{"id":196077,"date":"2025-04-15T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/liberia-egypt-caf-picks-liberian-referee-emmanuel-mensah-for-u-20-championship-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:54:48","slug":"liberia-egypt-caf-picks-liberian-referee-emmanuel-mensah-for-u-20-championship-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/liberia-egypt-caf-picks-liberian-referee-emmanuel-mensah-for-u-20-championship-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia\/Egypt: CAF Picks Liberian Referee Emmanuel Mensah for U-20 Championship in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has selected FIFA-badged Liberian referee Emmanuel Mensah for the upcoming U-20 Men&#8217;s Championship, scheduled to be held in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Mensah was named among a list of central referees, assistant referees, VAR officials, coaches, assessors, and VAR technicians representing various African nations. The list was released by CAF on April 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The TotalEnergies Egypt 2025 U-20 Championship is set to take place from April 27 to May 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Mensah&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504140659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has selected FIFA-badged Liberian referee Emmanuel Mensah for the upcoming U-20 Men&#8217;s Championship, scheduled to be held in Egypt. Mensah was named among a list of central referees, assistant referees, VAR officials, coaches, assessors, and VAR technicians representing various African nations. The list was released by CAF on April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196078,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,3742,6843,4697,415,10334,26290,1090,34413,257,5231,14812,254,8350],"class_list":["post-196077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-championship","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-emmanuel","tag-liberiaegypt","tag-liberian","tag-mensah","tag-news","tag-picks","tag-referee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u20"],"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\/196077","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=196077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}