{"id":724486,"date":"2026-06-09T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:52:12","slug":"somali-soccer-referee-will-miss-world-cup-after-u-s-denies-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724486\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali soccer referee will miss World Cup after U.S. denies entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States denied entry over \u2060the weekend to soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who had been expected to be the first Somali to officiate at a World Cup match.<\/p>\n<p>A FIFA spokesperson said on Monday that Artan will not be able to train and \u200bofficiate at the World Cup \u2014 which kicks off on Thursday \u2014 \u200cafter he \u200cwas not allowed to enter the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIFA is \u200bnot involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr. Artan\u2019s status will not be \u2060changed at present,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States denied entry over \u2060the weekend to soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who had been expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[21898,49,48,561,30825,82],"class_list":["post-724486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-somalia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}