Moslem Footballer And Ramadhan At Europe

There is a little different in Ramadan this year compared to Ramadan in previous years for the footballers who graze in the European leagues.

If in the previous year  Ramadan arrived right in the middle of the competition, this year the month of Ramadan comes at a time when they're off duty periods if there is competition, the match was only a friendship or a Tour. At least for 1 week in  Ramadan, footballers who want to carry out fasting will not get a hitch weight of his job.

Before this, the muslim footballers who wanted to run a compulsory fasting worship always stuck with the professionalism of its work. A wide range of reasons that appear either from the private or from the club where he worked. It is true that not all of those who feel it, no vote still run the obligation of fasting even though he knows the heavy consequences which will be faced with either of the clubs or leagues.

There is also a League that pays attention to the existence of muslim soccer player in the country, here the Assembly of Clergy, leagues, clubs, and players get the relief decision all parties in the coming month of Ramadan. The Club was not harmed and the player can still run the obligation.

Not easy for a muslim to live and earn a living in non-muslim countries, is associated with football. They are faced with the imperative of maintaining stamina, needs a urine test if needed after the match to prove the absence of doping, and how they are looking for kosher food in countries that, here are a few examples of their case:

- Stephen Appiah: at the beginning of his career in Italy, the country's grazing Appiah had difficulty in finding kosher restaurants.

- Frederic Kanoute: Sevilla because uniform use of Refuse is sponsored by home gambling, even when the uniform was used, Kanoute cover it with black plaster. In 2007, he never issued money of US $ 700,000 from his personal pockets to save a mosque in Sevilla with a way to buy it a mosque the previous status is rent, because it is the only mosque in the city's mosque where he dam other Muslims worship.

- Christian Negouai: he was elected as a mandatory doping test and urine sample should be taken. Because Negouai fast then the urine it does not want to come out, Kevin Keegan (Manchester City Manager at the time) Thrusting water to drink so that his urine could be out soon, but turned it down because he remains Negouai was being fast. Negouai chose to pay a fine of 2,000 pounds from his pocket rather than having to invalidate the fast.

– According to Reuters, Samir Nasri and Kolo Toure for the sake of maintainingstamina, choose suspend the fast while in season. This is also due to the severity of exercise they should get more money when they are fasting.

- Abdelkader Ghezzal: Choose not run the fasting on the day of the match Siena as the weather of Europe in a very difficult summer, during the day will be longer than the rest of the night, the Sun would appear to be more than 13 hours, specifically in Italy temperatures can reach 35-40 degrees Celsius, with the Sun recently completely submerged at around 8 pm local time.

- Kolo Toure claiming to ever try to remain abstinent, but strenuous exercise conditions force it cancel their fast. "But I would definitely replace it in another monthor day. It is a consequence as a muslim, "said Toure.

Living in the midst of the many football industry will lure, a muslim footballers across Europe tested provision of his heart to still live according to the teachings of Islam, and if they succeed it becomes the secret key to why muslim footballers rarely his personal life is troubled. And it's also making games they tend to be stable as well as the emotion on the pitch always awake. Many muslim footballers that are consistent with Islam claimed to find serenity in life, a source of strength and peace in Islam,these include:

1. Frederic Oumar Kanoute: keep running when fasting Ramadan despite having to play for 90 minutes, and temperatures could reach 40 degrees Celsius. Last year in the month of Ramadan in Europe during the day time is longer than the night, the sun shines for 13 hours from 6.30 am to 8 pm. And the match is usually held two hours prior to the time of breaking the fast.

2. Rami Shaaban: football player who follow the teachings of Islam, istiqamah routinely examine the Quran and made the Quran guides in live his life. Sweden national team goalkeeper is always recite some verses before a match.

3. Kolo Toure: feeling as a muslim he should respect others. The success of himself always said thanks to his prayer to God.

4. Franck Ribery: Converted after marrying a girl of French Morocco. Has the name of Islam, namely Frank Bilal Ribery. He thinks that Islam brought him in safety. Islam became the source of its strength inside and outside the field. At the moment he is experiencing hard times in his career, Islam came gives peace. Ribery admitted as a muslim who never leave the compulsory prayer 5 times.

5. Nicolas Anelka: Converts who converted to Islam in Turkey Club Fenerbache. Has the name of Islam, namely Abdul-Salam Bilal. In an interview published in a French publication magazine Match, Anelka said, "Islam is the source of my strength both inside and outside the field. I underwent a tough career. I then decided to find peace.And finally I found Islam. " Anelka still run fast 1 full moon even though in the middle of the competition.

6. Momo Sissoko as well as Sulley Muntari: they are a muslim who still choose fasting in the month of Ramadan although there are matches.

