Love Özil! Incredibly generous dude (and great footballer); we need more people like him.
Yes this. Giving pocket change (for him) to charity is nothing compared to his support for a dictator.Nice gesture till you learn who is the best man of the wedding
So fuck Ozil. Kanye rightly gets criticised for hanging around Trump. Same should be happening to Ozil.
Kind of torn on Özil because the way he was singled-out as a scapegoat for Germany's world cup loss by many people really sucked... a lot of racists just used the 'he supports Erdogan' excuse to complain about immigrants on the national team
That said Özil's support of Erdogan is really shitty, too. Can't just buddy up with a corrupt, authoritarian dictator who just ignores elction results that don't suit him and act like it's no big deal
he does get a lot of shit for that.Nice gesture till you learn who is the best man of the wedding
So fuck Ozil. Kanye rightly gets criticised for hanging around Trump. Same should be happening to Ozil.
for donating money to people in need? kudos to him. better than soccer players buying expensive cars, golden steaks etc. to show up or worse raping women and covering it up.Not in this thread. Did you see like the first 20 posts. He was described as a wonderful human being and we need more people like him in the world.
for donating money to people in need? kudos to him. better than soccer players buying expensive cars, golden steaks etc. to show up or worse raping women and covering it up.
no but he donated money to a good cause and thats what the story is about. so far i did not see a story where özil raped someone and donated money to cover it up unless you are implying that his newly wed wife was forced to marry him.So now you know what car Ozil drives and what steak he eats. Maybe you should google his car collection and you'd see it fits in with every other football player. Pretty sure he's probably been to that salt guys restaurant considering his Turkish roots. Probably just not stupid like Ribery to record himself eating that steak.
Ronaldo donates to people in need, shall we cover his actions up too? So does Neymar. In fact probably most of the top football players do some charitable work but I'm sure not all of them hang around with dictators.
Now Juan Mata there's a true class guy.
no but he donated money to a good cause and thats what the story is about. so far i did not see a story where özil raped someone and donated money to cover it up unless you are implying that his newly wed wife was forced to marry him.
Other people being worse doesn't make you good. Noone is defending Neymar and Ronaldo.no but he donated money to a good cause and thats what the story is about. so far i did not see a story where özil raped someone and donated money to cover it up unless you are implying that his newly wed wife was forced to marry him.
You can do good and bad things. I know it's crazy.I'm sure the children having their lives saved through his money couldn't give a toss who was at his wedding.
Being friends with a horrible dictator and donating money. Make up your mind man, do you want to be evil or good? You can't be both.
Being friends with a horrible dictator and donating money. Make up your mind man, do you want to be evil or good? You can't be both.
i agree that erdogan is a horrible politician that is opressing his people and the free press. i also think that soccer players that are not subjected to such opression should not support erdogan. still i dont think that donating money to charity should be criticized and view as a cover up maneuver. i mean he is openly supporting erdogan. its his belief. its a shitty belief for sure but he is not covering up anything.What are you going on about man?
See the story above he had a fascist dictator as his best man and you see no problem with that? Ok.
Why do you keep going on about rape and shit? Where the hell did I imply about the last thing you said? Are you feeling ok? So now suddenly I'm implying that Ozil forced his wife to arrange marriage when I am questioning why the hell did he have a facist dictator as his best man. Seriously what kind of logic are you using to get to that logic.
I don't think people are criticizing Özil for giving to charity. I think the point is that he is still a shitty person for supporting Erdogan and that charity support does not change that.i agree that erdogan is a horrible politician that is opressing his people and the free press. i also think that soccer players that are not subjected to such opression should not support erdogan. still i dont think that donating money to charity should be criticized and view as a cover up maneuver. i mean he is openly supporting erdogan. its his belief. its a shitty belief for sure but he is not covering up anything.
I'm not so sure about that.Obvious PR attempt is obvious.
That said this is still a net positive.