muslim footballers in the premier league
August 26, 2009
As it is Ramadhan – the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the month of fasting, lets take a gander at the Muslim footballers playing in the Premier League.
Emmanuel Eboue
Samir Nasri
Robin van Persie
El Hadji Diouf
Nicolas Anelka
Salomon Kalou
Marouane Fellaini
Leon Osman
Emmanuel Adebayor
Kolo Toure
Other notables Muslim players elsewhere:
Freddy Kanoute
Franck Ribery
Yaya Toure
Zinedine Zidane
Can only confirm these players for you, not all are practising Muslims.
Ribery, van Persie and Anelka are converts.
Anyone else know any Muslim players?
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Ali Al Habsi- Bolton Goalkeeper.
Premier League World did a segment on him last year- I remember vaguely…. but part of the footage was Ali doing his daily prayers so I assume he’s practicing.
LUIS NANI
Eboue
Samir Nasri
Robin van Persie
El Hadji Diouf
Nicolas Anelka
Salomon Kalou
Marouane Fellaini
Leon Osman
Emmanuel Adebayor
Kolo Toure
Other notables Muslim players elsewhere:
Freddy Kanoute
Franck Ribery
Yaya Toure
Zinedine Zidane
luis nani
abue isnot real muslim his
Eboue
Samir Nasri
Robin van Persie
El Hadji Diouf
Nicolas Anelka
Salomon Kalou
Marouane Fellaini
Leon Osman
Emmanuel Adebayor
LUIS NANI
Mido? Who’s he playing for these days?
apparently hes back in egypt on a loan deal, after refusing to come back to boro.
amr zaki is another one.
Thierry Henry I believe. Someone told me whoever he gets in contact with converts. ie Half of Arsenal.
Ok, my knowledge of Islam is so great I just had to wikipedia to find out if alcohol is forbidden. It is.
Soooo just wondering what’s in Francky’s little glass here http://www2.2space.net/images/upl_newsImage/1191159780.jpg
Perhaps Alkoholfreie Deutsche Bier
Perhaps, its lighter in color. FC Bayern did a photoshoot today for a bier company and most of them had a bier in hand except for Franck.
check these pictures out, ribery getting his hajj on and oktoberfest.
lol check out the look on Luca Toni’s face!
Hajj looks kinda like a toga party.
paluiii ko katie
Please TRY, try to be respectful… It’s one of the most sacred events in our religion… There are certain reasons for dressing like that, do your research…
Karim Benzema
Mohammadou diara
Lassana Diara
Siedou Kieta
Yaya toure
Eric abidal
Oops didnt read Premier leagur :P
Sanli Tuncay (Middlesbrough)
Armand Traore (Arsenal-Pompey)
Nabil El Zahr (Liverpool)
Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan)
Ben Arfa (Marseille)
Khalid Boulahrouz (Stuttgart)
Happy Eid Mubarak for Muslims here.
Haha how could you mistake Eboue and Adebayor for muslims, I mean they are probably the biggest and most open Christians in the league :)
Anyways only speaking from what I’ve read I think Van Persie isn’t really practicing seeing he converted for his wife but on the other hand I think Nasri is.
the internet told me they were muslims lol. plus, i remember an article about him praying and the picture was similar to the one in this post. anyway, should have known with a name like emmanuel.
and yes, van persie is a non-practising muslim convert.
suley muntari of inter milan
rubinho the goalkeeper of palermo
fred the ex-striker of olympique lyon
momo sissoko of juventus
altintop of bayern munchen(you can see him in the hajj picture with ribery)
Lorik Cana in Sunderlan is too muslim
Fredie Kanoute -sevilla
Lorik Cana? Nice! He’s incredibly handsome.
lorik cana is muslims ok
lorik cana is muslims ok po po musliman osht
@katie
u shld be ashamed of urself calling such a Holy and sacred event a party… get real girl!!!
If you take issue with the fact that to my eye, that photo LOOKS similar to one you’d see of a toga party, that’s your problem. I’m definitely not – nor ever will be – ashamed of saying that. That Hajj photo also LOOKS like depictions of the Roman forum.
Whereas we try to not be offensive to reasonable people here at WDKF, a caveat to the hyper-sensitive: this site may not be for you….It is a hybrid of football and humor.
try to be respectful to someones religion.SHAME ON YOU
u shld be ashamed of urself calling such a Holy and Sacred event a party… get real girl!!!
Zemmama up at Hibs in SPL too
Karem Benzema?? is he a muslim??
@Katie..as its aa Fotball and un forum as you say, my comment 2 you is : if thats a picture of you, it says all, you are as blond as dumb and probably the only interests you have are checking the players instead of the game and looking in the mirror.
“Women” like you are more effective to make me throw up than using my finger…but hey, its all fun, isnt it!!?
Back to Subject, i went thru the names and..i doubt that 5% of them could be called muslims cause a muslim is by action and not by name.
Examble, Anelka Coverted in 2004 but i read an interview where he says he doesnt practice Ramadan cause he gets injured afterwards..what an excuse.
Totally. I’m such an “infidel.” :-/ Thanks so much for making me see the error of my ways.
Katie your right it does look like some guys in a Toga party, it is what you associate with and there is nothing wrong with that at all. Some guys out there are just hung about how people think or how people visualise something. I’m sure you meant no harm. I am a muslim and your comment made me smile. Those in glass houses should not throw stones.
ps Owen Hargreaves!!!!!! United! United!
arsenal player bacray sagna
Felippe melo, eric abidal, and samr handanovic are muslim players..
Sergio on barcelona, I believe he’s a muslim
ok guys katie may have taken the picture in the wrong way but you do not need to keep going on about it anyone can make a mistake
Edin Dzeko (Wolfsburg)
Miralem Pjanic (Lyon)
Vedad Ibisevic and Sejad Salihovic (Hoffenheim)
Asmir Begovic ex. goalkeeper of Portsmouth now in Stoke City
Emir Spahic Montpellier
http://i49.tinypic.com/2upefma.jpg
This is also Bosnian player on the national team game…
Safet Nadarevic playing in Turkey
http://img257.imageshack.us/ifs/6082/img44/4/fatiha1yh3.jpg
van Persie is not. Here was his answer on dutch-football.com:
“It’s not true. I am not a Muslim, nor a Christian or a Jew. I have been raised liberally. If you want to become a Muslim it should come from the heart. I would not do it just to please my wife.”
Robin van Persie. he is Atheist
Its great to see so many muslim players…but i do hope they really practising Islam as Way Of Life.
I do really enjoy reading this blog…nice…
@ kate before after he was converted
Ramadhan is coming up shortly, let’s see which one is practising Fasting. Thank you for this Blog.