7. Mahamadou Diarra and Anthar Yahia (Bochum): Choose still fast, according to him, instead of fasting gives strength to overcome adversity.

8. Mehdi Mahdavikia (Eintracht Frankfurt): do not experience barriers means the time of Ramadan. Players who are now 32 year old organized her diet was such that it was able to live the game matches the League's hard in Germany (Bundesliga). "I always eat and drink a lot of the time of Suhoor. With no time to drink morning and eveningis not influential for me, "said Mahdavikia. Undergo fasting and play in one of the League's hard in Europe, recognized Mahdavikia is very heavy. But, exercise twice a day do not interfere with the right wing and the quarter back steps Iran at the 1998 World Cup and the 2006.

A few years back in Germany, a muslim country gets a hitch fast in Ramadan, even for FSV Frankfurt (Division II Club Bundesliga) implemented a ban on fasting, and it is there in their employment contract clause. Clubs reasoned that a player must still have good stamina every day for practice and matches.

To answer these problems the Agency Germany Football League (DFL) and the Central Council of Muslims of Germany (Central Council of Muslims) sought advice from Al-Azhar University which is the leading institution of Islamic theology. Eventually Al-Azhar issued a statement that, "during Ramadan a muslim who are fasting fasting is permitted if it is reasonably interfere with their performance."

And similar statements issued by any body of Fatwa and research European Muslims, "A muslim who competed during Ramadan should not need to run fast and replace at other times. Furthermore, maintaining the body's health is one of the tenets of Islam, "said Secretary General of the muslim representative body for Germany, Aiman Mazyek Bild was quoted as saying.

Now live returned to the footballers such as Franck Ribery, Serdar Tasci and coauthors, whether they want to continue running a month-long fast or fast only on certain days when no training and matches.

But for the players of  FC Koln, Adil Chichi and Youssef Mohamad contended that fasting does not make a motion we are limited, easily tired and so on. The fast they have run over the years so that meraka understand the reactions of their body.Christopher Lymberopoulos FC Cologne, a spokesman said, "they did what they always do, exercising their religious beliefs while working as a professional athlete."

Some muslim soccer player in Europe was also a little lucky as it gets help from the Club to be fast in the middle of the competition. Netherlands League football club known to be very tolerant in this affair. PSV Eindhoven for example, through a team of doctors helping craft a special package menu for Ibrahim Afellay, Otman Bakkal and Nordin Amrabat and just give the lighter portion of the exercise.

For other clubs such as Ajax, fasting in the month of Ramadan even does not affect the performance of Ismail Aissati and Mounir El Hamdaoui-last name even contributed two goals while his club Ajax win 3-0 on wheels. "They are always fast, they know the reaction of her body and they always do what needs to be done, namely the running of worship and work as a professional footballer," said a club spokesman.

Jose Mourinho (former coach of Inter Milan) once commented about the poor performance of his men who were fasting, Sulley Muntari. "Muntari had problems related to Ramadan, perhaps with temperatures (hot weather) like this, Muntari was not supposed to be fasting. Ramadan does not come at the right time, especially for players who still have to play, "he added. In the after math of his words, Mourinho got a reprimand from a Community Organization of Islam in Italy (UCOII).

Mohamed Nour Dachan, head of UCOI says, "I think, Mourinho should not discuss this, a player who is Muslim and are running the fasting does not make him perform poorly on the field. We know that drugs in sport and mental stability as well as the psychological condition would make a player showing good performance. " Dachan added, "A Christian, a Jew or even a brand of Islam that has a calm mind, they will surely always showing good performance on the field."

According to the results of the research of the British Journal of Sports Medicine proved that Ramadan lose the appearance of footballers. During the fast, the players could not get water and nutrient intake during the day. As material for research in the British Journal of Sports Medicine took a sample of 55 players of Algeria at the end of Ramadan, as well two weeks later.

As a result, the appearance of the player it decreased very significantly, over 5% and it greatly affects the speed, endurance and dribble ability of the body. About 70 percent of the average player also mentions that Ramadan affect their appearance, either during play or practice. Therefore, the players ball should have a special strategy if it should be played in the time of Ramadan and fasting, if it decided not to fast is the correct resolution.

"Fasting is all about confidence, a spirit can conquer the mental and the physical, not the other way around. The abdomen may be hungry, the esophagus may be dry, and the body able to tremble when must run chase the ball in the field, but because the liver is already intending to fast, all felt the physical could finally be resolved at, "according to Kanoute.

"Personally, running religious guidance helps me in soccer and football also helps me stay healthy and powered. There is no conflict because people know about Islam,they know that fasting it even strengthens those who lived through it, and is not in factweaken the Muslims, fasting Ramadan thus made me increasingly glowing, "he added