The name Mesut Ozil was actually the one who joined the trend when the German national team lost to the Japanese national team in the 2022 World Cup group phase.
According to Tribunnews' monitoring, Ozil is still in the ranks of Twitter's social media trends until Thursday (24/11/2022).
More than 49 thousand tweets voiced the name of the former German national team player.
So what's the reason?
If we pull it back, Germany's relationship with Mesut Ozil has never been beautiful.
In 2018, Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from the German national team.
In his long statement, Mesut Ozil underlined several things.
The most important is racism.
Starting from the German media highlighting a photo of him with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The close portrait of Mesut Ozil and the President of Turkey can be seen at the wedding of the former German national team player.
Even Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was seen as Ozil's companion at that time.
Many media corner Ozil's closeness to the President of Turkey as a form of politics.
Ozil also felt that he would become a German national team player when he brought Germany to win the World Cup in 2014.
However, fans considered him a stranger when the German national team did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
What disappointed Ozil at that time was that the players remained silent about the racism he had experienced.
Quoted from kesbang.tanjabtimkab.go.id, racism is a belief system or doctrine which states that biological differences inherent in the human race determine cultural or individual achievements.
That a certain race is superior and has the right to rule over other races.
When Ozil received this treatment, no one defended Ozil.
He admits that he has never regretted leaving the German national team.
Now, the German national team started the 2022 World Cup by keeping their mouths shut during a photo session.
Reportedly, if this action is a form of protest against the Qatar World Cup rules.
The German national team protested against the organizers who did not allow their captain to wear the rainbow captain's armband.
"We want to use our captain's armband to maintain the values that we have held in the German National Team," Tribunnews quoted from the Instagram account @dfb_team.
"That is regarding diversity and mutual respect, we want our voices to be heard, this is not a political statement but human rights being negotiated,"
"Prohibiting us from wearing the captain's armband (One Love) is like silencing us," he wrote.
Of course this is like the opposite when racism was experienced by Ozil several years ago.
The German national team shut their mouths about the ban on all forms of LGBT+ but also kept their mouths shut when Ozil encountered racism.
Fans also think that the German national team is too focused on the captain's armband protest at the Qatar World Cup.
However, this was denied by the coach of the German national team, Hansi Flick.
Flick denied that the German national team's game was broken up because of a protest against FIFA rules.
"No. We will not use any excuses. It's a trivial thing that has nothing to do with the players losing focus," said Flick, quoted by Fox Sports.
"We did appear inefficient and in the end had to make some mistakes," he continued.
It is known, the Japanese national team won full points over the Japanese national team with a score of 1-2.
The German national team scored first through Ilkay Gundogan's penalty. This 1-0 advantage lasted until the first half broke up. (Tribunnews.com/Siti N)
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