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Mesut Ozil joins Erdogan's AKP after retiring from football

Listen to article Former Germany, Real Madrid and Arsenal star Mesut Ozil, who retired in 2023, was elected on Sunday to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the party announced. The German-born 2014 World Cup winner became a member of the AKP’s central council at a congress in Ankara where Erdogan was re-elected for the ninth time as…

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UX Careers: Measuring Growth

How do you recommend UX practitioners measure their own growth and progress?

I've developed a skill map based on Jason Mesut's “Shaping Designers & Design Teams” series of exercises and writings, as well as NN/g’s template. It's a tool I've been employing in discussions about professional development and career progression with the designers I manage, as well as during the hiring process. It can be used to match mentors with mentees. Individual maps can be combined into team maps that visualize the strengths and gaps of a team, suggesting what skills you might want to hire for or cross-train from another team.

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EPL: Man Utd to terminate Sancho’s contract

Manchester United may terminate Jadon Sancho’s contract, according to Sky Sports. This could happen as a result of a new strategy on culture and recruitment under incoming minority owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe’s INEOS group will emphasise the development of a more positive working culture and adopt a more ruthless approach to finding exit routes for players who fail to fit with the club’s ethos. United would rather terminate contracts of such players than hold out to extract transfer value. United have struggled in this area recently, with Sancho’s exile coming months after the protracted handling of the Mason Greenwood case. INEOS and Ratcliffe are big admirers of how Arsenal have turned around their sporting culture by cancelling the contracts of Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nicolas Pepe in recent seasons. Read the full article

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Mesut Ozil tells Arda Guler to reject Barcelona move until 2024

Mesut Ozil tells Arda Guler to reject Barcelona move until 2024 Mesut Ozil, the former Real Madrid player, has commented on Barcelona's potential signing of Arda Guler.  Barcelona has been actively pursuing a deal to acquire the promising Turkish talent before the start of the 2023/24 season, surpassing Real Madrid in the competition for his services.  According to the latest reports, Deco has traveled to Istanbul to finalize the specifics of a deal with Fenerbahce in order to activate Guler's release clause of 17.5 million.  Barcelona maintains a strong belief that they will successfully complete the deal in the next few days, despite continued interest from Madrid and other European clubs. Despite the interest from Barcelona and the progress made in the negotiations, Arda Guler's former Fenerbahce teammate, Ozil, has advised him against making a significant move at this point in his career, as he believes Guler should continue his development in Turkey.  According to reports from Mundo Deportivo, Ozil personally contacted the young midfielder and encouraged him to stay in Turkey for another year before considering his options.  The final decision on whether Guler will move to Spain is expected to be made by July 4. Mesut Ozil tells Arda Guler to reject Barcelona move until 2024 Read the full article

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Calacus Weekly Hit & Miss – Jen Beattie & Antoine Griezmann

Every Monday we look at the best and worst communicators in the sports world from the previous week.

HIT – JEN BEATTIE

Everyone in football was shocked to hear that Scotland and Arsenal defender Jen Beattie has been receiving treatment for breast cancer.

Beattie was diagnosed in October but has continued to play for her club and country and says the support of her teammates has been crucial while she’s unable to be with family due to coronavirus restrictions.

The 29-year-old says her aim now is to raise awareness of having breast cancer at a young age and encourage women to get checked.

"I know people are maybe scared to go to the hospital and scared to get checked out because of COVID, but there are still ways to do it," Beattie said in an interview with BBC’s Football Focus.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55250450

"I have friends who work in the NHS and they've said diagnoses have gone down massively for cancer this year, and that scares me so much, knowing that people are sitting at home and can maybe feel things but are too scared to go in.

"Whether you're 29 or 79, it doesn't really matter and you might have to deal with it at some point.

"Even if it is still a horrible process to go through, it can be a much better ending if you just go and get checked."

Arsenal and Manchester City players showed their support for Beattie by wearing shirts with her name on ahead of their crucial Women’s Super League clash.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/jen-beattie-breast-cancer-arsenal-man-city-shirts-support-b290279.html

Beattie’s club twitter account commented ‘You’re an inspiration to all of us’ and the outpouring of well wishes has underlined how football can come together and unite in difficult times.

https://twitter.com/ArsenalWFC/status/1338124792646471683

Beattie has shown immense courage to tell her story and raise awareness for such an important topic when it may have been easier to keep it to herself and we wish her all the best in her recovery.

