The fall and rise of Mario Gotze

Name: The fall and rise of Mario Gotze
Uploaded: 2025-04-28T06:00:14.000Z
Duration: 5 min 19 s

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Mario Gotze had won back-to-back league titles and scored the winning goal in the World Cup final, all before he was 20 years old.

He was compared to Lionel Messi. But what followed was a decade of struggle, disappointment and frustration.

But he turned not just his career around, but his life, with a move to the Netherlands, a medical diagnosis, and a distraction from football.

Kaya Kaynak writes, Philippe Fenner illustrates.

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