{"id":758070,"date":"2022-01-20T02:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/female-referees-steal-show-at-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T02:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:36:57","slug":"female-referees-steal-show-at-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/female-referees-steal-show-at-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Referees Steal Show At AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Salima Mukansanga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rwandan referee Salima Mukansanga led an all-female line-up of match officials at the Africa Cup of Nations encounter between Guinea and Zimbabwe yesterday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time only women will officiate a game at Africa\u2019s flagship international tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Mukansanga took charge alongside assistants Carine Atemzabong from Cameroon and Fatiha Jermoumi of Morocco. The Video Assistant Referee was another Moroccan, Bouchra Karboubi.<\/p>\n<p>Mukansanga had been the fourth official in the clash between Guinea and Malawi on January 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe [Mukansanga] has had to overcome serious obstacles to reach this level and she deserves a lot of credit,\u201d CAF Head of Referees Eddy Maillet said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis moment is not just for Salima but for every young girl in Africa who has passion for football and who sees herself as a referee in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salima Mukansanga Rwandan referee Salima Mukansanga led an all-female line-up of match officials at the Africa Cup of Nations encounter between Guinea and Zimbabwe yesterday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced. It was the first time only women will officiate a game at Africa\u2019s flagship international tournament. Mukansanga took charge alongside assistants Carine Atemzabong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,145,2438,2210,52],"class_list":["post-758070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-female","tag-referees","tag-show","tag-steal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}