen! Im Vergleich zu anderen Profisportlern, mein ich. Eine echte Diva :D Aber zu Recht, keine Frage. Das er sich dann ohne Not "gegen" Deutschland entschied, und dafür steht, für mich, das Erdogan-Foto, find ich trotzdem mieß. Neben allem Schmäh und aller berechtigter und unberechtigter Kritik wurde er mit Sicherheit auch hier ordentlich angehimmelt. Dann umzuziehen in ein Land, wo Leute, wenn sie dich eben dissen, in den Knast wandern können find ich nicht so stark. Als türkenliebender Berliner
As an Arsenal supporter, there were so many times when he should've just shot but he always looked for a fancy pass. That would drive me nuts.
Ozil and Hleb.... genius passers but refuses to shoot😅
@UVWXYZ it's a crime to compare Özil and Hleb. Hleb needs help
Were u ALSO chanting/believed “better than Zidane”? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣DELUSIONAL ARSENAL FANS! THE GOAT OF MIDFIELD VS. Ozil 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mazkebar its a song.. u believe people fly to the moon? Are you Drax in disguise that you take everything literally? Dumbest comment on youtube in 2023.
@@mazkebar ozil is very comparable to zidane
Mesut Özil is a hard case. Because I'm German, the subject of Özil often comes up and I've talked and argued with others about him a lot. In my opinion, Özil is perhaps the most talented player Germany has ever had. He was absurdly good, his understanding of the game, his vision, he saw spaces and opportunities before they were there. He was creative, technically unbelievably good, could dribble and decide 1 vs 1 situations for himself, something that only a few in the German national team, could do. He was the perfect playmaker and a joy to watch. He had the potential to become one of the greatest of all time. But then there was also the other side of Özil, a very frustrating side. He was undisciplined, lazy and and a difficult human being from time to time. His body language on the pitch was often questionable, when the game wasn't going his way he would get frustrated and sometimes stop playing. He was the kind of player we in Germany call a "Schönwetterfußball", that means a player who only performs when it's going well. Beyond the appropriate criticism, Özil has received a lot of racism in Germany. Even tho he was born and raised in Gelsenkirchen(Schalke), many Germans could not appreciate him simply because of his turkish roots. Now that his career is over, Mesut Özil will forever be one of the biggest "what if's" in modern football for me.
only that he never recieved lots of racism because of his turkish roots. gündogan is loved here in germany as well. why? because he is a likable person. he is intelligent, and never says or does stupid shit. özil on the other hand like you said was a lazy slob and this is why he recieved so much hate from us. btw not taking pictures with a dictator helps as well. imagine a scenario where müller or neuer takes pictures with hitler, how would people like that? yes gündogan did it as well but we all know that he is a good person and he apologized so we forgave him. stop playing the race card because it has always been his own fault.
He doesn't need to show "work-rate", that's an excuse. Germany had so many good solid options for ball holding and midfield control, the last thing you want is you creative genius getting into tackles and risking injury all the time. Guys like Pirlo and Ozil , Juan Riquelme , Paolo Sosa, make up for "work rate" with their creative talents. The rest of the team knows this and covers for it, or makes the right calls in behind. These guys are even more precious because the modern footballer is an absolute machine at doing the basics, they can all tackle, run , press etc, but very few of them can do what Ozil did and have that ball on a string. You can see that with the 2022 Argentinian team, which was entirely setup around Messi and in the semi against Croatia you could see how that worked when he turned it on against Gvardiol. In tight games you need an Ozil, a Pirlo, a Messi , a Zidane to bring magic that is the 1% differentiator and wins you games. Germany should have built an entire team around Ozil, and when he wanted to leave Arsenal, brought him back to Bayern or Dortmund or even Werder and stuck him cotton wool.
