{"id":40520,"date":"2026-06-09T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/40520\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:43:52","slug":"somali-referee-axed-from-world-cup-after-being-denied-entry-to-us-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/40520\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali referee axed from World Cup after being denied entry to US \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Somali referee axed from World Cup after being denied entry to US \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6o_g1OBUlDo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSomali referee axed from World Cup after being denied entry to US \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAward-winning Somali referee Omar Artan has been dropped from officiating at the World Cup after being barred from entering the United States, world football&#8217;s governing body FIFA said on Monday. A FIFA spokesperson confirmed in a statement that Artan would play no part in the World Cup. Artan would have been the first Somali to referee at a World Cup.<br \/>\n#WorldCup #Somalia #OmarArtan<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somali referee axed from World Cup after being denied entry to US \u2022 FRANCE 24 English Award-winning Somali&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[30372,1728,33664,5311,14,2234,5312,2241,22,23,20,21,241,14583,650,1243,8983,2235,39674,31,3782,10681,1194,39675,48,44,4785,2236],"class_list":["post-40520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-canada","tag-champion","tag-competition","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifa","tag-foot","tag-football","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-ice","tag-information","tag-infos","tag-international","tag-match","tag-mexico","tag-mogadisciu","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-somalia","tag-sport","tag-travel-ban","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-visa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116720735565990490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}