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media type="youtube" key="Clu4L9Wm5K0?fs=1" height="385" width="640" [|[] plays for Spanish [|La Liga] club [|Real Madrid] and for the [|German national team]. Özil has been a youth national team member since 2006, when he debuted for first professional league season and a member of the German national team since 2009. He gained international attention during the [|2010 FIFA World Cup] and was nominated for the [|Golden Ball Award] which is awarded to the tournament's best player. Following his breakout performance at the World Cup, he was transferred to Real Madrid in August 2010. His nicknames include “//der neue Diego//” – the new [|Diego] – in reference to the Brazilian playmaker whose role he has inherited at Werder Bremen[|[][|3][|]] and "//German Messi//"[|[][|4][|]] for his remarkable playmaking and ball handling abilities resembling [|Barcelona] and [|Argentina] star Lionel Messi A third-generation [|Turkish-German][|[][|5][|]], who, in reference to his game, concludes, "My technique and feeling for the ball is the Turkish side to my game. The discipline, attitude and always-give-your-all is the German part.
 * Mesut Özil**:

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[|Club career] [|Gelsenkirchen and Rot-Weiss Essen] [|Schalke 04] [|Werder Bremen] [|Real Madrid] [|International career] [|2010 World Cup] [|International goals] [|Career statistics] [|Honours] [|Club] [|Country] [|Personal life] [|References] [|External links]