Ramadhan has been running a few days, Ramadhan is a month of fasting for the moslems. Fasting is an obligation for Moslem as well as for football players in European leagues. There are many football players who had a Moslem. While undergoing training and a rigorous game schedule and became the minority, many of whom still perform fasting.
This is an encouragement for us in implementing the fast. Besides being a trained service to keep our passions and concerns, fasting is also very useful for our health. I'm not going to write about the benefits of fasting, but just wanted to write about football players in European leagues is also a Moslem. They may also still be conducting their fasting. They are:
Name Club Nationality
LPF - Spanish League
Karim Benzema Real Madrid France
Lassana Diarra Real Madrid France
Mohamadou Diarra Real Madrid France
Yaya Toure Barcelona Côte d'Ivoire
Seydou Keita Barcelona Mali
Eric Abaidal Barcelona France
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Barcelona Sweden
Frederic Kanoute Sevilla Mali
Abdoulay Konko Sevilla France
Mohammed Tchite Racing Santander Burundi
Pascal Cygan Villarreal France
Premier League - English
Nicolas Anelka
(Abdul Salam Bilal) Chelsea France
Emmanuel Eboue Arsenal Côte d'Ivoire
Samir Nasri Arsenal France
Armand Traore Arsenal France
Salomon Kalou Chelsea Côte d'Ivoire
El Hadji Diouf Blackburn Rovers Senegal
Diomansy Kamara Fulham Senegal
Kolo Toure Man City Côte d'Ivoire
Abdoule Faye Stoke City Senegal
Ibrahima Sonko Stoke City Senegal
Papa Bouba Diop Portmount Senegal
Youne Kaboul Portmount France
Nadir Belhadj Portmount Algiers
Hameur Bouazza Birmingham Algiers
Nabil El Zhar Liverpool Morocco
Bundesliga - German
Franck Riberry Bayern Muencen France
Hamit Antiltop Bayern Muencen Turkey
Halil Antiltop Schalke 04 Turkey
Karim Ziani Vfl Wolfsburg Algiers
Ashkan Dejagah Vfl Wolfsburg Iran
Khalid Boulahrouz Vfb Stuttgart Netherlands
Sami Khedira Vfb Stuttgart German
Serder Tasci Vfb Stuttgart German
Mohamed Zidan Borusia Dortmund Egypt
Mohamed El Yaagoubi Real Sociedad Morocco
Eredivisie - Netherlands
Ibrahim Afellay PSV Eindhoven Netherlands
Ismail Aissati Ajax Netherlands
Miralem Sulejmani Ajax Serbia
Rachid Bouaouzan NEC Nijmegen Netherlands-Morocco
Tarik Elyounoussi SC Heerenveen Norway
Nuri Sahim Feyenoord France
Serie A - Italy
Hasan Salihamidzic Juventus Bosnian
Sulley Muntari Inter Milan Ghana
Mohammed Sissoko Juventus France
Mourad Meghni Lazio France
Samir Handanovic Udinese Slovenia
Blerim Dzemaili Torino Switzerland
Ahmed Barusso Siena Ghana
Ousmane Dabo Lazio France
Ligue 1 - France
Hatem Ben Arfa Olympique Marseille France
Djimi Traore AS Monaco Mali
Other League
Zlatan Muslimovic PAOK Saloniki Bosnian
Shefki Kuqi Ipswich Finland
Mohammed Camara St Mirren Guinea
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The Champions League draw always provides entertainment. Even though the random drawing and the whole ceremony is fairly boring, it’s always interesting because it always seems to draw clubs together that are related in some way. Sometimes they’ll gift a club with revenge against a club that knocked them out the year before, or other times provide a real group of death. This time, the interesting thing the Champions League draw did was bring Kaka and Zlatan Ibrahimovic back to Italy (and back to the San Siro more specifically). Yes, Kaka and Zlatan will face their former clubs for one game during the group stage and get to play in front of the fans that once idolized them. (Unless of course they are suspended or injured for the match, which makes this all moot.) Groups of the Italian teams after the jump.
Group A
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Bordeaux
Maccabi Haifa
Juventus got an ok group. Bayern Munich is their toughest opponent, while French champions Bordeaux could provide a tough test as well. Maccabi Haifa shouldn’t be a problem but away trips to Israel are never easy.
Group C
Milan
Real Madrid
Marseille
Zurich
Milan were handed a favorable group. Real Madrid aside, Marseille and Zurich shouldn’t provide big scares for the Rossoneri.
Group E
Liverpool
Lyon
Fiorentina
Debrecen
Fiorentina have a rematch with Lyon and have the tough task of facing Liverpool. Debrecen will probably be the group punching bag. Fiorentina’s matches with Lyon will be crucial as Liverpool will be tough.
Group F
Barcelona
Inter
Dynamo Kiev
Rubin Kazan
Inter get to face old friend Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and then face two Eastern European sides, and we all know how those winter trips to Russia and the Ukraine can be.
Maurizio Berretta became Chairman Calcio League that was new. Former Director Confindustria this will become the leader in 36 sheltering clubs was supervised relieved calcio. The club that was protected by him was 19 clubs from Series-A and 17 clubs from Series-B. where during the election himself won the vote that was picked up from 40 delegations of the club that was present.
