Julien Laurens reacts to Mesut Ozil's decision to retire from international football for Germany due to a feeling of "racism and disrespect." Mesut Ozil's withdrawal from the German national team Sunday night came in three stages, just as the former World Cup holders' premature exit in Russia had done. But parts of his statement contained accusations so explosive that the controversy will certainly not stop there. German FA President Reinhard Grindel -- who, Ozil alleges, had made him "a scapegoat for his incompetence and inability to do his job properly," "disrespected [the player's] Turkish roots" and "selfishly turned [him] into political...from ESPN FC News https://ift.tt/2JKRe3D
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