Noussair Mazraoui’s Starting Right Back Again
Manchester United’s then Dutch manager, Eric ten Hag, appointed April 21st, 2022, signing international left back, Noussair Mazraoui, on August 13th, 2024, for €15m from German Bundesliga club, FC Bayern Munich, caused the Moroccan to reiterate unprompted, ‘I prefer my right foot.’1 However, with devout Moslems of the nations of Islam, for whom handedness and sidedness is an issue, left footed players are under a lot of pressure to say the same, because it’s the tradition that the left hand is ‘unclean’,2 so food is eaten only with the right.
It’s an issue for Moslems that left footed and left sided full backs and wingers are prevalent, as are left sided midfield players, and left footed center forwards. In the modern game of soccer, tactical movement has been towards left footed wingers, inside forwards, and wing backs on the right side of the pitch, and vice versa, which can be impacted upon by the Moslem desire to hide their sidedness and/or foot preference.
The current trend is for players to declare that they have no preference in terms of foot or sidedness, but that they’re ‘two-footed’, and therefore can play anywhere along the back line, forward line, or midfield; if required. Apart from hubris, such declarations are Islamic influenced, where converting ‘others’ is a basic tenet of the Moslem religion, deriving from the teaching of their Prophet Mohamed and the Koran (610-30 C.E.), dictated to him by the angels, and according to their beliefs about handedness.
Islam devolved from Ishmael, the second son of Abraham, whose first was Isaac, from whom Judaism devolved, although the Jews’ injunctions about cleanliness include no prohibitions against the left hand, or left sidedness. In fact God’s ‘strong arm’ (Ex: 13. 9) is the left, according to the Torah and Talmud, which is the Old Testament to the Christians, containing the law of the Jews and early history of their battle with slavery.
Apart from the populist understanding of ‘sinister’, as associated with ‘the left hand path’, or ‘witchcraft’, and that politically ‘left wing’ people are socialists, Christianity, which arose from the teaching of the rabbi, Jesus, during the period of the Roman occupation of Jewish Palestine, in the reign of the Emperor Tiberius Augustus (14-37 C.E.), recorded as the New Testament, has no negative opinions with regard to those who can’t demonstrate right sided dexterousness only, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ (Matt: 12. 31) That Jesus was killed, like a sacrificial animal, after Judas told him that a woman’s perfume was ‘too expensive’ for him, constituted an attack on God’s supportive strength; the left.
Mazraoui won the Dutch Eredivisie and KNVB Cup double at Stadion Feijenoord, De Kuip, Rotterdam, against Willem II, 4-0, on May 5th, in center midfield with AFC Ajax of Amsterdam in 2018-19, and as an unused substitute, the Johann Cruyff Shield XXIV. A match-up usually between Eredivisie champions and Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (Royal Dutch Football Association) KNVB Cup winners. However, as Ajax had won both league and cup, PSV Eindhoven, runner-up in the title race, were the opposition, beaten 2-0, on July 27th, at Ajax’s home stadium, the Johann Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, named for their legendary three times (1971, ‘72, and ‘73) European Champion Clubs’ Cup winning captain, and center forward; as indeed was the Johan Cruijff Schall, inaugurated in 1991.
Noussair won the double of Eredivisie and KNVB Cup with Ajax again at Feyenoord Rotterdam’s stadium, De Kuip, versus Vitesse Arnhem, 2-1, in 2019-20, on April 18th, at right back, and the Eredivisie again in 2021-22, before being freed to join Bayern for the 2022-23 season, where the München club then won, 5-3, the DFL-Supercup, a match-up on July 30th, 2022, at Red Bull Arena, Leipzig, between the winners of the Bundesliga, that is, Bayern in 2021-22, and RB Leipzig, winners of that season’s German cup, the DFB-Pokal, with Mazraoui substituting on 78 minutes, when the score was 4-1, for French center back, Dayot Upamecano. Before winning the 2022-23 Bundesliga, Mazraoui, praised for his performances at left back for Morocco, in the 2022 World Cup Finals in Qatar, again stated clearly his preference for the right full back position; or the less contentious, from the perspective of an Islamic culture obsessed with the left side as haraam, ‘forbidden’, right center back role.
