Former Schalke and Werder Bremen star Mesut Özil has endorsed a bid by the German Football Museum in Dortmund for the football fields of the Ruhr area to become a world cultural heritage site under Unesco.
"Nowhere do football pitches belong to life as they do in this area," the museum's director Manuel Neukirchner told German publication BILD, after an application to the United Nations cultural organisation was filed.
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