{"id":351074,"date":"2026-06-10T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/somali-referee-denied-entry-to-us-gets-heros-welcome-at-home\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:00:14","slug":"somali-referee-denied-entry-to-us-gets-heros-welcome-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/somali-referee-denied-entry-to-us-gets-heros-welcome-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali referee denied entry to US gets hero&#8217;s welcome at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/0_EdqYPUUlM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Somali referee denied entry to US gets hero's welcome at home\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_EdqYPUUlM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is defending its decision to bar Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan from entering the US, just days before the FIFA World Cup, over alleged links to a terrorist group. A FIFA spokesperson said in a statement that the World Cup organizer \u201cis not involved in host country immigration processes.\u201d Artan, who was named Africa\u2019s top male referee in 2025, would have been the first Somali to referee at the tournament. CNN\u2019s Larry Madowo reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is defending its decision to bar Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan from entering the US, just days before the FIFA World Cup, over alleged links to a terrorist group. A FIFA spokesperson said in a statement that the World Cup organizer \u201cis not involved in host country immigration processes.\u201d Artan, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[129706,133727,129382],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-351074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-administration","tag-defending","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somali referee denied entry to US gets hero&#039;s welcome at home | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Somali referee denied entry to US gets hero&#039;s welcome at home for free, here on News ISC. 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