Özil resignation: Now you have to go President DFB Grindel

Mesut Özil feels abandoned by the DFB and runs away from the German national team. The defender must also return to Reinhard Grindel, the boss of the DFB. Because with his devastating treatment of the case, Grindel thwarted one of the most important functions of the Association: Integration.

In all Mesut Özil is certainly not fair. The declaration of his meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves more open questions than he specifies

The office (president of the country of his parents) and the person (autocrat Erdogan) are well separated contrary to the presentation of Özil. For example, the protests of NFL and NBA players against US President Donald Trump show it and how it works.

Özil can be accused of lacking self-criticism. As well as it only now, too late, explained. But one thing is clear: DFB President Reinhard Grindel is no longer tenable after this unprecedented affair.

In the end, it is not so much the timing as the provocative attitude of the first two parts of Özil's payroll.

A devastating message in troubled times

There Özil writes: "In the eyes of Grindel and his helpers I am German, if we win, but an immigrant, if we lose." The consequence: "I will no longer play for Germany at the international level, as long as I feel racially hostile and I will not be respected."

A deserved German international resigns because he feels hostile racially. In 2018. In addition, the national player, who has been celebrated as no other as a great example of successful integration, including with a Bambi. A devastating message in these troubled times.

Because many young migrants feel like Özil. Insufficiently accepted in German society, treated unfairly.

For many years, the DFB has focused on integrating into its glossy brochures. "For integration, against racism and xenophobia" is the melodious motto.

And the DFB with its seven million members also plays a key role. More and more young people from immigration are organized in sports clubs, better integrated into society.

Grindel-Rücktritt only logical consequence

But all melodious slogans are slogans, if we consider the approach of the head of the Grindel Federation. 19659006] Hiding before the World Cup, hope that the problem will be solved with one, two meetings organized. After the World Cup jump on the first train of populism and make Özil indirectly responsible for the disaster of the World Cup sports. Use it to free the fair game instead of facing racial slurs.

A pitiful treatment and crisis management, because they could not be amateurs

The only logical consequence can only be the resignation of Grindels. The long-time treasurer, who in 2016 in the chaos of the World Cup affair to predecessor Wolfgang Niersbach with the votes of the mighty amateur camp elected the president failed in one of the worst crises of the DFB on the whole line

Already as a member of the CDU in the Bundestag. All of the DFB's efforts for an open society and its credibility, it has now countered with its actions now. The effects beyond the dressing are not yet predictable.

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