{"id":92783,"date":"2026-08-11T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92783"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:37:24","slug":"somali-referee-omar-artan-grateful-for-super-cup-chance-after-world-cup-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/11\/somali-referee-omar-artan-grateful-for-super-cup-chance-after-world-cup-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali referee Omar Artan grateful for Super Cup chance after World Cup exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29MssX.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=47&y=153&s=905&d=264\" alt=\"Omar Artan (centre) was given a hero\u2019s welcome when he arrived back in Mogadishu after being denied entry to the US. Photograph: Feisal Omar\/Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Somali referee Omar Artan, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/08\/top-african-referee-omar-artan-refused-access-to-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">was refused entry to the US<\/a> to officiate at the World Cup, has spoken publicly for the first time about the decision and detailed his pride <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/sport\/football\/somali-referee-omar-artan-grateful-for-super-cup-chance-after-world-cup-exclusion\/ar-AA29LTxc?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a7ace790f7947809f93da71deed03da&ei=39\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Somali referee Omar Artan, who\u00a0was refused entry to the US to officiate at the World Cup, has spoken publicly for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Omar-Artan.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92784,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92783\/revisions\/92784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}