MISS – ANTOINE GRIEZMANN

What does it mean to be a brand ambassador?

In days gone by, it meant standing with a product or wearing a cap emblazoned with a brand’s logo and smiling for photographs.

But consumers demand a lot more from the brands they buy and support these days, expecting them to have a social conscience as well as be of good quality.

Antoine Griezmann, the Barcelona and France striker, used Instagram to make a statement declaring that he was severing ties with Chinese electronics brand Huawei due to their alleged involvement in China’s treatment of Muslim Uighurs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/chinas-huawei-tested-ai-software-that-could-identify-uighurs-report.html

China has been criticised by global governments and other sports stars including Mesut Ozil and Sonny Bill Williams with up to a million Uighurs suspected to be in ‘re-education camps.’

https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088/status/1205439723302469632?lang=en

https://twitter.com/SonnyBWilliams/status/1204488061796507648

The Chinese government has consistently denied mistreatment and says the camps are designed to stamp out terrorism and improve employment opportunities.

“Following strong suspicions that Huawei has contributed to the development of a Uighur alert thanks to facial recognition software, I am announcing the immediate termination of my partnership with the company," Griezmann said in an Instagram post.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CInqQ5-ptdP/

“I take this opportunity to invite Huawei to not just deny these accusations but to take concrete actions as quickly as possible to condemn this mass repression, and to use its influence to contribute to the respect of human and women's rights in society.”

Given that Griezmann has been a Huawei ambassador since 2017, his statement does beg the question why there were no discussions between him or his representatives and Huawei before he cut ties.

Rather than just highlighting his concerns as he resigned, he could perhaps have had a greater impact by announcing that he wanted to work with Huawei to ensure that the Uighurs plight was addressed.

As it was, Huawei issued their own statement in which they said: “We would like to extend an invitation to speak to him personally, to explain the work that is currently being done at the highest level, inside the company, to address the issues of human rights, equality, and discrimination at all levels, and to reassure him, and all our customers and partners, that Huawei takes these concerns very seriously.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55265989

Whether or not Huawei could or would have done anything is open to debate and conjecture, but if Griezmann had attempted to work with them to make a positive change for the Uighers, imagine how much more impactful that would have been both for the player and the company?

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Julian Brandt interview (June 11, 2019)

Source: https://www.waz.de/sport/fussball/bvb/julian-brandt-borussia-dortmund-kann-mich-praegen-id226123423.html

The first thought you get, whenever you stand in front of Julian Brandt is he is tall. Because he moves so quick on the pitch, you never notice his 1,86 meter height. So he is tall but not cocky. He first congratulates our reporter for his birthday and tell him, to his shock, that even he starts to feel his bones at the age of 23. He also talks about his transfer from Bayer Leverkusen to Borussia Dortmund and the reasons; the rebuilding of the Die Mannschaft and how he imagines a leader role within the team.

Mr. Brandt, how grown up do you feel?

Julian: Well, I do feel the years in my feet and legs. I have played many games already and my body starts to wear off. I know this is complaining on a high level, but I’m not getting younger (laughs).

Many people also talk about the national team. How “mature” do you think the team is already?

 Julian: You have to give us time until the EURO 2020. We still have to grow together and get to know each other better. But we have developed in a positive way thus far. Whats special is that many guys have to take responsibility now

What are the consequences?

Julian: You have to be a player where others take directions from. That’s not easy. Its something which has to grow. Its a step that still needs some time.

You too, personally? You belong to the more experienced players with 25 caps already..

Julian: That is true. Though sometimes its like I still have the feeling I have to find my way and adopt here. But you sure feel, how time is running. I’m not a loud speaking guy like Joshua Kimmich. And not like Thomas Muller who talks a lot (laughs). But I do feel how I want to go head during training sessions. I see it as a duty for myself, to give to team some footing.

So you want to contribute like Mesut Ozil did on the pitch, something that many players credited him to have the ability to?

