Frédéric Kanouté

Frédéric Kanouté is a Malian retired footballer, born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France, in 1977. ¹ A striker, he starred for Sevilla in Spain and was named the 2007 African Footballer of the Year, the first player born outside Africa to win the award. ¹ The sources document his conversion to Islam and his devout practice but name no school for him, so his data record records his faith as unknown. ²³

Kanouté came through Lyon, played in England for West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur, and joined Sevilla in 2005, where he won two consecutive UEFA Cups in 2006 and 2007 and scored 137 goals in 290 matches over seven seasons. ¹ He closed his career with one season at Beijing Guoan in China, retiring in 2013. ¹

Kanouté represented Mali, the country of his father's origin, at international level, including at the Africa Cup of Nations, and later founded a charitable foundation working with orphans in Mali. ¹

The French article, citing an interview, states that Kanouté converted to Islam at the age of twenty, and that part of his family, including his father, is Muslim while another part is Christian. ² The English article's text makes no statement of his religion; it reports his practice — refusing a gambling sponsor's name on his shirt, paying more than US$700,000 of his own money in 2007 to buy the Seville mosque whose premises were due to be sold, helping raise over $1m for a mosque in Seville, and fasting in Ramadan — and its categories file him among French and Malian Muslims and converts to Islam. ¹ The Arabic article is silent on his religion, and Wikidata gives his religion simply as Islam. ⁴³ A conversion report, documented practice and category filings are not two sources naming a school, so his record states his faith as unknown. ²

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