On Sunday, the team will travel to Gothenburg, Sweden, where the tournament will take place. “This is the very highest stage,” says the debuting Öztürk. “And I am the striker, I have to score the goals.” Öztürk is not completely deaf, but hard of hearing. During the game, however, he has to take off his hearing aid. “Then I, like everyone else in the field, hear nothing at all. That’s the fairest.”
Utrecht duo active in Champions League for the deaf: ‘Our referee does not have a whistle, but a flag’
