{"id":41569,"date":"2026-06-11T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/41569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:36:31","slug":"fifa-president-tells-fans-to-chill-after-somali-referee-denied-us-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/41569\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa president tells fans to &#8216;chill&#8217; after Somali referee denied US entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Fifa president tells fans to &#039;chill&#039; after Somali referee denied US entry\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SP50IfOZDpA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFifa president tells fans to &#8216;chill&#8217; after Somali referee denied US entry<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSpeaking on the eve of the tournament opener between co-hosts Mexico and South Africa, Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells football fans to &#8216;chill and relax&#8217; over concerns surrounding Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was barred from entering the US this week despite having a valid visa. &#8216;We have to respect that we are not kings of the world, who can rule over governments and police forces. We are a sports organisation that does as much as we can. It\u2019s important sometimes to chill, relax. We work on everything. Sometimes screaming and shouting does not find a solution,&#8217; he says.<br \/>\n Gianni Infantino tells football fans to \u2018chill\u2019 in response to Fifa\u2019s critics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifa president tells fans to &#8216;chill&#8217; after Somali referee denied US entry Speaking on the eve of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[2234,40297,25291,240,261,18709,39631,40293,39675,2236,2237,40294,40295,40296],"class_list":["post-41569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-president","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-infantino","tag-somali-referee","tag-somalian-world-cup-umpire","tag-travel-ban","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-world-cup-referee","tag-world-cup-travel-ban","tag-world-cup-umpire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116728709897591496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41569","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=41569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}