Julian: Mesut was kind of a guy, which you didnt hear a lot on the pitch, but he was able to give the game a certain direction. He had a moment where he played a terrific pass which gave the team a jolt. That’s also my way of doing it. I surely don’t count as someone who “screams a lot”.

Lets talk about the 2-0 victory against Belarus. A classic hard-fought victory?

Julian: Winning the game was something that everbody expected us to do. And we did that. Like anticipated Belarus was very defensive. And sure, not everything worked out the way we wanted to, because many of our guys had vacation before. But it was okay, given that many of us trained together for just a couple of days.

You sat on the bench and were subbed in the 76th minute. Dissapointed?

Julian: I never go into games with certain demands, which is why I was very happy about every minute that I was able to play.

But you certainly expect more minutes against Estonia?

Julian: Every player wants to play from the beginning – thats no secret. And they want to play as long as possible.

You are transfering to Borussia Dortmund this summer. The competition is much bigger there. You could have made yourself comftable in Leverkusen a year before the EURO 2020. Why such a risk?

Julian: It wasn’t easy to leave Leverkusen. But I had a feeling, that I was in for something new. I want to prove myself new. I think its good for me to face new tasks and achieve new goals.

So whats different at BVB?

Julian: The quality is higher. Everything is bigger there. You can see this with the fanbase, but also the international reach. And the pressure is higher at BVB – even through the media. When Dortmund had a lot of points advance and then suddently the gap between them and Bayern became smaller – everybody was talking about them. Back at Leverkusen when we were on tenth place, you could have gotten the impression that nobody was upset about it. That’s different in Dortmund and this could shape me personally but also in my style of play.

And now you going to win the national championship and become EURO Champions?

Julian: It would be nice, if I can play my part so that the next season is going to be as exciting like the last one. But I’m careful about season goals. I have to get used to the new club and get to know the new team. Then I will get a feeling about whats possible. Marco probably knows more about that. It’s an open secret, that he wants to win the championship.

You mean Marco Reus. How do you guys get along?

Julian: We get along very well. He are sitting next to each other in the locker room. I have spoken to him before my transfer. He told me how happy he would be if I would go to Dortmund. He is a fantastic player. Marco is one reason why I decided to go to Dortmund.

How does it feel to have a transfer worth of 25 million euros and still counting as cheap?

Julian: That’s still a lot of money, one should never forget. But this is a business where people pay a lot of money and in the end I’m just a part of the whole.

To get to this point, you experienced a youth totally dedicated to football. Did you miss something?

Julian: No, because my youth was very good and unproblematic. It was even easier and easy-going than now. Especially my time in Wolfsburg was fundamental for my career. Leverkusen was also an important step. Whatever decision I have made in my career thus far, up until now it always felt it were the right ones. This gave me self-confidence deciding to go to Dortmund.

Is it because of right way of planning, hard work or luck?

Julian: Luck plays a role, of course. Until now I always followed my gut feeling. I do what I’m keen to do. That helps. And thanks to my mom I never got seriously injured.

Your mother?

Julian: I recieve osteopathic and homeopathic treatment from my mother. Many people find this amusing. But this is how is was raised. Even our dog gets that sort of treatment. And so I never got seriously injured. That’s the basis of a good career. My mother is the reason why everything went so good in my career thus far.

You seem to be very family oriented.

Julian: Yes, I have an absolut intact family, that gives me support. My father is my manager. I used to live together with my older brother in Cologne. The other one plays at Werder Bremen, maybe one day he will play against me on the pitch.

What does home means to you?

Julian: There are some people who go on a journey and travel the whole world. I stay at home as long as possible during my vacation. That also a privilege.

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Mesut: Many fans have asked me, my close relatives and friends about our wishes for tomorrow's wedding. As a professional footballer I am in a fortunate and privileged position. However, I invite everyone who is willing and able to help to support a very special project close to both of our hearts that we will undertake with @big.shoe11! 🙏🏼 Amine and I will bear the expenses for surgeries of 1000 children in need. I’d be happy if in addition, many more treatments all over the world can be fulfilled. If you would like to help this good cause, please click the link in my bio. I have really taken the team at BigShoe and the passion they treat their young patients with to my heart. BigShoe works alongside German and Swiss Doctors to help children all around the world by providing life changing surgeries. Burns, club feet & clefts are medical conditions that developing countries struggle to treat due to lack of doctors, money and medicine. We have already worked together for surgeries in Brazil (Worldcup 2014), in Africa (2016) and in Russia (2018). Now we want to go the next step and help children worldwide. 🙏🏼❤ #M1Ö@gulseamine

