{"id":4841,"date":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:05:07","slug":"tanzania-subjected-to-unfair-refereeing-against-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4841\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Subjected to Unfair Refereeing Against Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            Former international Egyptian referee Gamal Al-Ghandour confirmed that the Tanzania national team was subjected to unfair refereeing against the Morocco national team in the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Moroccan national team won against the Tanzanian national team with a 1-0 score last Sunday evening in the Round of 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>In the final moments of the match, a Tanzanian player was clearly pushed by Moroccan defender Adam Masina inside the penalty area, but the referee did not award a penalty to Tanzania, despite protests from the Tanzanian players.<\/p>\n<p>Gamal El-Ghandour commented on the refereeing situation in an analytical video, saying: &#8220;There is clear pushing and pulling inside the penalty area, and the Tanzanian player was in control of the ball, which makes the correct decision to award a penalty kick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The referee did not count anything, and the video technology referee did not intervene or call the on-field referee to review the situation, despite the clear violation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former international referee emphasized that the greater responsibility lies with the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), saying: &#8220;The greater blame in this case falls on the VAR referee more than the on-field referee, because intervention was necessary in a moment that significantly affected the outcome of the match.&#8221;\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former international Egyptian referee Gamal Al-Ghandour confirmed that the Tanzania national team was subjected to unfair refereeing against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[311,1450,96,1451,1449,152,1448],"class_list":{"0":"post-4841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-matches","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-results","12":"tag-score","13":"tag-tanzania","14":"tag-yalla-shoot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}