@@Dir3ctH3X I never said he had to get into tackles or help out defensively to show "work rate". That's not what I meant and nobody expected that from him. When things weren't going well or he simply didn't feel like it, he also neglected his offensive duties from time to time. He no longer sprinted for the ball or gave up after a few steps, hung his head, didn't really offer to get the ball or to get involved in the game. He started to play the safe pass instead of trying something more risky, his standards got worse, he took a lot of very bad penalties in important situations, he just seemed unmotivated.
@@Dir3ctH3X so much bs in that comment. btw ozil wasn't even good enough for bayern, dortmund or bremen when he left arsenal. why should we try and save his career? he never gave a shit and didn't give us anything. we don't owe him anything. he is just 1 of thousands of players who wasted their career by being lazy. I can assure you that nobody in germany gives a shit about ozil and nobody wanted him back in germany.
@@therodian96 That just speaks to bad management to be honest. Mourinho got a tune out of him. A manager that doesn't do magic on the best of days. Confidence players need nurturing, even Messi decided he'd had enough of the Albiceleste at one point and walked out until they begged him to come back
racism happened
The Truth is not racsims
You mean xenophobia...
can you tell why ilkay gündogan still plays for the german national team? both were heavily criticised after taking pictures with erdogan but only gündogan had the balls to say sorry...
@@seadescobar1259ilkay didnt had the balls, he was a pussy for apologies without a reason, anyone can have a political opinion
Nope We love gündogan.
I was never a fan of any club ozil ever played at but he was always one of my favourite players! His only problem was he was the best at a position that was being fazed out of football. Was always a treat to get to see him do his thing
I will never forget ozil. It was beautiful to watch him play
I still fail to digest the fact that he failed to break Henry's record premier league assist of 20 while he had reached 18 assist at the first half of the season and only got 1 assist at the second half.. Was it him or the strikers fault, but that is something hard to get over... Amazing player, always loved him even though he played for clubs I don't support
Zlatan had the same problem... He fought through. When Sweden wins a match!!! The SWEDE ZLATAN scored. When they lose! The Bosnian Zlatan lost. It seems no one stood by Özil's side which is sad . But! A world cup title, that can't be removed from the history. Danke schön 👏👏
Ozil said he went to Real only Bc Mourinho called him and the club showed more interest by showing the whole club and barca just showed the club and guardiola didn’t even came by to talk with him
It was better for him to join Madrid cos he couldn't have benched any of the barca starters back then
@@defjam137 like Fábregas back Then
@@V4velasquez Fabregas wasn’t at Barca when ozil joined madrid, cesc joined Barca a year later
Arsenal wasted him. I say this as an Arsenal fan
He was always that very talented and gifted kid who did not try hard enough but when he did... he was magical!
Totally agree. There is a reason Real Madrid won so much after Ozil left. They filled his position with better workrate...Real were better without Ozil.....sorry to say, but its the truth
@@rond3238 Real was better because they had a better coach and all around better players.
If Mesut Ozil Stayed at Real, He WOULD'VE been the best midfielder ever.
Imagine him and Modric forming Madrid's dynamic midfield duo. 🤯 And in that alternate reality, Kroos would stay with Bayern and not get transferred to Madrid.
@@KingKaiFistx20 Modric isn’t anything special lmao. He was holding the bench for Khedria, Alonso and Özil. Incredibly overrated
@@blank1933 And the earth is flat. I like your name though, it perfectly describes what you have between your ears.
@@kiklopka8690 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Forever one of my favorite players of all time. He was something special, I wish he had never left Madrid.
The stuff you said about germany at the time cant be more true. I remember when the 2010 WC was my teachers were praising özils perfomance. "The Turkish guy was really good at that game". thats what one of them said.
he betrayed Turkey for fame and money. this is the truth and any real Turk knows that...
he betrayed Turkey for fame and money. this is the truth and any real Turk knows that...
he was called turk because thats what he was and is.
@@dirtyhands8351You do realize it does make someone feel like an outsider? When they are born and raised in germany? No shit his heritage is not german, but you should call him german. Look at Zlatan, even though he also faced racism he is always called swedish
@@Vitoman901 don't be an outsider then you don't get called one. Idc about heritage. Any refugee that has lived here for 2 years can speak better german than him. He lived in a parallel society.
