Saturday, February 26, 2011

Career DFB: German Turk Gundogan is insulted and threatened

A couple of funny videos, click and write messages to friends, it was always a nice change. Evening recovered Ilkay Gundogan been like a training day, when he logged into Facebook and the social network took advantage of the Internet - as does almost every 20-year-old. At last, the midfielder is the first FC Nuremberg passed the joy of it.

"I was insulted on the internet and on the street by strangers as a traitor. There were worse things there. In Facebook people have threatened me that I never again will come to Turkey. This is not harmless, "Gundogan said" Soccer Daily Buzz ". The son of Turkish parents recently decided to play for Germany.

And not for Turkey. Other than his club colleague, Mehmet Ekici (20), who played with him for the German junior national teams, but now the shirt of the home with his parents. Gundogan see some deliberate decision as an affront to the country. Turkey was also courting him. No wonder: Gundogan has evolved over the past two years by a talented performer.

What Mario idol at Borussia Dortmund and Andre Schürrle at the 1 FSV Mainz 05 are, he is in Nuremberg - a skyscraper. In the first round, he scored four goals, three in front and was prepared in 16 of 17 games for the starting XI. Apparently Manchester United and Hamburg SV are interested in the high school graduates.

Nuremberg's captain Andreas Wolf believes that he can be better than Mesut Özil from Real Madrid. "Every country wants good players, that's clear. But such things are not normal, "says Gundogan to the hostilities on the web. He is a cheerful and polite person. Before the training, he greets the fans after the unit he takes time for the children in FCN-shirts and signs autographs.

Gundogan laughs a lot. But when he speaks about the attacks against him, he looks to the ground. It is felt: He is angry, disappointed and in particular by the reactions. "I can not understand that I am criticized for this decision." The Turkish fans do football players always difficult, even Mesut Özil.

supported at the World Cup in South Africa last summer, the followers still, the TV commentators called it only "Mesut," fans on the Bosphorus Germany wore jerseys with his name on the back. Long ago. At the European Championship qualification match of the German national team against Turkey on 8 October 2010 in Berlin's Olympic Stadium (3-0) kicked him out of many Turkish spectators.

For harassment concluded the midfielder from Real Madrid professional forum that his Web site. Even the Turkish President Abdullah Gul was forced to calm things down. Özil is a perfect example of German-Turkish friendship, the fans would not offend him and to boo. Had Özil him in choosing a country asked for advice, he would have encouraged him to play for Germany.

"I support him fully." Gundogan is like Özil in Gelsenkirchen born and raised, has played for many youth national teams. His decision was not against Turkey, but one for Germany, he stressed. He loves both countries may, Turkish food and likes to hear songs of the German singer Xavier Naidoo.

"In my heart beat two hearts: I have great sympathy for Turkey, but I feel like a German and live like a German. My way of playing football is dominated by the German training of German virtues, as stated many times. So it was for me never in question, for another country to play. "The fact that others can not understand it, he does not understand.

Gundogan has now pulled consequences: He uses his private profile on Facebook no longer on the members can send him messages. There is only a fansite. "I just want to have my peace." He is currently learning for high school exams in mid-March. To the Mathe-credit course to be even better, he meets every Friday before training with a former teacher for special help.

School, professional football, hostile - the highest in the load for a 20-year-olds probably are not. Gundogan processed all that in conversations with his family, now his mother and brother are with him to visit. Even coach Dieter Hecking is a trusted person. On Saturday (15.30 Clock, Sky) Nuremberg will play against FC Schalke 04, whose coach Felix Magath the 17-year-old Julian Talent Draxler recently advised to quit school and focusing exclusively on football.

Hecking is different. "He was for us and for me a stroke of luck. Just because he supports that I finish school. I am very grateful to him and the club, "says Gundogan.

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