{"id":194486,"date":"2025-03-25T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/liberia-tunisia-fifa-confirms-receipt-of-liberias-protest-over-referee-in-tunisia-defeat\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:03:38","slug":"liberia-tunisia-fifa-confirms-receipt-of-liberias-protest-over-referee-in-tunisia-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/liberia-tunisia-fifa-confirms-receipt-of-liberias-protest-over-referee-in-tunisia-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia\/Tunisia: FIFA Confirms Receipt of Liberia&#8217;s Protest Over Referee in Tunisia Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Congo Town \u2014 The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has confirmed receiving a formal complaint from Liberia following the Lone Star&#8217;s 1-0 defeat to Tunisia on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in the ongoing World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The protest centers on allegations of officiating misconduct by Ivorian referee Clement Franklin Kpan, who officiated the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Acting on the advice of the Minister of Sports, the Liberia Football Association (LFA) submitted the complaint on March 20,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503250460.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congo Town \u2014 The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has confirmed receiving a formal complaint from Liberia following the Lone Star&#8217;s 1-0 defeat to Tunisia on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in the ongoing World Cup qualifiers. The protest centers on allegations of officiating misconduct by Ivorian referee Clement Franklin Kpan, who officiated the match. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194487,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,6824,6531,9109,8536,50958,257,2194,18966,14812,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-194486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confirms","tag-defeat","tag-fifa","tag-liberias","tag-liberiatunisia","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-receipt","tag-referee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/194486","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}