Mesut Özil, the midfielder for Germany's World Cup-winning team, just set an example that all stars need to see.
After Germany won the final, each player received a bonus of more than $400,000. (Spain, for instance, had proposed a $980,000 winning bonus, to great outcry.) Instead of keeping his portion, however, Özil donated it all to support the surgeries of sick Brazilian children.
Prior to the World Cup he gave money to support 11 children, but he
just upped the number to 23 to mark the number of players on Germany's
team. Though there were reports that Özil had also donated his winnings
to the children of Gaza, his representative later said this wasn't true.
His initiative is in partnership with Big Shoe,
a German charity that uses FIFA as a platform to aid sick children.
"This is my personal thank-you for the hospitality of the people of
Brazil," he wrote on his Facebook page.
Big Shoe, for which Özil is an ambassador, has been
working with the World Cup since 2006, with no plans to stop.
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