{"id":22361,"date":"2026-01-14T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:30:06","slug":"caf-confirms-ghanas-laryea-for-morocco-nigeria-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22361\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Confirms Ghana\u2019s Laryea for Morocco, Nigeria semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Confederation of African Football (CAF)<\/a> has confirmed Ghana\u2019s Daniel Nii Laryea as\u00a0\u00a0the centre when Nigeria and Morocco clash in their\u00a0\u00a0semi-final\u00a0\u00a0match\u00a0\u00a0at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter will hold at the Prince Moulay Abdallah Stadium, Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Laryea was the VAR official for Morocco\u2019s 2-0\u00a0\u00a0quarter-final win against Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he demonstrated his on-field authority as centre referee when Algeria faced Burkina Faso in the group stage. <\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old is recognized as one of Africa\u2019s top referees.<\/p>\n<p>He has officiated in multiple AFCON editions, CAF Champions League, and Confederation Cup fixtures, consistently commanding respect for his fairness and ability to manage tense matches.<\/p>\n<p>The game will kick-off at 9pm Nigeria time.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed Ghana\u2019s Daniel Nii Laryea as\u00a0\u00a0the centre when Nigeria and Morocco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[483,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-22361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-caf","9":"tag-ghana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}