MUSLIM SOCCER PLAYER

when i read what rizal hashim wrote in his blog bout kanoute, im feel proud. then i think i should try to find more bout this matter... we all know that soccer/football really make all races and religion stand together. Yes it still have an islamophobia in soccer but let all of us make Dua/DOa that it will gone away.. hopfully i can do this Find an article bout our brothers in the field (soccer/football)...

in random order...


FREDERIC OUMAR KANOUTE

a sevilla player, read here
http://rizalhashim.blogspot.com/2011/08/bersama-kanoute-di-masjidil-haram.html
and more bout him at
www.kanoute.com

Here read Aljazeera news with a title: kanoute facing palestine shirt fine: Sevilla striker scores yellow card after revealing palestine shirt during game...
are more stories that relate to kanoute… I’m really respect u sir…  its really interpreted his love n devotee to his religion… Even in Malaysia, an Islamic country, not many player brave enough to show their opinion bout this matter…

A matter bout Palestine …

NICOLAS SEBASTIEN ANELKA

im a fan of Chelsea... Chelsea chelsea.. Hihihi... and knowing that anelka is here is a really great feeling to me.. Im really admire Anelka, once is famous with a badboy title... have been a player for another great club like arsenal n real madrid.

wikipedia quote:

Abdul-Salam Bilal is also a french international,who plays as a striker for chelsea. Former Chelsea manager carlo ancelotti has described him as a quick player with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball.

Anelka began his career at PSG, and then t Gunners. won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award the following season. Real Madrid signed him for £22.3 million in 1999, a record fee at the time, but he did not settle in well and returned to PSG. he went on loan to Liverpool in January 2002 but joined Manchester city  for £13 million at the start of the 2002–03 season.

After three seasons in Manchester, he moved to Turkey club Fenerbache for two seasons and after that joining Bolton. He transferred to Chelsea from Bolton for a reported £15 million in January 2008.

Still a very good player and im respect him a lot because playing in England and being a Muslim is not easy. There are so much intolerance and stigmas against Muslim people. 

TOURE BROTHERS

Ashley Cole (at arsenal) was once asked what had been the strangest thing he had seen in football. His response was, “Kolo (Toure) praying in the dressing room on his prayer mat.”
In response in this statement when asking by press, Kolo, he smiled and said it was his duty to show what Islam is to his team mates. “I have to explain my religious beliefs and practice all the time and I give back to my religion through this”
“I am what I am because of my religion. It changed my life and I am really happy to be a Muslim. We have many Muslim players at the club now – Abou Diaby, Bakary Sagna, and we all go to the mosque to pray together after training,” Kolo Toure tells Sports Editor of The Muslim News, Zeeshan Akhtar, in an exclusive interview (at this moment Kolo still an arsenal player).

Kolo (Habib) toure once  Arsenal centre back and now Machester City player  was raised in the Ivory Coast and played for ASEC Mimosas before he was bought by the Gunners. Toure is a practicing Muslim, as are his family, and has previously stated his desire to become a role model for young British Muslims

like his older brother Yaya Toure born on May 13, 1983 also a defensive midfielder. He became the first player from Ivory Coast, who plays for Barcelona. At tahat time in Barcelona, there is two other Muslim soccer players, they are Seydou Keita and Eric Abidal. Now Yaya is a teammate of Kolo at Eastland. They are also has a younger brother named Ibrahim who currently plays for Egyptian side Makasa.

Kolo and  Yaya is also good to read Qur'an and often send donations for poor children in Côte d'Ivoire. Yaya was named by Eurosport in 2005 as one of the most promising young players in the world.

When Kolo arrived in Manchester in the summer of 2009 following his £14 million transfer from Arsenal to Manchester City, As a committed Muslim, he research and located a mosque in the shadow of Old Trafford where he could practise his faith. So devout is that he spent the build-up to his first Manchester derby against United in September 2009 observing Ramadan.


As a child growing up in Abidjan, Touré and his younger brother Yayawould polish the shoes of businessmen in order to earn money for his parents and siblings. The two brothers continue to send money back to their family in the Ivory Coas.


How Kolo copes during the blessed month of Ramadan. “The first ten days are tough, but the body gets used to it after that. I don’t fast when playing because it’s dangerous but I make them up afterwards.”
Kolo always donates a substantial amount of money to the development of the local mosque. He seems happy and content to donate and help people wherever and whenever he can

Mesut Ozil

born 1988 is a real Madrid n German national team player. He was nominated for the 2010 Golden Ball Award which is awarded to the World Cup best player. Ozil began his youth career playing for various clubs in Gelsenkirchen and then played five years for Rot-Weiss Essen. After that for Schalke 04, On 17 August 2010 Werder Bremen announced that they had reached an agreement with Real Madrid. The transfer fee is believed to be in the region of €15 million.
On 17 August 2011, Ozil was sent off in the last minute of the second leg of the 2011 Supercopa de Espana after an altercation with David Villa and romuors said it is bout religion
Ozil always recites the Quran before his matches. Talking to the Berlin-based daily Der Tagesspiegel, Ozil said, "I always do that before I go out (on the pitch). I pray and my team-mates know that they cannot talk to me during this brief period.