{"id":238327,"date":"2026-07-09T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-files-official-fifa-complaint-over-referee-decisions-in-argentina-defeat\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:04:09","slug":"egypt-files-official-fifa-complaint-over-referee-decisions-in-argentina-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-files-official-fifa-complaint-over-referee-decisions-in-argentina-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Files Official FIFA Complaint Over Referee Decisions in Argentina Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Cape Town \u2014 Egypt&#8217;s football federation filed a formal complaint with FIFA after its team&#8217;s Round of 16 exit from the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Egyptian Football Association says the match officiating crew, headed by French referee Fran\u00e7ois Letexier, showed bias against the Egyptian side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Under manager Hossam Hassan, Egypt led 2-0 late into the second half before conceding three unanswered goals, <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00097371.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">losing<\/a> 3-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"90\">EFA president Hany Abo Rida, 73, submitted the complaint to FIFA and is demanding an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Cape Town \u2014 Egypt&#8217;s football federation filed a formal complaint with FIFA after its team&#8217;s Round of 16 exit from the World Cup. The Egyptian Football Association says the match officiating crew, headed by French referee Fran\u00e7ois Letexier, showed bias against the Egyptian side. Under manager Hossam Hassan, Egypt led 2-0 late into the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,15702,8389,14296,6531,4697,415,9109,14573,257,5092,14812,254],"class_list":["post-238327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-argentina","tag-complaint","tag-decisions","tag-defeat","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-fifa","tag-files","tag-news","tag-official","tag-referee","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238327","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=238327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}