Ingatkah anda pada berita mengenai seorang pemain bola sepak Frederic Kanoute yang menayangkan baju tertera perkataan PALESTINA selepas menjaringkan gol untuk pasukannya?
Saya terbaca tentang berita mengenai beliau di IslamOnline.net. Wah, kagum rasanya dengan beliau yang telah bergelar Muslim sejak 10 tahun yang lalu. Sumbangan beliau melebihi saya yang bergelar Muslim sejak lahir lagi.
Beliau telah menyelamatkan sebuah bangunan yang di jadikan masjid oleh penduduk Muslim di Seville dengan membeli bangunan tersebut dengan harga 700,000USD yang sebelumnya terpaksa di jual kerana telah tamat kontrak pemilikan. Jumlah tersebut bersamaan dengan jumlah pendapatannya selama setahun.
Kanoute juga berjaya membuktikan kecemerlangannya dalam arena bola sepak apabila meraih kejuaraan dengan menjaringkan 20 gol sepanjang liga setanding dengan lagenda bola sepak,Ronaldinho.
Kanoute juga menubuhkan yayasan untuk membantu anak2 yatim di tanah airnya, Mali.
Pada Ramadhan yang lepas, Kanoute mengejutkan para peminat bola sepak Spanish dengan aksinya yang cemerlang biarpun beliau berpuasa.
Kanoute yang lazimnya menunaikan kewajipan solat biarpun di locker room, menolak untuk memakai jersi kelabnya yang di taja oleh sebuah syarikat internet perjudian kerana judi di larang oleh Islam. Bagaimaapun kelabnya meyediakan jersi khas untuk beliau.
Ikuti kisah menarik tetang Frederic Kanoute melalui berita di bawah ini:
MADRID — Malian Muslim footballer Frederic Kanoute, the striker of Spain's Seville FC, has saved the only mosque in the southern Spanish city of Seville from closure.
Kanoute has paid 510,860 euros (some $700,000) so that fellow Muslims in Seville would not find themselves without a mosque, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP) Thursday, December 13.
The privately owned mosque was due to be sold after a contract to use the premises by the local Muslim population had expired.
But Kanoute stepped in to purchase the building.
The 30-year-old striker has not made any comment on the matter.
But city authorities have confirmed that the property has been registered in Kanoute's name, according to the BBC Sport.
It is estimated that Kanoute has spent almost a year's salary to buy the mosque.
Kanoute, , one of the finalists for the 2007 BBC African Footballer of the Year award, moved in 2005 from French champion Lyon to Seville FC, the 2006-07 Spanish league's third and the holder of last season's cup championship.
Grateful Spanish Muslims said they really appreciate Kanoute's moving gesture.
"If it had not been for Kanoute then we would not have had a mosque on Fridays, which is the most holy day of the week for Muslims," a spokesman for the Islamic Community of Spain was quoted as saying by BBC Sport.
Kanoute, who has also created a foundation in his motherland Mali to help orphans, reverted to Islam 10 years ago.
Last Ramadan, he impressed Spanish football fans by his unique performance though he was fasting.
Kanoute was crowned last year the league's top scorer with 20 goals, outperforming football legends such as Brazilian Ronaldinho.
Kanoute, a practicing Muslim who regularly performs his prayers even in the locker room, refused last season to wear a jersey advertising for an internet gambling site, because gambling is forbidden in Islam.
His team had to give him a brand-free jersey until he accepted wearing the sponsored jersey in return for money to an Islamic charity.
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