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Wolves’ defender Romain Saiss chats to RamboFYI about Ramadan, fasting and faith as a Premier League player.
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people that don’t know we’re not allowed
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to drink water as well in that period
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when you’re allowed to drink
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do you like sit under the tap and you’re
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like all right
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you okay yeah i’m good how are you doing
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i’m good thank you how’s
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ramadan going it’s okay yeah we are
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lucky to have a
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nice weather
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for people at home who don’t know what
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ramadan is what would you describe it as
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it’s the best time to to ask a god to
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forgive your your mistake also to to
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spend the
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good time with with your your family
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i think for people at home obviously you
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eat in the evening
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after sun goes down we both know that
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because we’re both faster today but for
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you
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how how does how does ramadan affect you
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as a as a person
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and how do you think it affects other
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people as well people they are different
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some people they
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they can sleep all the day but that’s me
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a a strange ramadan but after it’s a you
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are
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we are all different so it’s only
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between you
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and and god obviously being a footballer
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how does it affect you like mentally and
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physically yeah i try to be focused on
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on that aspect because it’s a tough
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period for
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for my body people don’t know when not
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allowed to drink water as well
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in that period when you’re allowed to
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drink do you like sit under the tap and
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you’re like
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before yes before i think every muslim
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we
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when we start doing ramadan what it was
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time to eat
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and drink we go like crazy right after
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10 minutes you are completely full for a
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few hours when i was playing football i
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think that week we won like a trophy
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something
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and obviously people were spraying
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champagne and things it was quite a
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scary experience because obviously i
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don’t want it coming near me
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and did you feel like here it was pretty
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comfortable
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yeah yeah it’s completely normal for
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example when we
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for birthday when we bring cakes or
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donuts
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was the case today and whose birthday
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today aleanda
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but obviously i’m not gonna say to the
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guys i don’t eat in front of me yeah
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they respect me i have to respect them
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i’m always thinking you know if you’ve
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got a match and you’ve got
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you’re playing left center back and
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you’ve got like rashford running at you
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even on a non-fasting night that’s a
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hard job
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on a fascinate when you’re thirsty and
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things like do you feel as though like
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for you it’s just a normal day yeah
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whatever the day you have to
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take it like a normal day because if you
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start thinking
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about for for example tomorrow i have a
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big training
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so i’m fasting it will be hard mentally
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you
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you’re gonna go down it will be harder
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so
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the point is to to keep the same
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mentality
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finally before i let you go i’ve always
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wanted to know
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i binge disgustingly i i like i said
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kebabs samosas i don’t even want to talk
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about my diet i look like a slim guy but
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i’m right underneath this it’s
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just a baggy top anything you’d like to
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binge on anything you really like
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getting i uh we call it in french we say
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the brick
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it’s like samosa but moroccan samosa
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yeah yeah or
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with a chicken and cheese yeah
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and it’s so good how many do you eat on
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average a day i don’t know
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but it has to be a secret because
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otherwise after
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you’re gonna control my body fat every
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day well you look fit and healthy
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yeah that’s right yeah yeah that’s it
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thank you so much for the year welcome
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obviously it’s completely different
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thank you to you
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you
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