'Faith comes before football' – Ouattara

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"For me, faith comes first. It comes before football."

As Ramadan draws to a close, Bournemouth's Dango Ouattara is clear where his priorities lie.

The forward from Burkina Faso is a devout Muslim who prays five times a day, as well as before and after each game he plays, saying it helps him to "stay humble".

"It allows us to refocus on ourselves, to see what we've done well and what we haven't been able to do well," the 23-year-old tells BBC Sport Africa when we meet at his local mosque in Poole.

"It also allows us to correct ourselves in society too. It allows us to stay on the right path."

During our conversation, Ouattara regularly uses words such as "calm" and "stable" to describe…