“Every time I had a manager that was not happy with it, I just say listen, I’ll do it. “People said it was because of Ramadan, I just said it’s because I was joining a new team,” he said in the 2013 BBC documentary The Muslim Premier League. Ba disagreed with his coach’s assessment. The practice poses a major problem in top-flight football, where clubs invest hundreds of millions of dollars in players and every aspect of their daily routines is microscopically examined and managed. “Footballers have to start the day off fasting and then, if they are coming to a moment where the physical exertion makes them ill or they are about to suffer clinical dehydration, they may break their fast depending on how dangerous it is.” Sri Lanka is still neglecting its displaced Muslims.“The ruling for a person to not fast is the same for footballers and non-footballers alike,” says Abu Eesa Niamatullah, a scholar who is based in Manchester, England, and has studied Islamic jurisprudence. Special exemptions are made for children, the elderly, those who are physically or mentally incapable of fasting, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and travellers.įor the vast majority of Muslim scholars, athletes do not automatically qualify for an exemption. Fasting during Ramadan is obligatory for all able-bodied Muslims. Fasting takes their sharpness away,” Pardew said in a post-match interview.Ī devout Muslim, Ba partakes in the annual custom of abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset throughout the ninth month in the Muslim calendar. When Senegalese striker Demba Ba got off to a slow start with Newcastle United after joining them in July 2011, his coach, Alan Pardew, blamed it on his decision to fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window).Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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