{"id":428445,"date":"2017-10-13T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/13\/fifa-rejects-ghanas-protest-against-referee-bennett\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:00:28","slug":"fifa-rejects-ghanas-protest-against-referee-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/13\/fifa-rejects-ghanas-protest-against-referee-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA rejects Ghana&#8217;s protest against referee Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/61828417.295.jpg\" alt=\"Referee Bennett\" title=\"Referee Bennett\" width=\"295\" height=\"241\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Referee Bennett disallowed a late legitimate goal scored by striker Raphael Dwamena<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507928428_952_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">FIFA says it will not act on Ghana&#8217;s complaint about officiating in the penultimate 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Uganda last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association wanted its 0-0 draw in Uganda replayed, and also protested about South African referee Daniel Bennett and his assistants from Seychelles.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s failure to win meant Egypt, which beat Republic of Congo 2-1 the next day, advanced to play in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA says &#8220;no proceedings will be opened around the World Cup qualifier match Uganda vs. Ghana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana believed two goals were disallowed for incorrect offside decisions. Replays suggested a stoppage-time goal should have counted.<\/p>\n<p>The request followed FIFA last month ordering a replay of a South Africa-Senegal qualifier played last year. 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The Ghana Football Association wanted its 0-0 draw in Uganda replayed, and also protested about South African referee Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":427629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FIFA rejects Ghana&#039;s protest against referee Bennett - 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\/2017\/10\/13\/fifa-rejects-ghanas-protest-against-referee-bennett\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"FIFA rejects Ghana&#039;s protest against referee Bennett - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Referee Bennett disallowed a late legitimate goal scored by striker Raphael Dwamena &#013; FIFA says it will not act on Ghana&#8217;s complaint about officiating in the penultimate 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Uganda last weekend. 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