Man, this hast to be one of the best channels on this platform! Thank you and keep it up
Just such a different player. Not the most physical but the way he thought outside the box is incredible
Maybe the best player ever at making the final ball. Getting the assist
There's is alot of information missing in a certain part of this video. Germany is one of several nations that leans heavily on Jus Sanguinis instead of Jus Solis (birthright citizenship). As a result, Klose and Podolski are automatically Germans because they are Aussiedler since they had German Ancestors from the Prussian Province of Silesia. Because of the wars, part of their ancestors became emigrants. Both of them had the option of "Right to Return" to Germany. Even if they were born outside of the country, they're still Germans; hence Jus Sanguinis.
this video is extremely poorly researched and uses a populist narrative to act like Özil was somehow an unfair outsider case, when in reality this is simply just the norm of how citizenship works.
Yet now you let all the terrorists in to your country without any question.
He was one of the key figures at winning the 2014 WC. Without him, I truly think we wouldn't have completed the knock-out stage. I feel bad for what was done to him because of his political believes. He was treated poorly by the german public.
As a Canadian hockey fan, I can attest that we get worked up about our squads, but y’all take footy so impossibly deep into the core of your being that even the Good Lord Themself could dig it out of them!
As an Arsenal fan I was beyond excited when we got him, back then he was one of the best players in the world. And he was good for a couple of years but at a certain point he just stopped working hard, it like he didn't care anymore. Some players fall out of love with the game, it's sad but it's true.
After the fact that arsenal didn't stand with him he felt betrayed, that is why he was protesting against the club.
@@bigjockknew7277 i really don't think so, he has the most created chances in the history of the premier league, he was in arsenal in a time where there was no good striker. He played the same way in arsenal the same way he did in real Madrid. Then why did he flop, you bring a world class player to a bad team. He was the major factor for the club winning something in the last 7 years
@@bigjockknew7277 absurd Ozil is clear
At least you got some 2 good seasons. As a Real Madrid fan we had Hazard (also known as the Belgian Waffle to us).
Ozil was and is one of my favorite players.I loved watching him while Playing at Real and Arsenal.It's sad he needed to retire....
wow what a video!!! you are not just analyzing the footbal side but the social and personal side. Bravo
thanks man, i try
Can you please do a video about an African player called Abutrika he is one of the best players in Egypts history that didn't play in Europe. Just follow Manual Josey to al ahly and you will find a story worth telling.
Abutrika is a very good shout. I would say also Hossam Hassan, Mahmoud El Khatib or goalkeeper Essam El Hadary who was always defying age. Those would be the best examples from Egypt’s past.
The player who was exiled from his own nation.... what a title
No thanks
Was my favourite player at one time😢.But that Mourinho's advice was legit.
Ozil is my favourite player in Arsenal aside from Dennis Bergkamp. He's so great even bring Germany to win World Cup. So sad his career ended because of absurd accusation.
1st also love the videos keep up the great work
His story hurt my heart.. he is one of my favorite players.. like favorites.. sad how people think Hopefully he will get his respect But sir ozil you are my favorite player. Best midfielder in my book Thank you for sharing your football experience to us ...its a pleasure to watch you play...
I am quite sad that he had to go through the pain. He was an outcast, but he still did pretty well.
I am german and I have to say that Özil was and is an incredible player. It is so sad that such things happened to him...
He was insane. I have seen him and Diego at Bremen. Two of the greatest Player at that time, truly magical!
Good video which I enjoyed but I wish you touched upon his career at Fenerbache and the other Turkish club more.. everyone knows about his time at Madrid, Arsenal and Germany.
