World Cup winner Goetze writes children’s book

BERLIN: Germany’s World Cup winner Mario Goetze has started a sideline career as an author after releasing his illustrated children’s book “Mario’s Big Dream” on Tuesday to raise money for charity.

“I have so much to thank football for and it is my wish to give something back to others and share something with them,” the Borussia Dortmund midfielder told SID, an AFP subsidiary.“Children are very important to me, because they are the future, so I decided to write a children’s book about respect, tolerance and open-mindedness.”

Goetze read his book to a group of school children at Germany’s Football Museum in Dortmund, near where the boot with which he scored the winner in the 2014 World Cup final is on permanent display.