Voting box obtained from a majority vote for him and with one voice on behalf of the Italian Football Federation president Giancarlo Abete (FIGC), where he had served three months as extraordinary commissioner of the Calcio League
With results of this voting, after President Juventus left the Relieved Calcio headquarters in Milan, Gigli expressed satisfaction. "Finally we have also new rules which are starting with a new conclave, which is a sign of the evolution of body Calcio League. We need a wise leader in the Calcio League and now we've got it".
Fiorentina booked their place in the Champions League group stage on away goals.
The Viola were held to a 1-1 draw by Sporting Lisbon in Florence but because of the two away goals they scored in Portugal.
The first leg in Lisbon ended in a 2-2 draw and the Viola had some anxious moments tonight after Sporting took a 35th-minute lead with Joao Moutinho's free-kick.
The hosts, who mustered little in the opening half, came to life after the restart mainly due to the play of substitute Stevan Jovetic.
Jovetic replaced Massimo Gobbi after the break and scored the equaliser in the 54th minute.
The visitors controlled possession and had the first chance on 12 minutes.
An unmarked Yannick Djalo surged inside the area and struck just wide of Fiorentina goalkeeper Sebastien Frey's far post.
Shortly after, Matias Fernandez warmed the hands of Frey with a stinging free-kick which the keeper saved.
With Fiorentina unable to put a good move together due to Sporting's well-placed defence, it was the Portuguese who looked more deadly.
Midway through the first half, Frey was again called into action and was forced to dive to the near post to clear Miguel Veloso's powerful free-kick.
But there was little Frey could do to stop Moutinho's curled free-kick towards the far post as Sporting took a deserved lead.
Fiorentina reacted and Adrian Mutu tried his luck from distance but his effort was off target.
Jovetic had Fiorentina's first real chance early in the second half with the forward latching onto Riccardo Montolivo's cross and firing just inches wide of the far post.
It wasn't long after that the substitute hit the back of the net. Jovetic's angled strike from the left side of the area beat Sporting goalkeeper Rui Patricio.
Sporting reacted quickly with Moutinho forcing Frey to make a good save.
Shortly after the hour mark, Juan Vargas' left-footed volley went high over the bar as Fiorentina pursued a second goal.
In the 70th minute, Frey had to come off his line as an unmarked Bruno Pereirinha threatened with a surge into the area.
With time running out, the Portuguese pushed all of their players forward in search of a winner.
Frey and the Fiorentina defence held firm with the goalkeeper punching away Liedson's desperate header in the final moments of the game.[www.espnstar.com]
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has risked undermining new coach Leonardo before the city derby by saying he prefers a different formation to the one used by the Brazilian.
Milan won 2-1 at Siena on Saturday in their Serie A opener with the impressive Ronaldinho playing behind frontmen Alexandre Pato and Marco Borriello.
However, Berlusconi wants to see Ronaldinho pushed further forward for Saturday's meeting with champions Inter Milan, who were held 1-1 at home by Bari on Sunday.
"If I was choosing the formation, I would play Clarence Seedorf in the hole, Pato as the main striker with Ronaldinho as second striker," the Italian prime minister told 7 Gold television late on Monday.
New striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar is available for the derby after serving a ban against Siena carried over from his time at Real Madrid.
Inter are close to a deal for Real playmaker Wesley Sneijder, media reports have said, with the Dutchman possibly starting the derby after coach Jose Mourinho questioned Sulley Muntari's fitness given the Ghanaian's commitment to Ramadan.[Reuters]
Commented Jose Mourinho the Ramadan matter that was connected with the physical condition for the football player received the criticism. A Moslem group in Italia, Union for the Communities and Organisations of Islamic in Italy (UCOII), considered the coach Inter Milan has spoken apart from the limit.
"I thought Mourinho should not often speak." The religious Islamic player did not appear weaker in the field. We knew if the medicine in the world of sport but also the mental stability as well as psychology knowledge could make the player appear good, said the leader UCOII Mohamed Nour Dachan to La Repubblica.
What was said by Dachan was the reaction from the Mourinho explanation concerning his attitude interesting went out Sulley Muntari in the first round in the Inter opener fight the end last week.
"Muntari had the problem that be connected with Ramadan." Possibly when the hot weather was not good for him fasted. Ramadan came when that was inexact for the player, said Mourinho that time.
Muntari from Ghana fasted when his team competed against Bari. He was attracted outside Mourinho in the minute to-29
Samuel Eto'o says Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola never told him why he was sold to Inter Milan.
The Cameroon striker moved to Inter as part of the deal that took Zlatan Ibrahimovic the other way despite scoring more than 30 goals for Barcelona last season, including the opener in the Champions League final win against Manchester United.
"I was waiting to be told the reason why they wanted me to go, but there wasn't one," Eto'o said Sunday on French television. "I never got an answer and I'm not waiting for one anymore. For me, it's over."
Eto'o achieved the rare feat of scoring in two Champions League finals, having also found the net in the 2-1 win over Arsenal in 2006. He scored more than 100 league goals in five seasons with the Catalan club.
"I would never criticize a coach if another player is better than me," the 28-year-old Eto'o said. "But it's what you do on the field that matters. And until there is proof to the contrary, I deserved to play every Sunday."
Eto'o now hopes to impress Inter coach Jose Mourinho.
"The coach wanted me for several years," Eto'o said. "I spoke to him two or three times on the phone and it was easy to make my decision after that."[msn.foxsports.com]
