Mesut Ozil wasn’t called up by national team manager Hansi Flick for this World Cup, but he will be in Qatar this week. The former Germany and Arsenal midfielder — a 2014 World Cup winner ...

Mesut Ozil's father has insisted his son would still be playing football for Germany had he been more protected by his advisors off the pitch. The former Arsenal star, who has repeatedly hit the ...

Germany's Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from international football Sunday at the age of 29, citing racism and lashing out at the president of the German football federation. The Arsenal ...

Veteran midfielder Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from the German national team on Sunday, and he did his best to shake the very foundation of the country’s soccer federation in the process.

Mesut Ozil, a German soccer player who came under criticism for posing for a photo with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Sunday he was quitting the national team because of racism he ...

It did not even take 24 hours. On Sunday afternoon, Mesut Ozil retired from the German national team via a damning letter that accused Germany’s soccer federation, the DFB, of “racism and ...

“I am German when we win, an immigrant when we lose” says Ozil of his choice. BERLIN -- German soccer player Mesut Ozil announced his decision to quit the national team in the aftermath of a ...

Gunners' playmaker hailed as "probably the most intelligent player I've ever played with — probably the most intelligent ...

The most notable of these was Mesut Ozil—Arsenal's most expensive transfer ever and undoubtedly the attacking linchpin of this side—who once again drifted through another match for Germany as ...

And yet after almost two weeks of reflection, the German soccer federation (DFB) appears to have decided midfielder Mesut Ozil is the main culprit for the team's shock early World Cup exit.

Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil has effectively closed the door on international football, citing criticism from the media and the German football federation president that struck him as racist. In ...