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The Duke of Cambridge will attend a Football for Peace Graduation Ceremony

Copper Box Arena, London

Thursday 22nd November, 2018

The Duke of Cambridge will attend the graduation ceremony of 30 Young Peace Leaders from Football for Peace’s UK City for Peace programme at the Copper Box Arena on 22nd November 2018.

Cities for Peace is a programme created by Football for Peace, a global football charity that aims to develop relationships and understanding in marginalised communities around the world. The organisation encourages social cohesion by using football to bring children together from different cultures, faiths and backgrounds. By working together, these young people learn to confront preconceptions, stereotypes and extreme ideologies through their shared passion of football.

On the day, the event will honour the organisation’s Young Peace Leaders who have completed the City for Peace programme. Through this programme, Football for Peace works in conjunction with local councils, football clubs and schools to train young people aged 15-18 in how to unite their communities on and off the pitch, from running local football tournaments to organising classroom workshops to discuss issues currently dividing their communities.

During the visit, The Duke will attend a workshop on equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as conflict resolution, which will be delivered by Football for Peace tutors and attended by Young Peace Leaders. His Royal Highness will then meet the charity’s Footballing Ambassadors, teachers and watch over 60 students from six schools in Newham who will be taking part in a Peace Tournament and other football drills sessions led and managed by the Young Peace Leaders. The Duke will then help present the certificates to young people from London, Birmingham and Luton who have completed their Youth Peace Leaders programme.

This event coincides with the launch by Football for Peace of the #FootballSavesLives campaign, a new pledge to train 500 young people across the UK to become Peace leaders by 2020. This campaign will be launched on the day with the participation of international football players including Wilfried Zaha, Mesut Ozil, John Terry, Louis Saha, Bacary Sagna, and Troy Deeney.

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Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (C) poses with current and past footballers and coaches, including Mamadou Sakho, Mathieu Flamini, Avram Grant, Louis Saha, Carlton Cole, Bacary Sagna, Mesut Özil, Kashif Siddiqi and Dr. Erkut Sogut at the graduation ceremony of 30 Young Peace Leaders from Football for Peace's UK City for Peace programme at the Copper Box Arena on November 22, 2018 in London. - Cities for Peace is a programme created by Football for Peace, a global football charity that aims to develop relationships and understanding in marginalised communities around the world.

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Arsenal 1-3 Manchester United Analysis - Solskjaer Continues to Impress

Arsenal (4-2-3-1): Cech; Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Koscielny, Kolasinac; Torreira, Xhaka; Aubameyang, Ramsey, Iwobi; Lacazette

Man Utd (4-3-1-2): Romero; Young, Lindelof, Bailly, Shaw; Herrera, Matic, Pogba; Lingard; Lukaku, Sanchez

Both teams were at close to full strength, fielding around eight first-teamers each and a couple of fringe players including their excellent respective backup goalkeepers. Manchester United used this opportunity to give the likes of Alexis Sanchez & Romelu Lukaku a chance, who had both been marginalised recently, and both took their chance to give Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a selection headache in the coming weeks. Both managers have a decent incentive to win the FA cup; it would help Solskjaer’s case for a permanent stay at United to win a cup, and Unai Emery is under some pressure to match Arsene Wenger’s recent success in the competition.  

Jesse Lingard played centrally in a fluid 4-3-1-2 formation for United, which was the same approach Solskjaer took to their recent game at Tottenham, and Lingard would be key to the victory on this occasion too. Arsenal struggled to mark three central attackers, with him playing close to Lukaku and Sanchez in centre forward roles, and Pogba surged forward from midfield to join them when possible. This tactic is reminiscent of Alex Ferguson’s use of Ji-Sung Park in key games. Park was a hard working winger like Lingard but would play centrally in these games to harrass the opponent’s deep lying playmaker and knock them off their rhythm. Arsenal dont really play a deep playmaker - Lucas Torreira and Granit Xhaka are more functional, combative players, but Lingard caused a 4 v 3 overload in midfield and Arsenal’s centre backs didnt pick him up either.

