Mesut Özil

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Mesut Özil
Personal information
Full name	Mesut Özil
Date of birth	October 15, 1988 (1988-10-15) (age 19)
Place of birth	Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	SV Werder Bremen
Number	11
Youth clubs
1995–1998 1998–1999 1999–2000 2000–2005	DJK Westfalia 04 Gelsenkirchen DJK Teutonia Schalke-Nord DJK Falke Gelsenkirchen Rot-Weiss Essen
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2006–2008 2008–	FC Schalke 04 SV Werder Bremen	30 (0) 012 (1)
National team2
2007–	Germany U-21	06 (4)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 May 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 25 March 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Mesut Özil (born October 15, 1988) is a young German footballer of Turkish decent who is currently playing for SV Werder Bremen. He is a midfielder and wears 11 as his squad number. He has been called up to the German U21 National Team after starting as playmaker and central attacking midfielder in the place of the suspended Lincoln in Ligapokal matches against Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich for Schalke 04.^[1]

Mesut has declared that he is a Fenerbahçe fan and that he might play for Fenerbahçe SK one day. ^[2]

On January 31, 2008 he moved to SV Werder Bremen.

[edit] External links

• Career statistics at fussballdaten.de (German)

[edit] References

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