- The Germany international believes playing on a pitch full of stones during his younger days helped him refine his technique
Want to know the secret behind Mesut Ozil’s silky touch? Here it is...
Ozil is renowned for his sublime touch but the Germany international has revealed the methods he used as a youngster to develop his skills.
"When I was younger, if I saw something lying around, I would try to juggle with it," Ozil told Arsenal Magazine.
"I would always go on vacation with my friends and we would always play games like two touch using a tennis ball, or play with a basketball, which is heavier than a normal ball.
"[I didn't just play] with chewing gum or tennis balls, sometimes with basketballs or medicine balls too - even ones that are 5kg, though that is very difficult. Sometimes on the pitch if the game has finished and I see some tape on the floor, I'll take it and play with that too.
"What helped me before was playing against older people. I would play against my brother and his friends and they were always five or six years older than me.
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"When I was 11, they were already 17 or 18. It was tough to play against them and the pitch I grew up playing on wasn't that nice, it always had stones on it.
"You had to be really concentrated when you got the ball. I think that kind of stuff helped me more.
"Juggling with tennis balls is good but I think what helped my technique was the pitch I grew up on in Gelsenkirchen."
Want to know the secret behind Mesut Ozil’s silky touch? Here it is...
Ozil is renowned for his sublime touch but the Germany international has revealed the methods he used as a youngster to develop his skills.
"When I was younger, if I saw something lying around, I would try to juggle with it," Ozil told Arsenal Magazine.
"I would always go on vacation with my friends and we would always play games like two touch using a tennis ball, or play with a basketball, which is heavier than a normal ball.
"[I didn't just play] with chewing gum or tennis balls, sometimes with basketballs or medicine balls too - even ones that are 5kg, though that is very difficult. Sometimes on the pitch if the game has finished and I see some tape on the floor, I'll take it and play with that too.
"What helped me before was playing against older people. I would play against my brother and his friends and they were always five or six years older than me.
"When I was 11, they were already 17 or 18. It was tough to play against them and the pitch I grew up playing on wasn't that nice, it always had stones on it.
"You had to be really concentrated when you got the ball. I think that kind of stuff helped me more.
"Juggling with tennis balls is good but I think what helped my technique was the pitch I grew up on in Gelsenkirchen."
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