{"id":351329,"date":"2026-06-11T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/fifa-president-tells-fans-to-chill-after-somali-referee-denied-us-entry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:00:27","slug":"fifa-president-tells-fans-to-chill-after-somali-referee-denied-us-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/fifa-president-tells-fans-to-chill-after-somali-referee-denied-us-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa president tells fans to &#8216;chill&#8217; after Somali referee denied US entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/SP50IfOZDpA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Fifa president tells fans to 'chill' after Somali referee denied US entry\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SP50IfOZDpA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the eve of the tournament opener between co-hosts Mexico and South Africa, Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells football fans to &#8216;chill and relax&#8217; over concerns surrounding Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was barred from entering the US this week despite having a valid visa. &#8216;We have to respect that we are not kings of the world, who can rule over governments and police forces. 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Sometimes screaming and shouting does not find a solution,&#8217; he says.<br \/>\n Gianni Infantino tells football fans to \u2018chill\u2019 in response to Fifa\u2019s critics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the eve of the tournament opener between co-hosts Mexico and South Africa, Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells football fans to &#8216;chill and relax&#8217; over concerns surrounding Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was barred from entering the US this week despite having a valid visa. &#8216;We have to respect that we are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[151106,129385,144294],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-351329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-opener","tag-speaking","tag-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fifa president tells fans to &#039;chill&#039; after Somali referee denied US entry | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Fifa president tells fans to &#039;chill&#039; after Somali referee denied US entry for free, here on News ISC. 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