Özil is an incomplete player. He was blessed with some rare talents. If he had Ronaldo's work ethic he would have been a monster
Ya many people compared him with khedira as they played together in the national team and madrid and were ethnically the same. But people never criticized khedira bc he gave 100% every game his criticism would be more of a lack of skill then anything. Basically I beleive people were harsh on ozil bc he was lazy but had all the talent and everyone hates wasted talents more then anything.
@@OutofTheMoney69 Ethnically the same? Turks and Arabs aren't the same.
@@OutofTheMoney69Khedira is Tunisian… Özil is Turkish in what way is that “ethnically” the same
@@chrisschaller9547 To most germans, people from the middle east/the muslim world with the exception of Singapore and such are all the same ethnicity
@@eggselent9814Germans are racist my friend is from Iraq and he told me he never wants to go back despite growing up there because of how badly Germans treated him
Undoubtedly talented! I love Ozil❤❤❤
10:05 Mou is such a savage!!😂😂😂
He was a very special player 😢
Özil's citizenship could only have been complicated in sight of his dual citizenship status with Turkey. There was a time the government pushed for 'either or' to avoid welfare money going straight to Turkey.
For the next video could you make a video about “Armindo Tue Nu Bangna” or Bruma cause I remember him being hyped up as a future prospect for Portugal but he just keep moving around to random team after random team
The general German public never cared about him having Turkish roots nor any of the other national team players having roots outside of Germany.
Ozil at Werder and Real Madrid was phenomenal, both for club and country. At Arsenal he was largely disgusting particularly after the first 3 years, but the Premier League hype machine would make you believe that Real Madrid had made a mistake selling him (same thing happening with Odegaard now) and that the brilliant Ozil was single-handedly carrying Germany to a World Cup title when in fact Muller, Klose, Gotze, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Lahm and Kroos were the key players that year. Real Madrid were winning title after title without him, Ozil moved to England and competed for FA Cups and 4th place medals...
It basically was mentioned in a single sentence in the video...and it was by Mourinho calling him a coward. Özil got most of his assists when the score or the game didn't matter (anymore). Big games? He was nowhere to be found. He's a prime example for putting statistics over anything else. Real getting 50m for him was a great deal for them and not for Arsenal.
Premier league is a much tougher environment to play in compared to Bundesliga or La Liga. No league compares to the Premier League in terms of challenges. In La Liga and Bundesliga, there is 2-3 teams max that are ever good and in Premier League there is at least 7 or 8 teams that all are very good, and have history of being good.
At Real I noticed Jose had a habit of taking Ozil off on the hour mark, that worried me. Then when Arsenal signed him it was like buying a cherry without having a cake to put it on. I’ll be honest I loved his ability but he was never going to work with the set up we had then, right club wrong time.
First time i saw Ozil play was with his national team before his move to Real,didn't watch Bundesliga back in the day,i fell in love with the way he played,for me he is one of the best playmakers of all time!
He was genius at Madrid with Ronaldo
📌Ozil is amazing and frustrating to watch at the same time. Sometimes he would make my jaw drop with his skill, and sometimes he would completely disappear from big games and I would forget he was on the pitch.
Klose & Podolski never cried racism because ppl where critical of them. Maybe look at Gündogans (the other guy on the photo you conveniently left out of your report) reaction after WC'18. He gave an answer on the pitch and is still well respected and the captain of the team.
True. Sadly people always ignore this fact.
03:16 By the way, all those workers who were invited to work in Germany were from South East Turkey where majority are Kurdish and unemployed as their region is forgotten by the fascist central government. Not only Ozel, but also the Altin top brothers were Kurdish too.
Before even watching the video. Ozil is my all time top 3 footballer. Seeing him at real madrid with Ronaldo was a joy to watch
What a legend
JAJAJAJAJAJA one of the photos on the fridge door sequence is not of Ozil, it is a kid named Gonzalo Galvan, from Tucuman, Argentina.
He is on my top 5 players list and was apart of my favorite team HALA MADRID!!!!
this is the best thing i have watched so far.
