{"id":78739,"date":"2018-07-23T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/ozil-quits-german-team-over-alleged-racism-disrespect\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:52:16","slug":"ozil-quits-german-team-over-alleged-racism-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/ozil-quits-german-team-over-alleged-racism-disrespect\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozil quits German team over alleged racism, disrespect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/July\/23\/ozil.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Arsenal midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has announced sudden retirement from international football over alleged &quot;racism and disrespect&quot; he has faced in Germany over his Turkish roots.<\/p>\n<p>In viral tweets, he stated to have received hate mail and threats and was being blamed for Germany&#39;s disappointing World Cup. &quot;I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,&quot; Ozil said. According to the BBC, the third-generation Turkish-German was born in Gelsenkirchen and was a key member of his country&#39;s 2014 World Cup-winning side.<\/p>\n<p>He has 92 caps and has been voted the national team&#39;s player of the year five times since 2011 by fans.<\/p>\n<p>However, the team failed to get beyond the group stages of the recent World Cup in Russia, despite being one of the favorites. Ozil said his recent treatment made him &quot;no longer want to wear the German national team shirt&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement posted on social media, he said he did not feel accepted in German society despite paying taxes, donating to good causes there, and being a World Cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began when Ozil met Turkish president, RecepTayyip Erdogan in May along with fellow Germany international Ilkay Gundogan, the Manchester City player who is also of Turkish descent.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Arsenal midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has announced sudden retirement from international football over alleged &#8220;racism and disrespect&#8221; he has faced in Germany over his Turkish roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}