The opening goal for Sanchez came from good play from Lukaku. Lukaku withdrew slightly allowing Sanchez to take up the central striker position, and a nicely weighted through pass from Lukaku presented the Chilean with a one on one with Petr Cech which he duly dispatched. Had United played their normal formation, he very likely wouldnt have been able to get to this position as he would have probably started in a much wider role. The second goal followed very quickly, Lukaku led a counter attack down the right, Lingard was in his central position and made a good, subtle run inside the box to create space and time to take a touch before calmly slotting past Cech. The front three were very fluid in their positioning, happy to interchange to cause as much confusion in the Arsenal defence as possible.

The home side lacked an obvious strategy, mostly looking to play it wide and overload the opposition full backs who didnt have a winger in front of them to help defensively. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang predominantly played on the right, with he and Alexandre Lacazette interchanging sometimes, so one was always covering the wing to allow the other to maintain a central striking position. Aubameyang showed a good attitude and worked quite hard out wide, tracking back well, but Alex Iwobi on the opposite flank was more effective as a natural winger. Aubameyang, it goes without saying, is rather better being on the end of attacking moves.

Arsenal’s sole response would come through wing play though, Iwobi found Kolasinac on the overlap, who centred for Aubameyang, who had drifted inside and took up a good position for a simple finish. Arsenal could have benefitted from mimicking United’s formation, to a) get their strikers both in their natural positions, and b) to allow a midfielder to track Lingard. Aubameyang is incredibly pacy but lacks the end product to be an effective winger - in this formation he’s essentially just there to supplement Lacazette and allow Arsenal to play with width.

Lacazette switched to the right in the second half - he is more of a well rounded player but this might simply have been Emery trying to keep both players happy by each getting a stint as striker. This is a minor point but I was surprised Arsenal didnt swap their wide players around - theoretically right footers Aubameyang and Lacazette cutting in from left wing to shoot and Iwobi more naturally stretching play on right might have been more effective.

Arsenal lost both starting centre backs to injury and ended up with Xhaka playing at centre back, which is hardly ideal when up against a traditional number 9 like Lukaku who dominates arial battles and physical challenges.

Both players used a number 10 but neither were typical playmakers despite each having one at their disposal (Mesut Ozil and Juan Mata), so a lot of the big chances in the game came from simple counter attacks rather than clever passes. Arsenal introduced Ozil in the second half which was a welcome move, but in removing Iwobi they took off the only genuine wide threat - they could have made a more daring sub especially when in need of a goal.

It would be unfair to say United sat back as the second half went on, but they did take less risks to try to take the sting out of the game. Lukaku and Sanchez were withdrawn for Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford, who have started ahead of them in recent games, and the latter pair would be more effective with only 20 minutes to go for any counter attacks that presented themselves.

Ramsey didnt make much impact as the central playmaker, in contrast to the impressive Lingard. Emery appeared to agree, introducing Ozil after 64 minutes, who has been on the periphery at Arsenal for a while now. Ozil didnt do a great deal either unfortunately, understandably low on confidence perhaps.

A word for Ainsley Maitland-Niles who played at right back. He had a solid but unspectacular game, looks a decent fit in the role though and will likely be filling in there for the remainder of the season due to Lichsteiner’s advancing age and his struggles when he has played this season. Maitland-Niles was caught out for the decisive third goal for United as he was pushing up the pitch in search of a winner. Martial followed in a Pogba shot from distance for a simple finish, but Maitland-Niles wasnt really at fault - Pogba had dispossed Ramsey in the midfield with alarming ease and Arsenal were left with not enough numbers back in defence, not for the first time in the game. Arsenal’s midfield since the Ozil substitution looked muddled and lacking a real plan, possibly why Ramsey was dawdling with possession when Pogba took it from him.

