{"id":30656,"date":"2026-06-09T20:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/who-is-the-somali-referee-barred-from-entering-the-us-for-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:49:16","slug":"who-is-the-somali-referee-barred-from-entering-the-us-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/who-is-the-somali-referee-barred-from-entering-the-us-for-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Somali referee barred from entering the US for the World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Omar Artan was set to become the first Somali to referee a game at the World Cup finals, but his place in history has been denied by US immigration authorities.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8j27zkp94zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Artan was set to become the first Somali to referee a game at the World Cup finals, but his place in history has been denied by US immigration authorities. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30658,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30656\/revisions\/30658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}