Drawing on his own family’s experience, the Real Madrid and Germany defender is advocating for refugees and challenging stereotypes Drawing on his own family’s experience, the Real Madrid and Germany defender is advocating for refugees and challenging stereotypes A s a child, Antonio Rüdiger would look out of his bedroom window to see whether anyone was playing on the field it overlooked. It was not a big pitch, but it had two goals, enough room for six-a-side and was where a young Rüdiger