The major conclusion to draw from this game is that with every game Solskjaer looks more and more like he should be given the manager’s job at Old Trafford on a full time basis. This was his second “tough test” after a relatively gentle start to his return to Manchester, and he passed with flying colours once again. He seems to have settled on a gameplan for games against other top teams, using Lingard in a central role; it will be interesting to see if he sticks with it, and if the likes of Manchester City or PSG can find a way to counteract it in their upcoming games. Arsenal were unlucky to receive two defensive injuries but were carved open too easily on several occasions, and failed to take real advantage of Manchester United’s lack of width given their slightly unusual formation. Emery needs to find an effective way to get the best out of his attacking players like Solskjaer has managed to do so far. It will be interesting to see how Mesut Ozil’s situation develops, with him unlikely to secure a move away from the Emirates this transfer window.

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Israel-Hamas War: Ex-Real Madrid, Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil backs Palestine

Former Arsenal and Real Madrid star, Mesut Ozil has shown his support for Palestine in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, an Islamic Resistance Movement. Ozil is the latest prominent sports personality to have shown support for Palestinians in the wake of the conflict in the region, following the attacks by the terror group, Hamas, in Israel on Saturday. DAILY POST reports the conflict between Israel and Hamas has escalated, resulting in total military warfare in the Gaza Strip since last weekend. According to a report from humanitarian bodies, the war had already claimed over 2,300 lives on both sides. Reacting to the development, the former Germany international, in a post via his X account on Friday, also asked for an end to the war, which also showed his support for Palestine. Ozil’s message went along with a photo which was captioned ‘#FreePalestine’. “Praying for humanity. Praying for peace,” the 34-year-old wrote with two praying emojis and the Palestinian flag. “Innocent people and especially innocent kids are losing their lives in the war – on both sides. It’s so heartbreaking & sad. PLEASE STOP THE WAR!!! Read the full article

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Mesut Ozil tells Arda Guler to reject Barcelona move until 2024

Mesut Ozil tells Arda Guler to reject Barcelona move until 2024 Mesut Ozil, the former Real Madrid player, has commented on Barcelona's potential signing of Arda Guler.  Barcelona has been actively pursuing a deal to acquire the promising Turkish talent before the start of the 2023/24 season, surpassing Real Madrid in the competition for his services.  According to the latest reports, Deco has traveled to Istanbul to finalize the specifics of a deal with Fenerbahce in order to activate Guler's release clause of 17.5 million.  Barcelona maintains a strong belief that they will successfully complete the deal in the next few days, despite continued interest from Madrid and other European clubs. Despite the interest from Barcelona and the progress made in the negotiations, Arda Guler's former Fenerbahce teammate, Ozil, has advised him against making a significant move at this point in his career, as he believes Guler should continue his development in Turkey.  According to reports from Mundo Deportivo, Ozil personally contacted the young midfielder and encouraged him to stay in Turkey for another year before considering his options.  The final decision on whether Guler will move to Spain is expected to be made by July 4. Mesut Ozil tells Arda Guler to reject Barcelona move until 2024 Read the full article

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Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (C) and Arsenal and Germany's Mesut Ozil (2nd L) take part in a football drill session as he attends the graduation ceremony of 30 Young Peace Leaders from Football for Peace's UK City for Peace programme at the Copper Box Arena on November 22, 2018 in London. - Cities for Peace is a programme created by Football for Peace, a global football charity that aims to develop relationships and understanding in marginalised communities around the world.

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Translation: Kai Havertz portait in ZEIT newspaper (January 2019)

NOTE: Hey guys! This time I tried something new. I translated an exclusive portrait the german weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT did with Kai in January. They interviewed him as well as Kai’s family. Its very candid and has alot of details. I hope you guys like it, since DIE ZEITs writing is usually very difficult - even for germans. And I apologize for spelling errors as usual. 

The original text in German

Kai Havertz: the peace itself

 (January 23, 2019)

People praise Leverkusens national player Kai Havertz, 19, for his serenity with the ball which put him on the radar of many European top clubs. His parents start to realize that he is likely becoming world famous.

By Jörg Kramer

The most promising german football talent these days picked a table very far behind in an restaurant somewhere in Cologne to order himself some spagetti gnocchi – inconspicuous.

There is no star posturing with Kai Havertz. The 19 year old could even go through as a normal university student; with his bright hoodie and somewhat cheap and not even special occurence.

And with his voice, which has this typical regional dialect, without the typical empty phrases that young football player use to often in order to cover up their meaningless sentences. But people know his face by now. So thats why he doesnt sit right next to the entrance.

