Mesut Özil Archives: 06/2018

In this latest World Cup roundup, Anita turns her attention to the games that took place on Wednesday. Mexico v Sween, South Korea v Germany (Mesut Ozil), Serbia v Brazil and Switzerland (Granit Xhaka, Stephan Lichtsteiner) v Costa Rica (Joel Campbell) all feature. Anita also previews Thursday’s matches which feature Japan v Poland, Senegal v Colombia (David Ospina), England (Danny Welbeck) v Belgium and Panama v Tunisia.

Mesut Ozil was pictured clashing with angry German fans after his country was knocked out of the World Cup at the group stage for the first time in their history.

Joachim Low has revealed he received a ‘great reaction’ from Mesut Ozil after the German was dropped for their group game against Sweden.

Mesut Özil will request the number 10 shirt at Arsenal this summer, as a result of Jack Wilshere’s departure from the club, according to reports.

Granit Xhaka, Mesut Ozil, and Petr Cech have all joined forces with Freedom from Torture’s campaign to mark Refugee Week that runs until 24th June.

Germany made a losing start to the World Cup, falling 1-0 to Mexico, and surprise, surprise – guess who was in the firing line? That’s right; our own Mesut Ozil seems to be the fall guy again.

The out-of-proportion media criticism of Mesut Özil is continuing in Germany, ahead of the country’s second World Cup match against Sweden.

Lothar Matthaus has hit out at Mesut Ozil claiming that it looks like he doesn’t want to play for Germany.

Turkish sports minister, Osman Bak, has hit out at the way Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan have been treated since they met with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On Tuesday afternoon the first round of World Cup matches drew to a close, so let’s take a look at how the Arsenal players are getting on at the tournament so far.

In this third podcast of our summer World Cup series, Anita recaps day four of the action which featured Costa Rica (Joel Campbell) v Serbia, Germany (Mesut Ozil) v Mexico (Carlos Vela), and Brazil v Switzerland (Granit Xhaka and Stephan Lichtsteiner).

German national team manager Joachim Low revealed that Mesut Ozil has undertaken a number of extra training sessions in order to be fully fit for their opening World Cup game on Sunday against Mexico.

Mesut Özil is back in full training with Germany, just in time for his country’s opening game against Mexico on Sunday.

Speaking in a Q&A with fans, Henrikh Mkhitaryan named his favourites to win the World Cup this summer, but left out two major contenders for the competition.

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has called for the press and public to ‘show more understanding’ over Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan’s meeting with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Mesut Özil will miss Germany’s final pre-World Cup friendly with injury, and faces a race against time to get fit for the actual tournament in Russia later this month.