Soccer kids kicking off their careers | DW Documentary

Stivi and Mehmet have a dream: to become professional football players. They train with Rot-Weiss Essen four times a week and at the weekend there are league matches. Their life is all about football. Mehmet has a famous cousin and the German football champion Mesut Özil is also his role model. Like him, Mehmet wants to become a professional footballer, starting off at Rot-Weiß Essen. But he still has to convince the coaches that he’s up to the job. Stivi, whose family is mad about sport, has to do the sam