Harry Maguire, left sided center half at Manchester United, since his signing by former reds’ center forward (1996-2007), then manager, Norwegian Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, on 5th August 2019, from Leicester City for £80m; 2019-20, 38 starts, and 2020-21, 34, whose doom after Solskjaer, replaced by former RB Leipzig manager, Ralf Rangnick, from December 3rd, 2022, until season’s end, seemed as a ‘sub’; 2021-22, 28 and 2 appearances; 2022-23, 8 (8); 2023-24, 18 (4), and 2024-25, 19 (8), was revealed by statistical analysis to touch the ball with his right 86% of the time,3 which is highly approvable to Moslem perceptions, and indeed might explain the origins of the emphatic statistic. Given the fact that ten Hag’s replacement, Manchester United’s Portuguese manager, from November 11th, 2024, Ruben Amorim, was used to fielding three center backs, along with left and right wing backs, Maguire’s and Mazraoui’s sidedness was important for the side.
A type righter, Ruben’s 3-4-3 system requires a left footed center back at the left of the three, and a left wing back, for example, Denmark’s Patrick Dorgu, bought by Amorim from Italian Serie A club US Lecce for £25m, on February 2nd, 2025, dropping back to defend; in the event of pressure being applied down the flank by the opposing team. When that happens, the result is equivalent to the RETURN key being pressed in the middle of a paragraph, that is, Dorgu assumes the left full back position, whereas the objective is to finish the paragraph, that is, score, when the referee then blows the whistle and the teams RETURN to their starting positions on the pitch: new paragraph. If the RETURN occurs, after the opposing team score, that is, the referee indicates a restart, then Manchester United’s left wing back has essentially contributed to the side’s failure to write a successful paragraph, broken, but written in the club’s history.
Of course the same is true of the other side of the field, where it’s the role of Portuguese right wing back, Diogo Dalot, for example, to cover for the right sided central defender as a right full back, in the event of an attack down that flank, while the three central defenders SHIFT across the field; until the left sided central defender, for example, Maguire, is in the left full back position.
United’s obsession with right sided left wingers, and left inside right forwards, could extend to left wing backs, and left full backs. After all, bought from, then second tier, Oldham Athletic, by Scot’s manager Alex Ferguson, for £650,000, Eire’s Denis Irwin (1990-2002), perhaps the greatest of all the left backs ever to put on the ‘red devils’ strip, was right footed, and also excelled in the right back role.
However, such a preoccupation with inversion at left, as well as right sides of the field, is significantly Islamic. When everyone is right sided, and the left sacrificed, it’s a successful Moslem conversion. Despite Mazraoui’s ability as a defender, 34 (3) games for United in 2024-25, the club finished 15th out of 20 in the Premier League, losing 14 games, and score-drawing all but one of 6 draws, after Amorim’s appointment, before defeat in the Final of the Europa Cup, 0-1, on May 21st to England’s ‘Lilywhites’, North London’s Tottenham Hotspur, at the stadium of Athletic Club, Nuevo San Mamés, Bilbao, Spain, with Noussair at right wing back. Not a good season defensively, the danger of a successful conversion for Islam being dependent upon having sacrificed the left hand of God (Ex: 13. 16), leaving an empty trophy cabinet, and looming unrecognized as a shadow upon minds unconcerned.
Mazraoui was at left back for Morocco, in their December 17th third place play off defeat to Croatia, 1-2, at Khalifa International Stadium (KIS), Al-Rayyah, in the World Cup Finals of 2022, while turning out at right back, left back, and center back, for Ajax and Bayern, but Islam has a hidden agenda, which is that converting others to Islam is an obligation, and sidedness is an aspect of that process.
Although for the secular being right, linguistically, is about correctness, for Moslems it’s also about handedness, which is called chirality, that is, sidedness, as basic to morality, for example, the left hand, unclean per se, is immoral, whereas for Christians it’s a part of human nature; acceptingly: as what it means to be human.
