Papiss Cissé

Papiss Cissé is a Senegalese retired footballer, born in Dakar in 1985. ¹ A forward, he scored 22 goals for SC Freiburg in the 2010–11 Bundesliga — then the most by an African player in a single Bundesliga season — before spells at Newcastle United, Shandong Luneng, Fenerbahçe and other clubs; he won 36 caps and scored 17 goals for Senegal. ¹ A practising Muslim, he performs the sujud when celebrating goals; no source names a school for him, so his data record records his faith as unknown. ¹²

Cissé came to Europe with Metz before joining SC Freiburg in 2009, where his 22 league goals in 2010–11 set an African record for a Bundesliga season. ¹ Newcastle United signed him in January 2012 and he scored a celebrated run of goals in his first months in England; he later played in China for Shandong Luneng, then for Fenerbahçe, Çaykur Rizespor and Amiens. ¹

Cissé won 36 caps for Senegal between 2009 and 2015, scoring 17 goals, and captained the side in 2012–13. ¹

The English article calls Cissé a practicing Muslim who often performs the sujud when celebrating a goal, and records his objection — alongside Newcastle's other Muslim players — to the Wonga shirt sponsorship; the French article records his 2012 statement, made as a Muslim, that he could not wear the sponsored shirt. ¹³ The Arabic article's text makes no statement of his religion, filing him only by category, and Wikidata gives his religion simply as Islam; no source names a school or madhhab for him, so his record states his faith as unknown. ⁴²

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