Why is the German National Football Team not German any more?
Just because they don’t “look German” doesn’t mean they’re not German. It’s true that many of the players are not “ethnically German”, but most of them were born and raised in Germany. The other ones moved there as small children. As far as I’m concerned, they’re German. Here is a list of the players you’re talking about. I put their ethnicities in parentheses. If there is a dash, the mother’s ethnicity is listed first and the father’s ethnicity is listed second. Podolski (Polish) – moved to Germany when as a two-year-old Klose (Polish-German) – moved to Germany as a seven-year-old Jérôme Boateng (German-Ghanaian) – born and raised in Germany Dennis Aogo (German-Nigerian) – born and raised in Germany Serdar Tasci (Turkish) – born and raised in Germany Sami Khedira (German-Tunisian) – born and raised in Germany Marko Marin (Bosnian) – moved to Germany as a two-year-old. His family fled from Bosnia in order to escape the war in the Balkans. Mesut Özil (Turkish) – born and raised in Germa
