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Mesut Özil has quit the German national team and issued a four-page statement that concludes “I will no longer be playing for Germany at international level whilst I have this feeling of racism and disrespect.”

The fact that arguably Germany’s highest-profile sportsman no longer feels comfortable representing the national team makes this one of the biggest stories in Germany’s sports history – a super-Saipan that dramatises the conflicts in Germany’s increasingly fractious debate on immigration and cultural integration.

After analysing Özil’s lengthy statement, we are joined by Raphael Honigstein to discuss the resulting fall-out.

Plus there’s Jose in Cali and Karius’ plea to humanity.

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