I was waiting this from daily dose
*i don't know what that means in Romania but in Germany a fence means you shouldn't go there* - My English teacher from Germany
He got trapped in between politics regarding Germany and Turkey. I wish he had a bit more of the character quality of Kroos/Klose/Lahm. But when he had a good day, you witnessed true greatness. His passes were so light to the touch. Incredible player. And world champion for his Vaterland, you can’t rewrite that.
My fav player of all time, even tho I know that there was very more players better than him, I will Forever love him. The happiest day in my life was when he signed for arsenal ❤️❤️
Oh Jesus he’s TRASH
Get a life!
So sad he didnt show his full skills in the german national team. I think he got what he deserved in the end.
A Sleeper baller. Career wise his work is remarkable.
One if these days I would love a video about, Luis Boa Morte. And already have the tag: "From Lourinhã to English 1league"
The way they snuck the picture at 2:52 🤫
Great video, thank you so much. Also it is true that unfortunately we still have a lot of systematic discrimination and racism in Germany and Özil definitely had to suffer from this, it is NOT true that he got his German passport so late because Germany wanted to benefit from his talent. Everyone born in Germany automatically is granted the German citizenship. No questions asked. But it is up to the person to accept it and to go to the authorities to pick up the passport. The fact that he did not do it before just proves that he and his family never tried to integrate and never considered themselves German. Which was one big reason why he was never loved from the majority of Germans despite his great skills.
I think that's true, in a way. For a third generation immigrant his way of speaking German was not exactly up to par. He still speaks German with a Turkish accent, I sometimes wonder whether he speaks Turkish with a German accent as well.
@@LoveToHearUSing to me he seems to have a slight german accent, accompanied with a very rural way of speaking that you see in a lot of turkish immigrants.
I have tromendous respect for you Mesuit Ozil by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Man i loved to see ozil play
He was so good I’ve only watched a couple montages of ozil and I was amazed and I’m 11
Depends on Perspective, personally one of the best footballers of new millennium generation
That rap song was uncalled for
2:51 That kid on the fridge is not him. LOL
2:50 I don't think that anyone said it, but the kid in the 3rd picture is an argentinian meme, not Ozil 😂
idc who hates him,i love this person
Something you forgot to mention is that he also presented his jersey from the German national team to Erdogan before the 2018 worldcup. That pretty much counterdicts his claim of meeting Erdogan randomly as you don't have your merchandise ready when you meet people randomly. Also he did tat without the concent of DFB who likely wouldn't have agreed to that and without even informing them. All that fuzz shifted focus away from performing at the world cup more towards political drama and created a rift between him and the team as well as the DFB.
He also called Erdogan his president.
Turkey is a better country than Germany and Erdogan is a great president. German football fandom is plagued with racism.
@@ivanvidovic5995 and thats what why we, the Germans, fucked him for....rightfully... dont pretend to be German
@@ivanvidovic5995 that was gündogan but he talked to the media and it was quickly over
These types always play the victim
i first saw ozil in 2010 World cup playing for Germany. it was the first game i saw and i knew he was special. later on he joins my Favorite club, Arsenal. God bless him.
'Arsenal decided they could only keep one of Sanchez and Ozil' that's simply not true, they tried to keep them both but Sanchez decided he wanted to leave, and with 6 months left on his contract they had no choice but to accept Man Utd's offer of a swap with Mhki. At that point having failed to keep Alexis they knew it would have been a disaster to allow Ozil to leave aswel, for free no less, so they gave him what he wanted
Arsenal fans chanted "He's better than Zidane"?? No wonder they didn't win anything apart from FA cups in those years 🤣🤣🤣🤣
this felt rushed could’ve been better but thanks for the video ❤
He took a picture with Erdoğan and was happy about it.
Pizarro, Diego and Özil, what a great time it was for us Werder fans...
Please do a video of Marcelo viera please!!!!
