{"id":5069,"date":"2024-09-26T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-woman-refereeing-some-of-nigerias-biggest-football-matches\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:27:25","slug":"the-woman-refereeing-some-of-nigerias-biggest-football-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-woman-refereeing-some-of-nigerias-biggest-football-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"The woman refereeing some of Nigeria&#8217;s biggest football matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gbemisola Yusuf is a woman who likes to be in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, aged just 21, she is already refereeing football games in Nigeria, as well as for continental governing body the Confederation of African Football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cControlling 22 players on the field is amazing,&#8221; she told BBC Sport Africa from the Maracana pitch in Ajegunle, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is no small feat, as Yusuf is amongst a relatively small group of female referees in her country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Emmanuel Akindubuwa, Mobolaji Olatunde and Njoroge Muigai<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/c5yjg13nv9jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gbemisola Yusuf is a woman who likes to be in charge. And, aged just 21, she is already refereeing football games in Nigeria, as well as for continental governing body the Confederation of African Football. \u201cControlling 22 players on the field is amazing,&#8221; she told BBC Sport Africa from the Maracana pitch in Ajegunle, Lagos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","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\/5069","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=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}