Mesut Özil

Mesut Ozil is a real jewel of German football. The athlete with Turkish roots quickly reached heights in his career thanks to the talent and help of his father, who early discerned bright abilities in the heir. Mesut, entering the Premier League, quickly proved his superiority in creating chances and assists.

Mesut was born in 1988 into a family of Turkish immigrants. Parents went to look for a better life in Germany, where they settled in the town of Gelsenkirchen. The country was in an industrial crisis, 70% of migrants were unemployed, and they paid pennies for hard work.

The Ozila family lived in poverty, barely making ends meet. Mesut recalls that her mother had to work as a cleaner in two places, so the children hardly saw her. The family settled in an old apartment building. The boy was embarrassed by the squalid home and at school he called another house number for the bus driver.

Mesut took a great interest in football from early childhood, playing the ball all day long with the kids living in the neighborhood. The boys chose the great football player Zinedine Zidane as their idol and tried to learn his technique. The father noticed his son's passion for playing on the grass and, when the child was 6 years old, took him to a sports school, which later the future football star replaced many.

The fact is that dad Mustafa Ozil was confident in the talent of the heir, therefore, with any suspicion of the coach's unprofessionalism, he changed the school. Mesut managed to play in Westphalia 04, Teutonia Schalke-Nord, Falke, and in 2000 he got his first contract with Rot-Weiss Essen.

It was then that the modest youth team managed to get into the second German division. Football professionals noticed the Turk's bright play, showered with proposals. The representatives of the Schalke 04 club, of which Ozil became a member, showed great persistence, starting his professional career.

At the age of 17, Mesut Ozil had already played in the League Cup in the main squad of Schalke, which was proud of the strongest players. The newcomer did not disappoint, he managed to replace the midfielder Cassio de Souza Soares, known under the pseudonym Lincoln. Mesut surprised by his ability to work - in two seasons he managed to play 37 matches. Schalke's management hoped that the talented athlete would be the heart of the team, but in 2008 he refused to sign a contract. The Turk was not tempted to increase his salary to € 1 million per year, so the club announced that it was quietly saying goodbye to him.

Among the contenders for the footballer's services were renowned clubs, even the English Arsenal wanted to get Mesut. During this period, the young man faced a difficult choice - he was offered to play under the flag of his historical homeland. But he refused, accepting German citizenship, which caused a storm of negative emotions from his compatriots.

In the end, the young man in the role of a midfielder joined the ranks of the leader of German football - Bremen's Werder Bremen, who laid out € 4.3 million for the contract. He showed his abilities brilliantly, he was especially remembered for the matches against Bayern, which lost with a score of 2: 5, and Hoffenchseim, one goal behind Werder Bremen.

Mesut Ozil managed to quickly become the leader of the team. 2009 was a happy year for the “Bremen”: the club took third place in the Champions League, got to the games for the UEFA Cup (though lost), took the German Cup. The next season was not so successful, but Ozil was included in the list of two dozen players who were honored to defend Germany at the World Cup.

In 2010, Mesut changed club. At the end of August, the football player was bought by Real Madrid, and in the fall he already scored the first goal in its composition. That season, the Özil team were able to solidify their leadership in the sports arena by winning the Spanish Cup. Later, the German midfielder made a huge contribution to the championship of Real Madrid - thanks to his goals, the club won the Spanish Super Cup twice in very difficult matches.

The next breakthrough in football biography was the admission to the legendary English Arsenal. Mesut Ozil cost the club dearly - € 45 million, the footballer was called at that time the most expensive transfer in the history of playing on grass. However, the German athlete did not live up to his hopes in the first season. Although the team took another trophy in the form of the FA Cup, Mesut did not shine with performance.

The following year, the footballer scored the winning goal against Liverpool, thus securing another English Cup for the team. Before that, Ozil had been on vacation for a long time due to an injury, but in a short period he managed to get in good shape. This helped in the next season to beat the champion Chelsea, snatching the English Super Cup. By the end of 2016, the Turk bore the title of the best assistant in the Premier League and player of Arsenal.

Mesut Ozil also played for the German national team. At the 2010 World Cup, the footballer's merits were noted with a nomination for the Golden Ball. Mesut helped the team to take third place at the 2012 European Championship, take gold at the World Cup, which was held in Brazil two years later, and at the 2016 European Championship, the national team, although they did not manage to return home with a victory, but the football player was named the best player in one of the meetings ...

The German footballer is not deprived of the attention of the beautiful half of humanity. The press discussed a long romance with model Anna-Maria Lagerblom, the sister of singer Sarah Connor. The girl, even for the sake of her beloved, converted to Islam and sacrificed her profession, ceasing to act in candid photo shoots, but she did not become a wife.

The football player's tender feelings were associated with the German beauty-vocalist Mandy Grace Capristo, with the top models Claudia Galanti and Aida Jespika.

In the summer of 2017, they started talking about Mesut's serious romance with Miss Turkey 2014, model and actress Amine Gulshe. Rumors have spread that the football player is finally going to say goodbye to his bachelor life, but the couple has not yet confirmed his intention.

The athlete does not differ in impressive dimensions, with a height of 183 cm, Ozil weighs only 76 kg. The football player is known as a man with a calm disposition, modest and stingy in words. Mesut is very religious - he prays before each step on the field. In addition to football, the list of the young man's hobbies includes swimming and ping-pong, he loves to sing and masterfully performs hip-hop.

At the end of 2017, Ozil surprised fans and football representatives with exorbitant appetites. The man said that the contract with Arsenal will be extended only if the club can pay € 395 thousand per week - an astronomical amount for members of the Premier League. Mesut was immediately accused of blackmail and even fraud, and British experts did not see a tragedy for the club in the athlete's possible departure.

However, at the beginning of 2018, the news spread around the world that the Turks were staying at Arsenal, the contract was extended for three years, and the player would be paid € 340,000 for seven days. Thus, Mesut Ozil became the highest paid player in the London club.

In early April, Arsenal fans were jubilant - in the Europa League, the team won victoriously against CSKA Moscow. Mesut scored three assists.

2008/09 - German Cup 2010/11 - Spanish Cup 2012 - Spanish Super Cup 2010 - bronze at the World Cup 2009 - European Youth Champion 2012 - bronze at the European Championship 2014 - gold at the World Cup 2014, 2015, 2017 - FA Cup 2014 , 2015, 2017 - FA Super Cup

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Mesut Özil Net Worth 2021

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