N.O.R.F Posted August 25, 2009 Originally posted by Paragon: ^But not in the UAE! Meeshaas waa tinaar baan maqley. Might give it a go on Fri IA. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuune Posted August 25, 2009 We have a football tournament next week, and I can't wait to play after two years of retirement. Best time for football is Ramadan, I think Norfoscky agrees with me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NGONGE Posted August 25, 2009 Originally posted by Norfsky: quote:Originally posted by Paragon: ^But not in the UAE! Meeshaas waa tinaar baan maqley. Might give it a go on Fri IA. Take a drive around the Sharjah neighbourhoods at middy and I guarantee that you will see kids playing football all over the place. That fainting feeling was great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faarax-Brawn Posted August 25, 2009 Yeah,even last time he fasted. I remember the egyptian team played in African cup of nations tournaments while fasting. The premise is that you get more thawab working. I think this is considered workin,right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cynical lady Posted August 26, 2009 Serie A - Muslim leader hits out at Mourinho One of those followers is Inter's Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari who Mourinho hauled off after just half an hour of Sunday's 1-1 home draw against Bari due to the former Portsmouth man's poor performance. Afterwards, Mourinho suggested Muntari had played badly due to a lack of energy associated with his fast. But Mohamed Nour Dachan, president of the Union of Islamic communities and organisations in Italy, claimed the coach has gotten it wrong. "I think Mourinho could do with talking a little less," he told Sky. "A practising (Muslim) player is not weakened because we know from the Institute of Sports Medicine that mental and psychological stability can give a sportsman an extra edge on the field. "A player who is a believing Christian, Jew or Muslim is certainly calmer psychologically and that improves his performance." That is an opinion that Mourinho did not share on Sunday and he was clearly irked with his player after the match. "Muntari had some problems related to Ramadan, perhaps with this heat it's not good for him to be doing this (fasting)," said Mourinho. "Ramadan has not arrived at the ideal moment for a player to play a football match." Mourinho even suggested that Muntari would be dropped for this weekend's crucial Milan derby due to his diminished condition, saying the club would try to work out a solution with its medical staff. Saturday's derby kicks off at 8.45pm local time, but with sundown occurring at just before 8pm, it would not give Muntari much time to rehydrate and get some energy into his body. Muntari is not the only player in Italy to be faced with this problem, although many other Muslim footballers choose not to practise Ramadan. Siena striker Abdelkader Ghezzal, who scored in the 2-1 defeat at home to Milan at the weekend, revealed he simply cannot fast and play at the same time. "I observe the fast during my days off, when there are no games or training," said the Algerian. "I've always observed Ramadan but I have had to change my habits for health reasons from the first year that I became a professional. "I was at Crotone (then in Serie C1 and now in Serie B) but after two weeks I felt ill and had to stop." Udinese's Swiss midfielder Gokhan Inler, a Muslim of Turkish origin, is another who is not fasting this month, while Genoa's Moroccan midfielder Houssine Kharja does respect Ramadan. Tellingly, both Ghezzal and Inler played 90 minutes at the weekend, Kharja never got off the bench. AFP See the comments the're something. From funmilola, on Wed 26 Aug 9:30AM Why do we all like making a mountain outta a molehill? I love what "emmavwatson" has said, God does not win football games and if a football player is deemed not fit to play because of his religious beliefs, he shouldn't just be benched, he should be banished to the dressing room and not even allowed to see the match. Is he being paid hundreds of thousaands of pounds to shirk his responsibility which is to play football by using fasting as an excuse? Is he the only muslim player in the world? why don't we all just be realistic and not turn this into a holy @#$% war? Just like someone commented earlier, because Mourinho has made this supposedly "blasphemous" comment, a bounty will be placed on his head for defiling Islam. If a footballer or any sportsman/woman at that wants to practice and obey the doctrines of his/her religion, they can very well do that in the privacy of their houses and not come out publicly, acting all holier-than-thou by showing their fellow brethren that they are indeed devout believers who, come rain or high water will worship their god and obey his religious doctrines. It is always the same @#$% same toilet when it comes to this very violent of religions ISLAM.... http://uk.eurosport. yahoo.com/25082009/5 8/serie-muslim-leade r-hits-mourinho.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted August 26, 2009 Mourinho talks too much. He is the manager who took a risk in playing Sulley. He is responsible. With the comments, I wouldn't expect non Muslims to understand his situation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
