crinkly_ears | Merry Mesut: Marvelous Marksut!

Um ... yeah, so ... this guy:

Marko Marin

Mention him one time and aaaaaaalllllllllllll of a sudden everyone's raving about this guy and I'm stuck doing a Marksut spam at four in the goddamn morning. Had to go and do research and shit to know what I'm even talking about. Not that fun/sweet tidbits didn't come out of that, mind you. This line taken from his Wiki page is both touching yet sad:

"[Marko Marin] was a part of Bremen's thrilling attack comprising Aaron Hunt and Mesut Özil, which lit up the Weserstadion. In the 2010–11 season, he showed his quality, scoring four league goals and providing 11 assists.

Following the departure of Özil to Real Madrid in August 2010, however, Marin's form dropped noticeably, as he notched only one goal and five assists during Bremen's 2011–12 Bundesliga campaign."

Marin's career, from what I can tell, has been a bit hit and miss. He's been called the "German Messi" (as has Mesut), and he has shone brightly on several occasions at club level, yet he struggled to make it on to the final squad. He succeeded twice (Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010) yet both times he was used mainly as a substitute and failed to keep his place on the national team after both tournaments. He currently plays for Chelsea. Oh, and he's the proud papa of his pug:

Congratulations, you've just booked yourself a place on my list of boinkable footballers based on this tweet alone.

Marko and Mesut only played at Werder Bremen together for a year before Mesut transferred to Real Madrid, but the two got on like a house on fire.

I would make a dirty joke about Marko's hand, but instead I'll just point it out and leave the rest up to your imaginations. Be creative!

Is Özil gonna hafta choke a bitch?

Guys on bikes make me go all putty in my pants. It's a Dutch thing, I guess.

And when one of them gets a flat tire ...

... plane it is then!

That one guy on the Werder Bremen PR team with insensitive sense of humor must have been wringing his hands together with glee when Marin joined the club. Oh, fun with height jokes!

How huggably tiny do you have to be to make Mesut look like a giant?

And here I was all proud of Holland being the first country to legalize gay marriage. But no, Germany just had to up the ante by sanctioning gay polygamy! They get certificates and everything!

But, of course, our boys aren't gay ~~outside of my midnight chocolate covered fantasies~~ and do enjoy the company of the womenfolk ...

(Oh, Anna Maria ... Somewhere Jenny still has a tear to shed in memory of you.)

Werder Bremen:

I hated it too when one of my friends came to school on class photo day wearing the same outfit! And then the teacher thought it was cute so she made us stand together and my friend's looking all like, "I told you I'd be wearing this today, you cow!" and I'm like, "Pssssh. Whatev. You're short and we're in the second row so no one will be seeing your outfit anyway."

Either these two are really vulnerable to sunlight, or they mastered synchronized bitch faces right quick.

Sleeveless pics are a bleak reminder as to why winter's the work of the Devil.

... What you say? There's no Marko in this pic? Dude, THIGH!! And ARMS!!

And speaking of thighs ...

"Coach, there's love afoot! Signal the others!"

"O" is for the only Özil I see ...

Die Mannschaft:

So THAT's the guy in the corner!

Feeling a little neglected, Marko? :(

Join in the fun!

Why do I get the feeling that Neuer's the mother hen of the group?

"Nah, don't be afraid of Holger: he always looks pissed!"

"You sure? He looks like he's about to punch Thomas just for talking to him!"

Awwww, we're nearing the end of the post and I have no (semi) NEKID Marksut-related Mesut pic for you guys ...
Oh, go on then. Have this one on the house!

(Gosh, he looks young here. Here's to hoping posting this won't put me on some list ... )

But as Mesut's international fame grew; as the praise and accolades flooded in, Marko felt more and more left behind ...

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. While Marko's World Cup 2010 performance didn't exactly take the world by storm, his other half's rampaging success meant that Mesut was swept up and away, all the way to Spain, into the arms of Khedira (and half of the Real dressing room). Nothing was as it was. Every time Marko would walk into the locker room there would be no shy grin to greet him. On the field he felt disconnected from the rest, his heart bleeding as he wished he would look up and see Mesut spiritedly sprinting alongside him towards the hapless defense. After bravely struggling to carry the legacy of Marksut at Werder Bremen on his slender, tired shoulders, he found it too painful a memory to bear alone. He traveled far to escape his past, across the waters to a distant arcane land, where he was welcomed by the Blue Clan into their eclectic mix. But even as he tried to mend his broken heart and soul he could never forget his crinkly-eared companion and he knew that never would he find true love such as that again--

Daaaaaaaaaammmmmmnnnnn, you do recover nicely, don't you, Marko? But I must ask, though, where does this flourishing connection stem from? I'm positive Marko and Fernando are, by nature, two lovably pleasant guys who make friends easily, and yet the cynical side of me wonders whether there's a not-so-hidden motive behind their budding friendship? Spanish national player linking up with a former Werder Bremen player, eh ... ?