My Girlfriend Wants Victory - Chapter 50



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One day, while we were training peacefully in Dortmund.

“Ah! Gino! The DFB wants to meet you sometime. Are you willing to meet?”

I heard through Dortmund that the German Football Federation would like to meet me.

As soon as I heard the news, I had a rough idea why he wanted to talk to me.

DFB, or in our country’s equivalent, the Korea Football Association, would have any reason to meet me.

It’s 100% a naturalization issue.

“At DFB?”

But I asked back innocently, pretending not to know anything.

Usually, people like people who are quick-witted, but they also show a wary attitude.

“Uh, maybe… .”

A Dortmund official answered cautiously.

“Gino, I think we’re going to talk about naturalization.”

I nodded while looking at the sight. Of course, nationality is a sensitive issue.

In particular, Germany may be a bit more cautious as it does not allow dual citizenship for non-EU foreigners.

‘But anyway, Korea doesn’t allow dual citizenship.’

Well, it’s none of my business, but how would the Dortmund officials know that?

After thanking him for sharing his story, I immediately contacted my agent, Mino Rainola.

– Mino Raiola: I’ll go now.

The transfer market hasn’t closed yet, but there was no rush. Mino Raiola flew straight to Dortmund.

“Jin-ho! You’ve grown a lot!”

“I saw you a month ago.”

“I guess it’s because he’s growing up.”

Mino Raiola continued, tapping my shoulder lightly.

“Anyway… let’s go.”

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Indeed, what kind of proposals did the German Football Federation come up with to convince me?

“Gino, nice to meet you.”

It was a moment of slight anticipation.

***

The conversation with the DFB executive was a bit disappointing.

“Gino, if you naturalize as a German citizen, you won’t have to go to the military.”

“I’m an orphan, so I can’t go to the military.”

My first impression of the association executives was not good; they were a bit arrogant.

What should I say? I felt strongly that ‘we are the German national team. You should be honored just by being offered naturalization by us.’

“Well, isn’t German citizenship better than Korean citizenship?”

Perhaps, the executives of this association may have mistaken my homeland as North Korea, not South Korea.

Your country is an underdeveloped country, so of course you would accept Germany’s offer of naturalization, right? Is this a misconception?

‘I guess it wasn’t a mistake.’

The association officials may not notice, but judging from the quivering lips of Mino Raiola next to me, I think what I felt from the association officials was right.

“I will fully support you until you become a national representative.”

After the German association official finished speaking with the feeling of “Is this enough?”, he made eye contact with Mino Raiola for a short moment and nodded.

Mino Raiola’s shoe flew towards the association officials.

“How dare you, you little pig! You look down on my friend Gino!”

However, it seems that he adjusted his position so as not to ruin his relationship with the DFB, as he did not throw the chair.

“It seems there’s a misunderstanding! Calm down!”

I looked at Bierhoff, the German national team director, who was calming down Mino Raiola with a puzzled expression, lost in thought.

Well… . The current Germany has Mesut Ozil and Schweinsteiger who has been playing fantastically since changing his position to midfielder in the 09/10 season, Toni Kroos who has not yet found his place and is playing as a winger but was already highly praised by Munich legends as an attacking midfielder during his promising days, and Sami Khedira who was considered Ballack’s successor and currently plays for Real Madrid. There was no rush because there were many talented players growing or playing in the midfield position.

Even offering me naturalization would be more of a consideration for the future after they retire rather than the current national team.

So, wouldn’t the association executives have taken the attitude of ‘We don’t need you. There will continue to be excellent players in the future besides you. We’re Germany, right?’

‘I wonder if it would have been different if it had come from a Western association rather than the DFB.’

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Suddenly, I thought about what it would have been like if the Western Football Association (WFV), to which Dortmund belongs, had made a naturalization offer.

I don’t think it would have made much of a difference. The WFV, being just a regional association, would have less power than the DFB.

And in the first place… .

[Bierhoff, ‘In any case, only players with a connection to Germany can become national team players.’]

As you can see from Bierhoff’s interview ahead of the 2005 World Cup held in his home country, where he opposed the idea of ​​calling up naturalized players rather than players who had grown up in Germany.

German football is a very conservative place. Players like Jerome Boateng, Sami Khedira, Mesut Ozil, Emre Can, Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose were all born in Germany or have German parents.

In this conservative football world, the fact that they offered me naturalization with the condition of ‘fully supporting me until I become a national team player’ showed that they valued me quite highly.

‘If you want to become naturalized, you should first change your attitude… .’

