3rd league
Götze after scandal in Dresden: “I cried”
Mario Götze’s brother Felix plays for third division club Rot-Weiss Essen. He injured his head during the game in Dresden. What happens next shocks him.
“Yesterday I cried for the first time in my football career. Not because of the pain, but because it was humiliating to be insulted, spat on and thrown at with my face bleeding and in shock. There are limits and unfortunately they were exceeded yesterday,” wrote Götze Instagram.
The 26-year-old was taken off the pitch on a stretcher with a bleeding laceration. He was then bid farewell with shouts of “goodbye” from the Dynamo fan block. The paramedics also had to protect him from projectiles from the curve with umbrellas.
There’s a person in every jersey!
“I love this sport and I appreciate all the fans, because without you football wouldn’t be what it is,” Götze continued: “But, despite all the emotions, certain limits simply cannot be exceeded – that was unfortunately the case yesterday . There is a person in every jersey that is worn down on the pitch!”
Götze was injured during a rescue operation shortly before the end. He collided with Jakob Lemmer from Dresden and was then carried off the pitch.