Former Arsenal, Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil has announce his retirement from football at the age of 34.
His glittering club career saw him win nine trophies including four FA Cups titles with Arsenal and the Spanish La Liga title with Real Madrid in 2012.
Ozil also won 92 caps for Germany and was part of the team that lifted the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Ozil began his career at Schalke04 and Werder Bremen before moving to Real Madrid in the summer of 2010, winning the La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.
He moved to Arsenal for a then club record fee of £42.4m in September 2013, winning back-to-back FA Cups in his first two seasons before being named player of the season in his third, and then winning the cup again in 2017 as well as in 2020.
He joined Fenerbahce on a free transfer in January 2021 but had his contract cancelled by mutual consent in July 2022 when he joined Istanbul Basaksehir, where injuries limited him to just eight appearances.
Ozil could have played for Germany or Turkey at international level but chose to play for the country of his birth.
Ozil was named Germany player of the year five times and was part of the side that reached the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, as well as winning the 2014 World Cup.
However, he retired from international football in 2018, citing the “racism and disrespect” he faced in Germany over his Turkish roots after he was criticised for being photographed with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.