LIST OF MUSLIM FOOTBALLERS

I'm so proud to share this info with everyone out there. There are actually a lot of muslim footballers currently and most of them are well known and famous...below is the list of the footballers that you may not know...

• Sulley Muntari-Ghanaian footballer who plays for Serie A club Internazionale in Italy. He is a central midfielder.

• Yaya Touré-Is an Ivorian footballer who currently plays for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona.

• Frédéric Kanouté-Is a French-born Malian footballer, who currently plays for Sevilla FC in the Spanish La Liga.

• Kolo Touré^[2]-Is a player who currently plays for English Premier League club Manchester City and the Ivorian national team.

• Hasan Salihamidžić -Is a Bosnian football midfielder currently playing for Italian Serie A club Juventus F.C.

• Mahamadou Diarra-Is a Malian footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid.

• Mohammed Abdellaoue-Norwegian football forward of Moroccan descent. Abdellaoue currently plays for Norwegian Premier League side Vålerenga.

• Nicolas Anelka Is a French footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League side Chelsea and the France national team.

• Arouna Koné - Is an Ivorian football striker who currently plays for Sevilla FC of the Spanish La Liga and the Côte d'Ivoire national football team.

• Mehdi Mahdavikia - Iranian football player who plays for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga.

• Ibrahim Touré - Ivorian football striker, he currently plays for Syrian Premier League outfit Al-Ittihad.

• El Hadji Diouf - Senegalese footballer. He plays for Blackburn Rovers, having previously played for Liverpool, Sunderland, Bolton Wanderers and Lens.

• Yakubu Aiyegbeni - Nicknamed "The Yak" and generally known as simply Yakubu, is a Nigerian footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Everton in the English Premier League.

• Mamady Sidibe - Malian football striker, currently playing for English Premier League side Stoke City .

• Joseph-Désiré Job - French-born Cameroonian footballer striker who is currently a free-agent. He also plays for the Cameroon national team.

• Ali Daei - Former Iranian football player and coach. He is a former captain of the Iran national football team, and is the world's all-time leading goalscorer in International matches.

• Taye Taiwo - Nigerian football defender who currently plays for Olympique de Marseille.

• Darijo Srna - Croatian footballer who currently plays for FC Shakthar Donetsk and the Croatian national football team.

• Philippe Troussier - Former French football player and now a manager.

• Franck Ribéry - French football midfielder who plays for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.

• Samir Nasri - French international footballer of Algerian descent who currently plays his club football for the English Premier League side Arsenal.

• Khalid Boulahrouz - Dutch footballer of Berber Moroccan Rif descent, who plays for the Netherlands and VfB Stuttgart. His nickname is "Khalid the Cannibal" for his ability to "eat up" his opposition.

• Hatem Ben Arfa - French footballer of Tunisian descent who plays for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille.

• Éric Abidal - French footballer who currently plays as a left back for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona and the French national team.

• Hamit Altıntop - German-born Turkish national footballer. He is a versatile midfielder and can play either in a defending or attacking role. He is well known for his flair of long-shot ability, as shown when he played for Schalke 04 and so far with Bayern Munich.

• Tuncay Şanlı - Turkish footballer who plays for Middlesbrough.

• Serdar Tasci - German football defender who plays for VfB Stuttgart and the German national football team.

• Sami Khedira - German footballer who plays for VfB Stuttgart.

• [[Ahmed Hossam Hussein Mido]] - Egyptian footballer who plays for El Zamalek as a striker, on loan from Middlesbrough.

• Mohamed Shawky - He plays the Defensive midfielder position for the Football League Championship club Middlesbrough as well as Egypt's national football team.

• Mohamed Zidan - Egyptian footballer who is a striker for German club Borussia Dortmund and the Egyptian national football team.

• Amr Zaki - Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a striker and is currently signed to Egyptian Premier League club El Zamalek.

• Zinedine Zidane - Born 23 June 1972 in Marseille), popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former professional footballer. He played for club teams in France, Italy and Spain, and was a member of the French national football team.

• Mohamed Sissoko - French-born Malian footballer who is currently playing for Juventus of the Italian Serie A and the Malian national football team.

• Hakan Yakin - Swiss footballer who plays for Swiss Super League FC Lucerne and the Swiss national football team.

• Abou Diaby - French international footballer of Ivorian descent currently playing for Arsenal

• Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye - Senegalese footballer who currently plays for Stoke City in the Premier League.

• Abdoulaye Méïté - French-born Ivorian footballer who joined West Bromwich Albion on 10 August 2008.

• Leon Osman - English-Turkish Cypriot professional football player currently playing for Everton.

• Marouane Fellaini^[16]- Belgian footballer currently playing for Premier League side Everton and the Belgium national team.

• Robin Van Persie - Dutch footballer who currently plays for Arsenal in the Premier League.

• Nabil El Zhar - French- born Moroccan footballer who currently plays for Liverpool in the Premier League.

• Marouane Chamakh - is a French-born Moroccan football player who plays for Bordeaux as a striker

• Zesh Rehman - is a British-born Pakistani football player who plays for Bradford City as a defender

• Bouna Coundoul- Senegalese football goalkeeper, currently playing for Major League Soccer side Red Bull New York.

and lot more actually~ :)