{"id":2468,"date":"2026-06-10T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:58:25","slug":"omar-artan-somali-referee-back-home-after-being-denied-entry-to-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Omar Artan: Somali referee back home after being denied entry to USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referee Omar Artan arrives back in Somalia after being denied entry to the United States for the World Cup because of his &#8220;association with suspected members of terror organisations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c2dylj8kj82o\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Banned referee had links with &#8216;terror organisations&#8217; &#8211; US official<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Omar Artan arrives back in Somalia after being denied entry to the United States for the World Cup because&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}