With regard to the population globally, 10% are left sided,4 and approximately 3% of those, as age-qualified, could choose soccer as a profession; amounting to less than 0.1%. Though the ratio of left to right at clubs is usually high, as left footed players are highly sought after for the balance of the team, the Moslem desire, that the left be right, has become strong, and influential enough to reintroduce the idea of the defending/attacking left wing back, as a ‘whipping boy’ for managers’ unhappiness over a team’s goal difference. Citing a need to improve ‘work rate’, the Islamic solution is slavery down the left side.
Although Denis Irwin was a great right footed left back, selecting right footed left backs shades into inhumanity, when left footed left backs are rationally what’s available and needed, and Denis was duly replaced by left footed French left back, bought by Ferguson from Italian Serie A club, Inter Milan, for £4m, Mikaël Silvestre (2000-08).
Ivory Coast’s Amad Diallo, selected as an attacking left footed Moslem right wing back, poses a dilemma, as defending at right back, which is what a defensive right wing back is expected to do, is less feasible for a left footed right wing back. Dalot, as a right full back, and a right wing back, who’s right footed, is naturally a defender of the right side, whereas Diallo, as a left sided attacking right wing back, can’t to be expected to be able to defend as well as a right footed, right full back, which weakens the team.
The usual solution is increased workload, where the wing back has to both attack and defend, that is, a demand that one becomes two, which amounts to sacrificing the best for the inadequate. Dalot, right footed, loaned to AC Milan of Italy’s Serie A for 2020-21, 10+11, by Solskjaer, after being used but sporadically, subsequent to his predecessor, Portuguese manager, José Mourinho, signing fellow countryman Diogo from FC Porto of Portugal, for £19m, on June 6th, 2018; 2018-19, 12+4, 2019-20, 1+3, became indispensable to ten Hag, 2021-22, 19+5, 2022-23, 24+2, 2023-24, 35+1, but selected as a left wing back by Amorim, 2024-25, 31+2, represented another team weakness.
Artificially created, perhaps, by an unwary Amorim, but attributable to Islamic influence. Being selected on the right, as a left footed forward, is Islamic, as much as being selected on the left, as a right footed left back. Having one do the work of two is a form of human sacrifice; resulting in slavery and pointless degeneration.
Losing at home, in the first game of the 2025-26 season, to Arsenal, on August 17th, 2025, Moslem Turkish ‘keeper, Altay Bayindir, trying, left-handed, to push away, and behind him, a viciously in-swinging 13th minute corner from the left, failed. As the left hand is forbidden in Islam, that is, God’s, so Altay’s attempt was weak, because it’s irreligious to use it, whereas ‘Allah’, the Islamic equivalent of the name of God, is served; if the weakness of the left hand is demonstrable to unbelievers. When asked if soccer was a religion, Liverpool FC manager (1959-74), Bill Shankly, was used to saying, ‘No, it’s more important than that.’5 Italian left back, Riccardo Calafiori, headed in at the back post, 0-1.
1 FCRatings, https://www.fcratings.com/noussair-mazraoui .
2 Alba, Jessica ‘Why Is The Left Hand Considered Unclean?’, 23/07/23, https://learnmethods.com/why-is-the-left-hand-considered-unclean/ .
3 O’Neill, David ‘Why Switching Sides is the Best Thing for Harry Maguire’, The People’s Person, 15/07/22, https://thepeoplesperson.com/2022/07/15/why-switching-sides-is-the-best-thing-for-harry-maguire-249375/ .
4 Nield, David Science Alert, 09/08/20, ‘Why Are Only 10% Of People Left Handed?’, https://www.sciencealert.com/why-are-only-10-of-people-left-handed-here-s-what-scientists-know-so-far .
5 Mirror Football, ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death ... The wit and wisdom of Bill Shankly’, 02/09/2010, https://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/Liverpool-legend-Bill-Shankly-Football-more-important-than-life-and-death-plus-his-other-great-quotes-article570339.html .