Overview
- Özil and his wife, Amine, announced on Instagram Sunday that their third child is a daughter named Elisa.
- The couple shared two black-and-white photos and a short video, with the newborn’s face covered by a heart emoji.
- Elisa joins sisters Eda, born in March 2020, and Ela, whose birth the couple announced in September 2022.
- Some reports say the baby was born on April 2, though the parents waited until Easter Sunday to make the news public.
- Coverage notes his retreat from German football life after a 2018 photo with President Erdoğan and his reported 2025 seat on Erdoğan’s AKP party board, with outlets also split on whether former teammates publicly congratulated him.