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glo
05-01-2009, 02:19 PM
Always the highlight of the football year! :D
Last year the imams won 9-0, this year it ended as a draw.

Here is the slightly tongue-in-cheek article from The Times:
In the end it was the Hand of God that saved the Christians.

As the Prince of Wales, who would like one day to style himself Defender of Faith, moved towards the sidelines of the Christianity v Islam football tournament, the big German vicar Heribert Süttmann just managed to get his keeper’s glove to the ball and save the honour of the West.

“Quite a match,” the Prince said as he handed the gilded inter-faith cup to the captains of the Vicars and the Imams. The scoreless draw in the Berlin game was a triumph for the ecumenical movement and a relief for the Prince, who argues for mutual respect between competing faiths — but it was a close-run thing.

Before the game, staged in a scruffy stadium in the centre of the Turkish district of the German capital, the odds were strongly on the Muslims thrashing the Christians. Last year they won 9-0. This year they looked even slicker. “My God,” the Christian captain, the Rev Roland Herpich, said, “there are hundreds of them.”

It was seven-a-side but the Muslim clerics, wearing white shirts marked “Imam”, had brought along 15, a sign of how rapidly the Islamic community is expanding in the German capital. They were muscular, well-trained Turks, Tunisians and Egyptians, and as they rolled out their prayer mats in the changing room it was plain that they were counting on Allah.

By contrast, it was difficult for the Vicars to scratch up a side. Three had bandaged knees even before kick-off; Mr Herpich was 56; the goalkeeper 51.

It did not look good, though it probably helped when one of the Imams’ star players, Abdel Hamide Kamouss, smacked his head against a German theologian; both went away dazed by this Clash of Civilisations. Until then the 31-year-old imam — who scored two goals in last year’s game — looked as if he could single-handedly claim revenge for the Crusades.

[...]

The idea of pitting Christians against Muslims was tried out in a charity match in Leicester in 2005 and was brought to Berlin by the local Anglican chaplain, the Rev Christopher Jage-Bowler, 47. The chaplain — who used to be a Moët & Chandon salesman — said: “Prince Charles coming here has put this kind of strategy on the map and it shows that imams and Christian clergy are really concerned with integration and dialogue on the basis of friendship rather than just talking over each other heads.”

A Protestant player whose speciality was a long looping pass added: “Creating a new easiness between urban religious communities is a kind of soft power. I can see why the Prince would be interested in this as a future king.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle6194620.ece

Peace :)
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Soulja Girl
05-01-2009, 02:22 PM
:sl:

9-0 huh? :ooh: Lol :D

:w:
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glo
05-01-2009, 02:24 PM
^
Well, what do you expect, if it's burly young Imams vs ageing Vicars with bandaged knees??! :D
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Yanal
05-01-2009, 02:32 PM
Bismillah hair rahmaan nair raheem
First I thought this thread was about Imams(Muslim ones) but this is about football,I don't usually watch it but I play it ocassionally.
Walakum Asalam Warakmatulah Wabarkatuh
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Cabdullahi
05-01-2009, 03:37 PM
Yes we thrashed the vicars.....haha GET IN!
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The Ruler
05-01-2009, 03:46 PM
Edit~
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crayon
05-01-2009, 04:29 PM
Awww haha, this is so cool mashaAllah, kudos to all those who participated!
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glo
05-01-2009, 04:37 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by Abdullahii
Yes we thrashed the vicars.....haha GET IN!
Not this year, Junior. This year it was a draw.
Looks like those vicars have been training! :D
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