فرنسا: فرانك ريبيري: الإسلام زاد من قدراتي وقوتي

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكد لاعب كرة القدم الفرنسي "فرانك ريبيري" - الذي يلعب حاليًّا مع نادي "بايرن ميونخ" - أنه منذ اعتناقه الإسلام قد زادت قدراته وقوته، معربًا عن امتنانه لزوجته "وهيبة بلحامي" الجزائرية التي كانت سببًا في إسلامه عام 2002 قبل زواجهما.

وأكد أن دينه من الأمور الخاصة التي أدت لشعوره بمزيد من القوة العقلية والبدنية، وأنه لم يؤثر سلبًا على فكرته عن العالم، وتعامله الاجتماعي مع الأفراد.

وأعرب أيضًا عن امتنانه لوالده الذي بذل الكثير لأجله ولأسرته وساعده على تخطي الصعاب وتحقيق النجاح؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Franck Ribery: Islam has strengthened me

French football player Ribery says that religion was his privacy and he felt stronger since he preferred Islam.

The Frenchman - who was named the UEFA Best Player in Europe last season - is among the top contenders along with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, to win the Ballon d’Or on January 13, 2014.

The world famous football player says he is a man of small things: "I am aware that life consists of small things. That is why I always stand when someone stops me on the street. I talk to many people. My mission is to make people happy."

He says his family was as a child and that his father taught him to respect people:

"My father worked a lot for us. He gave me the character of a winner, taught me to overcome difficult moments in life, and I had a lot of them. He taught me to stay 'on the ground' in every moment in life. That is why, today I try to enjoy in every moment, in every training, in every game. I want to make people happy, in the pitch and out of it.

"I worked in construction with my father to earn a living. I knew to play football when I was a child, and even that time I knew football will be more important than school for me. Actually, I was aware I can benefit from it. Though, I have not even dreamt that I can make such a big career. I was thinking I can play in the first or second league but I never thought I will be at the highest level. I had a great support from my father and wife and it helped me get here. Football gave me everything."

Ribery says he is thankful to his father and to Wahiba Belhami -- his wife of Algerian origin -- who Ribery says is the reason why he converted to Islam in 2002 and added Muslim name Bilal.

"Religion is my personal thing. I am a believer and since I converted to Islam, I think, I became stronger, I became mentally and physically stronger. Religion did not change my personality or my perception of the world," emphasizes Ribery.