{"id":439550,"date":"2017-11-21T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/21\/we-didnt-have-any-well-groomed-referee-for-2018-world-cup-alex-kortey\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:00:27","slug":"we-didnt-have-any-well-groomed-referee-for-2018-world-cup-alex-kortey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/21\/we-didnt-have-any-well-groomed-referee-for-2018-world-cup-alex-kortey\/","title":{"rendered":"We didn\u2019t have any &#8216;well groomed&#8217; referee for 2018 World Cup &#8211; Alex Kortey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday, 21 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>sportsworldghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-21<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/54302566.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Lamptey Ref1\" title=\"Joseph Lamptey Ref1\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joseph Lamptey has been banned for life by FIFA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511280027_1_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Referees Association of Ghana [RAG] Chairman Alex Kortey has said his outfit had no perfect candidate to present to FIFA for the Russia 2018 world Cup after veteran referee Joseph Odartei Lamptey\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, suspended Joseph Lamptey was the only Ghanaian referee who had been groomed presently to represent Ghana at both CAF and the world\u2019s football governing body\u2019s organized competitions only to be handed a life time ban having performed poorly in a world cup qualifier match between South Africa and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Kumasi based Abusua FM, the retired referee indicated that the country had no \u2018well groomed candidate to present to FIFA for next year\u2019s global showpiece in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>He says\u2019\u2019 We are worried that there is no Ghanaian referee in the list announced by FIFA for the Russia 2018 World Cup, it is quite unfortunate because we had referee Joseph Lamptey who had been groomed by both CAF and FIFA to represent the country at the highest level until he was handed life-time ban by FIFA\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He continued \u2018\u2019Since Lamptey has been banned we don\u2019t have any other referee to be presented to FIFA for now so we have to sit down and work something out by training others to fill the gab hopefully 2022 will get someone to represent the country\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA\u2019s Disciplinary Committee indicted the Ghanaian referee for manipulating the 2018 World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal played last November.<\/p>\n<p><b>Below is a list of the referees, countries they represent and year of birth.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>AFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fahad Al Mirdasi (KSA, 1985)<\/p>\n<p>Alireza Faghani (IRN, 1978)<\/p>\n<p>Ravshan Irmatov (UZB, 1977)<\/p>\n<p>Abdulla Mohamed (EAU, 1978)<\/p>\n<p>Ryuji Sato (JPN, 1977)<\/p>\n<p>Nawaf Shukralla (BHR, 1976)<\/p>\n<p><b>CAF<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Abid Charef (ALG, 1980)<\/p>\n<p>Malang Diedhiou (SEN, 1973)<\/p>\n<p>Bakary Gassama (GAM, 1979)<\/p>\n<p>Ghead Grisha (EGY, 1976)<\/p>\n<p>Janny Sikazwe (ZAM, 1979)<\/p>\n<p>Bamlak Tessema (ETH, 1980)<\/p>\n<p><b>CONCACAF<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Joel Aguilar (SLV, 1975)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Geiger (USA, 1974)<\/p>\n<p>Jair Marrufo (USA, 1977)<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Montero (CRC, 1986)<\/p>\n<p>John Pitti (PAN, 1978)<\/p>\n<p>Cesar Ramos (MEX, 1983)<\/p>\n<p><b>CONMEBOL<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Julio Bascunan (CHI, 1978)<\/p>\n<p>Enrique Caceres (PAR, 1974)<\/p>\n<p>Andres Cunha (URU, 1976)<\/p>\n<p>Nestor Pitana (ARG, 1975)<\/p>\n<p>Sandro Ricci (BRA, 1974)<\/p>\n<p>Wilmar Roldan (COL, 1980)<\/p>\n<p><b>OFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Conger (NZL, 1978)<\/p>\n<p>Norbert Hauata (TAH, 1979)<\/p>\n<p><b>UEFA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Felix Brych (GER, 1975)<\/p>\n<p>Cuneyt Cakir (TUR, 1976)<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Karasev (RUS, 1979)<\/p>\n<p>Bjorn Kuipers (NED, 1973)<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP, 1977)<\/p>\n<p>Szymon Marciniak (POL, 1981)<\/p>\n<p>Milorad Mazic (SRB, 1973)<\/p>\n<p>Gianluca Rocchi (ITA, 1973)<\/p>\n<p>Damir Skomina (SVN, 1976)<\/p>\n<p>Clement 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Lamptey has been banned for life by FIFA Referees Association of Ghana [RAG] Chairman Alex Kortey has said his outfit had no perfect candidate to present to FIFA for the Russia 2018 world Cup after veteran referee Joseph Odartei Lamptey\u2019s ban. 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