Original sentence: The first person of Turkish descent to play for the Germany national football team was Mehmet Scholl in 1993, followed by Mustafa Doğan in 1999 and Malik Fathi in 2006
Edited sentence: 24 million followers, İlkay Gündoğan, Emre Can and Hakan Çalhanoğlu).In the Bundesliga (highest German football league) club squads of the season 2020-2021 there were 20 players from Germany with roots in Turkey:.In this case it is way more difficult to get a nomination for the German national team and it also happens much rarely.The main reason why there are more footballers who played for Turkey is that the football level in Germany is much higher than in Turkey.The person of Turkish descent to play for the Germany national football team was Mehmet Scholl in 1993, followed by Mustafa Doğan in 1999 and Malik Fathi in 2006.There are four German-Turkish players with more than 2 million followers on Instagram (Mesut Özil who has ca.ten of them played games for the German national youth team U21, U20 or U19 in the last years (Salih Özcan, Levin Öztunalı, Can Bozdogan, Mehmet-Can Aydın, Kerim Çalhanoğlu, Levent Mercan, Marvin Obuz, Eren Dinkçi, Kaan Kurt and Emrehan Gedikli).three of them are German national players (Emre Can, Suat Serdar, Kerem Demirbay).three of them are Turkish national players (Ömer Toprak, Ahmed Kutucu, Yunus Malli).two of them  have not played any games for any national team yet (Atakan Karazor and Berkan Taz).two of them played games for the Turkish U17 in the past (Samed Onur and Cem Türkmen, but last one has said he would prefer to play for Germany)