Footballer Mesut Ozil requests help for infant with rare disease
Arsenal's Turkish-German midfielder Mesut Ozil is requesting help for an infant battling a rare neuromuscular disease.
Arsenal's Turkish-German footballer Mesut Ozil.
Arsenal's German midfielder Mesut Ozil is requesting help for an infant battling a rare neuromuscular disease.
"I'd like to use my reach here on Twitter to help Metehan. Metehan is diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy - a genetic disorder. With your donation and your RT [retweet], we can save him together," Ozil said in a post on the social media site on Monday.
I'd like to use my reach here on twitter to help Metehan. Metehan is diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy - a genetic disorder. With your donation and your RT we can save him together 🙏🏼↪️https://t.co/ZYNO1TOBGx #PleaseRT pic.twitter.com/P3lrLVVwGJ
— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088) September 21, 2020
Ozil, 31, is a German citizen of Turkish descent.
He helped Germany win the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
11-month-old boy Metehan Fidan has been suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and needs a gene therapy called Zolgensma to recover.
The therapy is expensive, costing $2.1 million, said the website created for Metehan's treatment.
It added that Metehan's Turkish family, who live in the UK, are awaiting help as they "fight against the clock."
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