As a Turk I have to add in a couple of things. When it was time for the 2010 WC Özil stated that he was a German and he would play for Germany when asked about his Turkish heritage, which is understandable after all he was born and raised there. What makes me angry is that when he got flak for the Uygur Turks stuff he then decided he was Turkish and started to appeal to us and then came to Turkey to essentially become another one of Erdoğan's lap dogs.
Another Kemalist dog comment
He has an IQ of 80, what can you expect, there are so many lap dogs out there
For me he is an opportunist. He played for Germany because they were better. He appases Turkey because they/Erdogan likes him. He takes what he gets, he doesnt care about turkey/turks or germany/germans.
No matter what he was he is my inspiration as a footballer❤️💯
As a Barca fan, Ozil used to terrify me.
Hated by many but loved by God. For example, Özil donated his prize money of $329,000 after winning the World Cup in 2014. He donated to the Big Shoe project and financed vital surgeries for 23 children in Brazil. Additionally, Özil and his wife donated to 16 refugee camps in Turkey and Syria after their wedding. Their contribution provided food to about 100,000 people. Furthermore, the couple funded important surgeries for about 1,000 children around the world. This is what Özil done. Great person, always I enjoy seeing him playing soccer.
2:54 dude really put up the meme kid as Ozil, lol.
Daily Dose Of Football you should get a award for your voice narrating
Ozil almost was one of the greatest , but unfortunately all good things come to an end . Germany lost a legendary player and football an unfurnished talent .
He wasn't wrong when he said "In their eyes I am german when we win and an immigrant if we lose" considering I know someone who was in the Bundeswehr (german military) when they lost that match against south korea, he got spit on by fellow germans because of that .... he's vietnamese but in that moment they didn't care it seems. BUT Özil still kinda ruined his career himself for the most part by adressing things that may be for the right cause but you also can't say as an active player without hurting your career, Gündogan equally was targeted and bounced back from all this perfectly fine, so the fact özil always tried to blame others made a lot of people dislike him, everything he said felt like an excuse just to back it up with more controversy. It's a pity really, he's been on my list to become an all time great in germany when he played at real madrid.
He didnt even sing the german anthem, and had consistend ties whit Dogan and Turkey. Clearly he never felt and acted german. He didnt acted german when he won, but whanted to be seen as one when he lost.
He wanted benefits of being German but pride of being Turkish, definitely enough to anger fans.
He went woke frankly. Too many excuses.
@@thegooner1102 woke ? Özil never act woke at all
@@stefankatsarov5806 it wasn't just özil who didn't sing the anthem, Khedira, Podolski and Boateng didn't sing it either at all times iirc and tbh there is nothing wrong to respect your ancestory but what him and gündogan did was outright wrong as an active national player. also idk how one does act german over a win, he did make valid points that there was and probably still is a big racial debate including tons of hypocrisy that's still floating around in the DFB but he didn't really care until he was targeted, meanwhile gündogan understood what was so wrong about it and proceeded with his career normally. It's not that özil isn't as german as any other player in the national team regardless of their ancestry it's just that he's a big baby and unprofessional
I really enjoy your videos but I had to chuckle at 4:45 : The city is called "Hamburg", not "Hamburger" (although that name derives from the city´s name). ;)
he should've respected germany more. if it wasn't for germany he would've spent his life selling icecream for tourists in turkey
Özil had already been in critique beforehand because he refused to sing the German anthem before international matches. Which was upsetting because it was sending the message of not being willing to integrate in and associate with the country that provided a home for his family for three generations. When he posed openly with the Turkish president during a time of heated international relations, that just fueled the perception that his allegiance is not with Germany but with Turkey. If you're trying to blame it on racism or xenophobia then you can only be trying to sell a narrative. If anything, he segregrated himself, not the other way around. Which is his free choice, but he must be ready to receive criticism for it. And criticism is just that. Criticism. It's not cruelty.
He also never said anyting bad about Dogans policies or Turkeys treatment of the Kurds and yet spoke about China. It was aways clear he himself was biased for one or another group and had doble standarts for sertan things. Using his own words a bit, he never acted german when he won, but wanted to be seen as one when he lost.