He belongs to the celebrities of the football scene. European top clubs are scouting the young men in stadiums, team mates from Bayer Leverkusen praising him and forecasting him to have the potential to become a world star.

He already scored nine goals this season, decided some games by his own and played his first games for the national team. Havertz became the centre of his clubs game by playing at the centre midfield. His role only changed slightly and the importance of his role not at all, since Peter Bosz took over as head coach. He views this very relaxed and talks in an restaurant somewhere in the Belgian Quarter of Cologne about Leverkusen being the „perfect place“ in order to develop as a young player. And thats where he wants to give his all for the last half year ahead. Ooops!

His last half year? That was a slip of the tongue of course, he meant to say the next half year. Because his contract with Bayer is still running until 2022 without an exit clause. But things now are developing in a rapid way which runs parallel to his explosive performance currently. Its just a matter of the perfect timing that someone like him will end up going to Barcelona, Manchester or at least Munich – a choice between summer 2019 or summer 2020 maybe.

Havertz walks over his misspelled sentence like nothing happend. Once in Nuremberg in the middle of a turmoil of an rainy game, it seemed as if he stopped – as if he was reconsidering the situation with him having the ball. Like if somebody pressed a ‚Stop‘-button. And he chiped to ball in an cool and unemoitional and scored.

Coaches and team mates are citizing his body language, he says. So he works on looking more aggresive. He even participates on useless discussions between his teammates and referees after controversial decisions on the pitch, in order to get a penalty for the other team or some revenge. But it doesnt really look good him when he does it, he admits – even after a though tackle or when going after the ball. „I’m a player that shines with his tranquility.“ A nice sentence that gives away his elegante style of play.

Havertz remained an artist on the pitch. Every foul is a sign of weakness. Everytime he gets the ball, which is his job as an offensive player, he never runs into his opponents – he anticipates. „I try to imagine, which options my opponent has, what he would do if I were him.“ He then runs with a planned pass way and he gets the ball.

Havertz learned in the past almost two and a half years all systems and tatics of modern football. Starting with a radical system, almost a raid-strategy under coach Roger Schmidt, by which the goal keeper kicked the ball high and it flew wide over the pitch – almost always directly aimed at Havertz‘ head – because he is 1,88 meters tall.

Then the mixed system under Heiko Herrlich. He always had to look for his team mates before he passed. Now with Bosz, a planfull offensive style with flat passing. He runs through all the chapters. The first began on October 15, 2016.

It was a Saturday. A day where the Havertz family from Mariadorf near Aachen still couldnt realize that their youngest son, will probably end up living off football and perhaps even become famous. They cant really believe it up until today, says Anne Havertz, his mother.

On that day – October 15 – Kai was a youth player, in a big house next to the woods in Mariadorf having breakfast – when suddently coach Schmidt called. Lars Bender, professional Bayer-player who was supposed to play against Werder Bremen that evening, got injured and had to quit. Kai had to come to Bremen, immidiately! His mother drove him to Leverkusen. A special shuttle took him to Bremen. His whole family was sitting in front of the TV that night.

Kai was sitting on the bench as expected. Then, during the 83th minute, the commentator saw already more than the viewes and said: now we are experiencing a debut. Kai Havertz was ready to get subbed. In the real Bundesliga. Anne Havertz said: „Oh my god!“.

(Credit: Instagram: kaihavertz29)

Kai’s mother, who worked as a lawyer until she got pregnant with her eldest son, came to the restaurant in Cologne one day after Kai to talk about life as a family of an future world star. She brought her husband – Kai’s father, and her daughter Lea, Kai’s sister. The sister is studying marketing and digital media in the city.

People can reach his father in an emergency by dailing 1-1-0. He is a police officer working at the police station 3 in Cologne-West. He says he is really impressed, about how cool and routinely his football playing son manages post-game interviews and how we stays cool when people recognize him in public and everybody is watching,

The Havertz family is still perplexed about a football world where colleagues of their son, order their own cooks to cook for them at home. And whenever he puts his legs into an special bag in order to regenerate. Almost the whole family – except his oldest brother and the dog – are having apple pie and salate and looking back at the stages of his career, which started at Alemannia Mariadorf. Kai skiped two age-groups. He then played with older players than actually intended. Then he transfered to Bayer Leverkusen. All because the scout was tough but not intrusive like the other scouts. By the age of ten, Bayer drove Kai to training sessions three times a week.

