Introduction

In July 2018, Mesut Özil, one of the stars of the German national football team, officially resigned from the team while tweeting “I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose”.¹ Özil’s decision came on the heels of one of Germany’s poorest showings during the World Cup, and, in particular, as a result of a highly criticised meeting the same month in which he and a fellow team-mate we…