Exactly, too much false narrative
@@stefankatsarov5806 the whole Uygur thing is also just barking uop the wrong tree, because the West for the most part acknowledges the Uyghur genocide in China, whereas the muslim world is still in denial over it to not anger the CCP. Especially his friend Erdogan who has repeatedly handed over wanted Uyghur refugees back to China from where they fled from.
As an immigrant, I fully agree, Ozil is the type that makes immigrants look bad. I'm glad the Germans didn't tolerate his nonsense
he was put beetween both nations, with never finding a full homecountry, we the germans never welcomed him as one of us, the turks did so he opened up towards them
On the field Özil was one of the best and smartest players in the world. When you are born in Germany you get the same citizenship as your parents. If one them is German you can get a German passport. But Germany doesn't allow dual citizenship, so you have to decide. When you live for more than 10 years in Germany you can decide, if you want to become German, but until you are 18 years old, your parents have have to support that decision. In 2018 Özil not just posed with Erdogan for a photo, he also gave him jersey wiith the dedication "for my beloved president", which lead to the discussion, if a German national player should call the porseident of another country his prseident, especially if that president is a dictator like Erdogan. Even before that event Özil had bought a house in Turkey and called Erdogan a freind. Because Germany has a big Turkish community, this can be seen as a poltical statement. The photo lead to critisism to the nomination for the tournament in 2018. Gündogan made a public apology for the photo, but Özil didn't. Nevertheless both nominations were publicaly critizised before the tournament. But afther the tournament the DFB officials put all the blame on Özil for the poor performance of the German squad. But Özil was still one of the best German plyers in that tournament. The DFB handled the whole situation poorly and DFB prsident Reinhard Grindel had to leave his job some month later, because of his poor handlingof the situation. In his first two years at Werder Bremen Özil was more a backup player for Diego. He was a starter in the Europ Cup final, because Diego wasn't allowed to play because of a yellow card ban. But in the following season Diego left and Özil beacame the key player.
I think you need to re check your Arsenal facts. If Arsenal won the league in the 03-04 season and finished 2nd the year after, how is finishing 2nd in 15/16 a 17 year gap? The club has been underachieving for a long while but there is no need to exaggerate
It would never happen if he Decides to play for turkey. He never felt german.
He wouldn't have been that great or a WC winner if he played for Turkey 🤷♂️
What a player ozil was it’s just a shame the the of the arsenal team couldn’t help him win the premier league 4 fa cups legend though still
Ødegaard is more of a legend than ozil
@@jakecortez4795 not yet he ant
@@gunnersTV81 Yes he is lol Ozil was literally trash
@@jakecortez4795 what a daft comment, you are clearly 9 and have never watched him play.
@@Infimet 💀🤣 stats don’t lie buddy
Ozil represents pure football talent.. what a player!
I was an Özil fan back in his Werder Bremen time. The problem with him was, that he didnt have mentality. If the team was leading and playing good, he was Top WorldClass. If the team was bad or behind, he was even worse.
Sounds like his saying.. "when we win, I am german, but when we lose, i am an immigrant"
@@muhammadyousef7965It´s called a selfullfilling prophecy.
Özil isnt hated in germany, hes like an icon for us, surely one of the best german playmakers of all time!
Some people will say racism in German Football and Germany in general happened and his speaking out against it, others will point at his bad attitude as a reason why, because as far as i could tell, the bad end to his Arsenal career was 100% down to himself. I honestly think its a mixture of multiple reasons, he has a chip on his shoulders, bit of an ego and not an easy fella to get along with, you couple that with him speaking out against a sensitive topic in Germany and you end up with a player most just wanna forget. As an Arsenal supporter, i have mixed feelings about him, he was great at first but then turned into a huge liability and contributed towards Wengers downfall.
it just felt like he was a bit inappreciative of where he grew up
True @@equilibriajorvingia9705