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Following Liberia’s 1-0 defeat to Tunisia in a 2026 World Cup qualifier on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Minister of Sports has requested the Liberia Football Association (LFA) to file a formal complaint against referee Clement Franklin Kpan.<\/p>\n
The Ivorian official allegedly denied Liberia three penalty appeals, prompting Minister Jeror Cole Bangalu to urge the LFA to escalate the matter to FIFA.<\/p>\n
In a statement released Thursday, the Sports Ministry said a video review of the match revealed that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Following Liberia’s 1-0 defeat to Tunisia in a 2026 World Cup qualifier on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Minister of Sports has requested the Liberia Football Association (LFA) to file a formal complaint against referee Clement Franklin Kpan. The Ivorian official allegedly denied Liberia three penalty appeals, prompting Minister Jeror Cole Bangalu to urge the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,50919,8389,6183,6555,5959,9109,7241,6800,1218,50920,4712,20948,257,14812,254],"class_list":["post-194159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clement","tag-complaint","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-fifa","tag-file","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-kpan","tag-liberia","tag-liberiacote","tag-news","tag-referee","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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