Mesut Özil Quits International Soccer In Letter Decrying Racism And Unfair Double Standards
by Chris Thompson from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3VCDQ)
Mesut i-zil retired from German international soccer Sunday, in a lengthy statement released on Twitter. i-zil says the fallout from a photo he took with Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoAan in May lays bare a kind of racism he's subjected to as a German with Turkish heritage, and that "enough is enough."