Well, that was all due to the attitude of the association executives.

“Don’t let that rotten author ever show himself or Jin-ho’s eyes again!”

In any case, Mino Raiola protested to Bierhoff and the DFB about the attitude of the association officials.

“Then how about naturalization…?”

“Even if I become naturalized, it will take at least 5 more years before I can be drafted, right? I wish you would give me a little more time to think about it.”

He neither rejected nor accepted the German Football Association’s offer of naturalization.

Accepting the offer of naturalization right away can be unpleasant from an outsider’s perspective… .

Naturalization was a matter that had to be approached with some caution. Not only in our country, but most people felt a sense of betrayal when they gave up their citizenship.

Especially in Asia, which is more conservative than Europe or South America, there may be cases where people turn into anti-fans just because they heard that I was naturalized.

‘Some people may cheer for us, but Korea will become a den of 100% anti-fans.’

Even if you don’t think so, the media will push it that way. Didn’t Argentina rip Messi off when he was young because he grew up ‘happily’ in Spain instead of in his home country?

‘Then when Messi announced his retirement, the whole country voted for Hoofie, right?’

And not only that, there was also the racial aspect of life in Germany to consider.

I am Asian. I was not born in Germany nor do I have German parents.

Even since I was young, I didn’t live in Germany. Including my previous life, I lived in Korea for over 30 years.

The thoughts, way of thinking, and values ​​are all Korean.

I get so frustrated when there’s a public transportation strike, and I feel like I’m going crazy when administrative processing is slow.

Will Germans accept me, a native Korean who presses F5 even when the Internet screen opens a little late, as a German?

They would just consider me a stranger or a brown-skinned mercenary.

Didn’t Ozil, who was born and raised in Germany despite having Turkish parents, retire after saying to the president of the German national team, “He saw me as German when I won, and as Turkish when I lost,” and saying that he was fucked up and couldn’t play for the German national team anymore?

Even though he was part of the World Cup winning team, he was told by the German fans to ‘get out, Turkish pig’.

‘Well, in the case of Ozil, there were also religious issues, such as taking pictures with Turkish dictator Erdogan, who is not on good terms with the German government, and posting them on social media…’

Still, it was controversial for the head of the football association to treat a naturalized player in that way.

‘We also have to think about the racial discrimination that exists in German society.’

Unlike its neighbors, Germany is not expected to have serious racial discrimination because it has apologized many times for past issues.

Germany is a place where racial discrimination is more prevalent than you might think, to the point where there are rumors that even if a player showed outstanding skills during his childhood, he was rejected by clubs several times because of his origins (immigrant family).

And when you look at the situation in Europe, where anti-immigrant sentiment is growing stronger over time.

Surely, the German political establishment will be after me.

‘Or… we could divide Asian immigrants from immigrants from other countries like in the US.’

It was certainly an issue that needed to be approached with caution, as it could have affected Koreans living in Germany, my father-in-law and mother-in-law, who are precious to me, and Director Hwang Geum-sun in the winter because of me alone.

‘And above all, I should ask Winter’s opinion.’

My goal in this life is not to become the best soccer player. It’s to spend winter happily and sweetly.

‘Ah. Now that I think about it, Kihyun Shichi could be a problem too.’

I thought about just refusing naturalization because I felt like I had more to lose than I thought.

[Shock! Insider’s revelation: Former coach Park Kwang-rae, controversy over factionalism within the national team! ‘Overseas and domestic factions were given separate training and meals!’]

[Director Park Kwang-rae is furious at the media reports. ‘We had them train separately, but we didn’t have them eat separately! Write your article after learning the facts!’]

[Director Park Kwang-rae claims, ‘There was external pressure from the association regarding the player draft issue! Association Chairman Cho Yeon-jong blocked Son Jin-ho’s draft!’]

[The Korea Football Association has decided to appoint Jeonbuk’s coach Chae Kang-hee as the national team coach.]

[Jeonbuk Coach Chae Kang-hee Resigns from National Team Coach Position. ‘It’s Too Much of a Burden for Me.’]

[Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Intelligent Crime Investigation Unit, indicts high-ranking executives of the Korea Football Association, including Chairman Cho Yeon-jong, on charges of breach of trust.]

[The national team coach’s vacancy due to internal and external troubles? When will the next coach be appointed?]

Currently, the Korea Football Association is in a bigger mess than it has ever been in its history, so that choice is not easy.

‘Crazy… If we keep going like this, aren’t we going to fail to advance to the World Cup in Brazil?’

The atmosphere at the Korea Football Association was truly unusual.

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