{"id":24114,"date":"2011-12-30T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/zambian-referee-for-afcon\/"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T10:34:48","slug":"zambian-referee-for-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/30\/zambian-referee-for-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian referee for AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span readability=\"19\">Zambia will have one referee at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA referee Jan Sikazwe from Kapiri Mposhi in Central Zambia will be the country\u2019s sole match official at the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Football Association of Zambia communications officer Erick Mwanza said FAZ were delighted to have a match official selected for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWe wish Janny well and remain very optimistic that yet many more Zambian match officials will maintain the high standards that our football is being associated with and strive to work at that high level of the game,\u201d Mwanza said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanny is a FIFA referee and officiated the 2011 All Africa Games final match in Mozambique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sikazwe is one of Zambia\u2019s most respected coaches and has made a rapid rise to top flight refereeing since 2004 when he oversaw division three games in the FAZ league.<\/p>\n<p>He has taken charge of cup finals and has handled big Kitwe derbies between Power Dynamos and Nkana since the latter were promoted in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Zambia will have one referee at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. FIFA referee Jan Sikazwe from Kapiri Mposhi in Central Zambia will be the country\u2019s sole match official at the competition. Football Association of Zambia communications officer Erick Mwanza said FAZ were delighted to have a match official selected for the tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zambian referee for AFCON - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/30\/zambian-referee-for-afcon\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zambian referee for AFCON - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Zambia will have one referee at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. 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