{"id":19460,"date":"2025-09-07T06:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dango-ouattara-faith-comes-before-football-bbc-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:32:30","slug":"dango-ouattara-faith-comes-before-football-bbc-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dango-ouattara-faith-comes-before-football-bbc-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dango Ouattara: &#8216;Faith comes before football&#8217; &#8211; BBC Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xitLK5J4GQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In recent years, elite-level sport has started doing more to help professional athletes who observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Premier League is a good example \u2013 introducing breaks that allow players to break their fast if the sun sets during a game. As Ramadan comes to an end, Dango Ouattara describes his typical day as Bournemouth&#8217;s forward and how Islam helps to keep him grounded. The 23-year-old is the second Burkinabe to appear in the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5xitLK5J4GQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, elite-level sport has started doing more to help professional athletes who observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Premier League is a good example \u2013 introducing breaks that allow players to break their fast if the sun sets during a game. As Ramadan comes to an end, Dango Ouattara describes his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19462,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460\/revisions\/19462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}