Hussein Mumin
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Hussein Mumin is a professional football
midfielder currently playing for Panetolikos.
He is the first Muslim Western Thracian to play for the Greek national team
. A Muslim from Western Thrace
has become the first from his region of Greece to wear the uniform of the national Greek football team.
Hussein played 6 February 2007 in the match between Greek and Albanian junior national teams, wearing the Greek national uniform and becoming the first Western Thracian Muslim to do so in the process. When asked by reporters to comment on how it was being a Muslim player on a Greek national team, Huseyin said this: "In football, there is only one religion: the ball itself."
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
midfielder currently playing for Panetolikos.
He is the first Muslim Western Thracian to play for the Greek national team
Greece national football team
The Greece national football team represents Greece in association football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece's home ground is Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and their head coach is Fernando Santos...
. A Muslim from Western Thrace
Western Thrace
Western Thrace or simply Thrace is a geographic and historical region of Greece, located between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country. Together with the regions of Macedonia and Epirus, it is often referred to informally as northern Greece...
has become the first from his region of Greece to wear the uniform of the national Greek football team.
Hussein played 6 February 2007 in the match between Greek and Albanian junior national teams, wearing the Greek national uniform and becoming the first Western Thracian Muslim to do so in the process. When asked by reporters to comment on how it was being a Muslim player on a Greek national team, Huseyin said this: "In football, there is only one religion: the ball itself."