4 year old Kai Havertz (Credit: kicker tv)

He was still among the smallest players in the team by the age of 14. Then suddently - a growth spurt which resultet in issues with his knees and his back. They were responsible for Kai loosing his fixed spot on the team. This was also the hard time because he left home and moved to Leverkusen. The club doesnt have an academy so he stayed at a guest family – the family of the stadium announcer from Bayer, together with two other players. A year later he moved into an apartement with his older brother, until Jan had to move to Nuremberg – he has a marketing job at adidas now.

A lasting memory: endless discussions within the Havertz family about the overarching question: does the boy need a german high school diploma (Abitur)? Will he pass the tests when he is travelling around with his professional teammates?

Kai Havertz attended the Landrat-Lucas-Gymnasium. An elite school of sports where he could skip classes in the morning for training. But he always had to catch up school stuff from the day. Once he played with Leverkusen at the DFB-Cup at Sportfreunde Lotte. He was subbed late, it went into penalities and after the team was eliminated from the cup he arrived home late – at 3am. At 8am he had an English exam.

The family became a team. His mother and sister helped him with biology exams. One day the young football player said to his family, he has no power left anymore. „But he never said: I want to quit!“ his mother insists. This was a breaking point by which his parents thought about quitting and stop pursuing the Abitur. But suddently coach Roger Schmidt intervened and said Kai should pull through. The whole Bayer team will support him.

The Abitur became a factor of will power, a test of life. The school supervisor of Bayer, a former athlete herself, said something memorable: it will shape his whole life if Kai quits school now. Whenever something becomes difficult, if something goes beyond your pain barrier, he will always have this option to quit in his head, that you can just give up.

Kai Havertz choose the pain, the Abitur. Now he will always choose the hard way if the theory of his supervisor holds.

On this January afternoon in Cologne, he is being asked what other job he would have picked if it wasnt for football. He likes the job as a barber, for men’s hairstyle. He smiles. Some curls are hanging on his forehead from left to right. A Barber. He wouldnt have needed an Abitur for that.

He is a genius at football. He won the German junior championship with Bayer and scored 19 goals in 29 games. He got awarded as a Under-19-player as the best of his age with the Fritz-Walter-medal from the DFB. Kai made it onto second place on his position after Marco Reus from Dortmund in a list of the football magazine „kicker“ which they publish every half year – but seven spaces in front of Munich’s Thomas Müller.

Coach Heiko Herrlich says Havertz reminds him of Toni Kroos. Football critic Reiner Calmund compared him to Franz Beckenbauer. His head goals remind him of Michael Ballack. Mesut Özil was always Kai Havertz idol, because of his tranquility with the ball and his ability to read a game. Sometimes Kai misses the final conciseness in front of the goal, which was visible after the recent 0-1 loss against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Having the ability to remain calm, even when you get tackled is the result of a deep confidence in your own strenghts: screen your surrondings – in short time if necessary – and then make the right decision. Joachim Löw praises Havertz „good orientation“, something he said about Özil years ago. What he means is a certain sense of space on the pitch – an inner compass. Something that has to do with attention and memory. Havertz, who is a master of navigation, doesn’t even need practice. Some creatures have special senses and are able to find orientation on earth through a magnetic field – like migratory birds for example.

Kai Havertz likes watching Champions League games. And while watching them, there is always a wish inside him to participate as well whenever the big games of the quarter- and semifinals are on. „I think you can only reach that level by going to a top club at some point“ he says.

Mother, father and sister Havertz say, they don’t expect things from him. Something they never did in his career. But if someone asks them, who will follow Kai in a foreign country to get used to everything – they start to think about it. They would alternate. One week his mother would visit, next week his sister and then his grandmother maybe.

Kai Havertz still has a room back home in Mariadorf. Back in the day he used to have posters from FC Barcelona. So it could happen maybe one day, that youngsters in Barcelona will have posters with Kai Havertz on them.

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