The president of the German Football Union, Reinhard Grindel, categorically rejected Mesut Osil's allegations of racism.

Midfielder Arsenal Mesut Ozil, completing the performance for the national team of Germany, accused the Football Union and its leadership in racism.

"I'm very sorry to hear this from the lips of Ozila," the official statement of the president of the German Football Union Reinhard Grindel. - And the NSF, and I personally adhere to the principles of tolerance, the fight against discrimination and racism. It is even more unfortunate that ordinary workers of the Football Union. Accusations of Ozila are groundless.

It's enough just to look at the composition of our teams, in which there are a lot of emigrants and their descendants ".

In conclusion, Grindel added that he was not going to resign because of groundless accusations, and Ozil himself, instead of blaming everyone indiscriminately, would have thought better of what he himself could do better so that the German team did not fail on the 2018 World Cup.

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