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Muslim Player Soccer (Football)
Muslim Player Soccer (Football)
Muslim Player Soccer (Football)
Thats the updated list of Muslim Footballers for this year in the Barclays Premier League.
Belgium
This Belgium team has some very good world-class players in their squad.
Midfielders: Nacer Chadli (Tottenham), Mousa Dembele (Tottenham), Marouane Fellaini (Man
United), Adnan Januzaj (Manchester United).
Bosnia-Hercegovina
There should no surprises if a lot or all of the Bosnian players are muslims, as they are a
predominantly muslim country.
Update: thanks to Mahmud, most of the Bosnian Players in the team are Muslim.
Goalkeepers: Asmir Begovic (Stoke City), Asmir Avdukic (Borac Banja Luka), Jasmin Fejzic (VFR
Aalen).
Defenders: Emir Spahic (Bayer Leverkusen), Sead Kolasinac (Schalke), Ermin Bicakcic (Eintracht
Braunschweig), Muhamed Besic (Ferencvaros), Mensur Mujdza (Freiburg).
Midfielders: Miralem Pjanic (Roma), Izet Hajrovic (Galatasaray), Haris Medunjanin
(Gaziantepspor), Senad Lulic (Lazio), Anel Hadzic (Sturm), Tino Susic (Hajduk), Sejad Salihovic
(Hoffenheim), Senijad Ibricic (Erciyesspor), Avdija Vrsaljevic (Hajduk).
Strikers: Vedad Ibisevic (VfB Stuttgart), Edin Dzeko (Manchester City), Edin Visca (Istanbul BB).
France
France has many North African descendants, there are a lot of muslim players from France who
are playing in various leagues around the world. With the omission of Samir Nasri from the
French squad and Bilal Ribery injured; lets have a look at how many muslims footballers have
made it in the France squad for World cup 2014.
Algeria
Will you be surprised if the entire squad is Muslim?
Goalkeepers: Rais Mbolhi (CSKA Sofia), Cedric Si Mohamed (CS Constantine), Mohamed
Lamine Zemmamouche (USM Alger).
Defenders: Essaid Belkalem (Watford, on loan from Granada), Madjid Bougherra (Lekhwya Club),
Faouzi Ghoualm (Napoli), Rafik Halliche (Academica Coimbra), Aissa Mandi (Stade Reims),
Djamel Mesbah (Livorno), Mehdi Mostefa (AC Ajaccio).
Midfielders: Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham), Yasine Brahimi (Granada), Medhi Lacen (Getafe),
Saphir Taider (Inter Milan), Hassan Yebda (Udinese).
Forwards: Abdelmoumene Djabou (Club Africain), Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia), Nabil Ghilas
(Porto), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Islam Slimani (Sporting Lisbon, Portugal), Hilal Soudani
(Dinamo Zagreb).
Ghana
Another African nation which has a good population of muslims in their country. The Ayew
brothers, despite having names which are not traditional muslim names are actually muslim.
Iran
Iran should have an all muslim squad because they are a muslim country.
Goalkeepers: Alireza Haghighi (Sporting Covilha, on loan from Rubin Kazan), Rahman Ahmadi
(Sepahan).
Defenders: Hossein Mahini (Persepolis), Pejman Montazeri (Umm Salal), Jalal Hosseini
(Persepolis), Amir-Hossein Sadeghi (Esteghlal), Ahmad Alenemeh (Naft), Hashem Beikzadeh
(Esteghlal), Mehrdad Pouladi (Persepolis).
Midfielders: Javad Nekounam (Kuwait SC), Reza Haghighi (Persepolis), Ghasem Haddadifar
(Zob Ahan), Bakhtiar Rahmani (Foolad), Ehsan Hajsafi (Sepahan).
Forwards: Ashkan Dejagah (Fulham), Masoud Shojaei (Las Palmas), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (NEC
Nijmegen), Reza Ghoochannejhad (Charlton), Karim Ansarifard (Tractor Saz, on loan from
Persepolis), Khosro Heydari (Esteghlal).
So there you have it! All of the muslim footballers competing in this years World cup in Brazil. In
total there are 87 98 of them from 10 teams spanning 3 Continents, no players are Muslim from
North America, South America and Australia in this years World Cup.