Mesut OZIL - This is WHAT HAPPENED to HIM
Insane body transformation, a huge business empire, shares in a superclub “from Hollywood” and much more - you have no idea what an amazing life Mesut Ozil has been living since his retirement from professional football! Today, you will find out all the most interesting details of it! Here we go!
Mesut Ozil's transformation
Over the course of his 17-year career span, Mesut Ozil represented Schalke 04, SV Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Fenerbahçe, and İstanbul Başakşehir, and at the age of 34, he decided to hang up his boots.
Football fans will forever remember the elegant German playmaker as well as his graceful playing style, yet Mesut's only drawback was his poor physique. Believe it or not, but it was this problem that Ozil began to fix once he left the big game!
Now the Assist King spends all day in the gym. Suddenly for everyone, he built up mountains of muscle and stunned the football community with his transformation! It took only a year for Mesut to go from being a typical movie character who gets bullied at school to becoming super strong and taking revenge on his bullies!
However, Ozil assures us that he plunged into weight training for no particular reason, without a specific goal:
“I don't have a special goal. I am not waiting for a WWE offer. I'm really just doing that for myself - to stay fit. It makes a lot of fun. I have my own gym in my house and a personal trainer,” Mesut told the Spanish newspaper Marca in an exclusive interview.
Ozil's progress in the gym is definitely noteworthy, but this kind of news has been on the surface for quite a while, so we decided to dig deeper and figure out what else M10 is doing on his well-deserved rest. And now you will definitely be impressed!
Mesut Ozil and his family
For Ozil, family always comes first! Back in 2019, Mesut married Amine Gülşe after two years of dating. Amine is a former Miss Turkey winner.
In March 2020, the couple had their first child, daughter Eda. In September of the same year, Mesut and Amine introduced the world to their second baby girl, who was named Ela. Ozil frequently posts photos of his family on his Instagram page and seems to be really enjoying the comfort his closest people show him! The father does not even think about returning to the number one game:
“I am very proud of my career and all the big clubs I have played for. But the decision I made a year ago was considered very well and I knew exactly what I wanted.
I enjoy life with my family in Istanbul to the fullest. It's a great pleasure I can see both kids growing up and seeing them every day.
I would have had opportunities to continue my career or even to come back one more time - offers from Saudi Arabia or Qatar and other tournaments, but I didn't want to and I don't regret it,” states Ozil.
It's not hard to get Mesut's point. According to the reliable website Capology, the former Germany international earned €84 million during his playing career, which could be enough for him and his family for the rest of their lives! Still, these numbers won't tell you the full story!
Mesut Ozil and his investments
In football, there have always been plenty of performers who didn't think about their own future, spending money as if it were the last time they would ever see it, and almost immediately going bankrupt not long after completing their careers... Luckily, it's not the case with Ozil! Both on the pitch and in life, the guy has always been a forward-thinker, and that's why he's doing so well with his off-pitch income. Mesut's businesses are running smoothly and continuously!
Ozil owns a large real estate portfolio and a multimillion-dollar business empire, which includes a chain of coffee shops, a sports training center in Düsseldorf, not to mention his own clothing brand, M10 Streetwear.
Besides, Mesut still has a passion for video games! Everyone remembers the days when Ozil spent all his free time at Arsenal playing Fortnite? The Gunners' then head coach Unai Emery was very annoyed by the fact that Ozil was often enjoying his screen time late at night and came to training sleepy or even with some back injuries as a result!
Turns out, you can't crush a person's true desire. Mesut is still a fan of gaming and even runs his own eSports team, M10 eSports. Two years ago, in an interview with The Telegraph, his agent Erkut Sogut suggested that Ozil would try to make his hobby a professional one!
“Mesut will go more into eSports, play himself and maybe become an eSports athlete. He owns a team - M10 eSports - and he has players. He has a gaming house in Germany. He has football, like Fifa, and Fortnite. He's really good, to be honest, at Fortnite and I think one day I wouldn't be surprised if he is competing,” Sogut claimed.