{"id":7709,"date":"2013-01-23T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/ghana-get-ivorian-referee-desire-for-crucial-mali-game\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:13:00","slug":"ghana-get-ivorian-referee-desire-for-crucial-mali-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/23\/ghana-get-ivorian-referee-desire-for-crucial-mali-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Get Ivorian Referee Desire For Crucial Mali Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c14\">Posted On Wednesday, 23rd January 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"59\">\n<div id=\"attachment_210705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-210705\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/5c7eandiez-Desire-to-officiate-Ghana-vrs-Mali-game.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana gets Ivorian referee Desire for crucial Mali game\" width=\"540\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dou\u00e9 Noumandiez Desire to officiate Ghana vrs Mali game<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>By Ameenu Shardow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivorian Dou\u00e9\u00a0Noumandiez Desire has been appointed the center referee for the Ghana\u2019s game against Mali on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old will be the man in the center and will be assisted by his compatriot Zakhele Thusi Siwela\u00a0together with\u00a0Jean-Claude Birumushahu\u00a0from Burundi, while Algeria\u2019s\u00a0Mohamed Benouza\u00a0will be the fourth official.<\/p>\n<p>Desire, a pharmacist by profession comes in with a high pedigree haven officiated 29 official CAF matches since taking up refereeing in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>He has dished out 125 yellow cards, 7 red cards \u2013 3 of which were straight red.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorian is one of a few African\u2019s on the 52-man shortlist to officiate at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Officials for Ghana vrs Mali game:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Referee:\u00a0<\/strong>Dou\u00e9 Noumandiez Desire (C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Referee:\u00a0<\/strong>Songuifolo Yeo (C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Referee:\u00a0<\/strong>Jean-Claude Birumushahu\u00a0 (Burundi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4th Official:\u00a0<\/strong>Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Wednesday, 23rd January 2013 Dou\u00e9 Noumandiez Desire to officiate Ghana vrs Mali game By Ameenu Shardow Ivorian Dou\u00e9\u00a0Noumandiez Desire has been appointed the center referee for the Ghana\u2019s game against Mali on Thursday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}