The most creative/best players are always the ones to get called out when the team doesn't perform, the most. Happens in all team sports at international level, because you ain't representing a portion of fans you're representing the country, millions of people. Now given some fans will still have loyalties to their local area and if a player's born or played for a rival, they're going to get shyt regardless. Just the tribal instinct of people to hate.
Riquelme
Rai (More of the case he wasn't his brother)
Hoddle
Zidane (Euro 96)
Gullit (Walked out in 94)
Effenberg
Shearer
Rooney
Del Piero
Totti
Raul
All got various amounts of shyt from fans and the media for not "performing" for their country at various stages in their career. Fans/Media don't care about tactics or if a player isn't being played in the right position, it's about winning and players playing with effort/passion, that what fans at international level want.
Unfortunately when things don't go well, stupid people will fall back on the stereotypes of someone's background to discredit them, regardless of it being race, creed, or where they're from within the country. Everywhere in the world does it.
That's cool and all but that's a crock of shyt. Most of those players sans Zidane and Gullit are the same racially as their critics.
It is impossible to deny the racial factor in this, what makes this even more damning however is the fact that Germany has spent the past decade, in both football and their society, as a paragon of immigrant integration. Europe's version of America's "shining city on a hill". That theory has been blown apart by ONE footballer. And again Ozil is already polarizing, but I've yet to see the same type of criticisms for other player who ALSO choked on the world's stage Spain was beaten by fukking RUSSIA....RUSSIA! and even their goal was an own goal. You don't see Sergio Ramos being torn to shreds online.
My point here is that Ozil, especially since his move to Arsenal, makes peoples panties get all ruffled when he is FAR from the first talented player to perform the way he does. Don't blame people being "fans" for clear and overt racism/ignorance. It falls to people who actually watch the sport to go "Well no, actually he played pretty decent when the rest of the team didn't support him."
Not saying Ozil is on this level, but its like Lebron haters....you can not like him as a player but you can't deny his talent...and doing so lets me know you are just a fukking hater and not a fan of the game at the highest level. And now, because of this vocal cesspool of "fans", Germany basically loses their most creative player in a generation...There's no way that should be made sense of or made logical.


How is this tweet still up?

while most dudes in their 20's are
