Top African referee refused access to US before 2026 World Cup
A top referee selected to work the 2026 World Cup was barred from entering the United States despite having a valid travel visa, according to The Guardian.
๐บ๐ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ยท "REFER" ยท ์ด 152๊ฑด
ํํฐ ๋ณด๊ธฐํ์ฌ ์ง์
50.0
0 = ๋ถ์ ์ฐ์ธ
50 = ์ค๋ฆฝ
100 = ๊ธ์ ์ฐ์ธ
์ต๊ทผ 7์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค 12,036๊ฑด์ ๋ถ์ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ด์ค ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง์๋ 50.0(๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธ์ 1๊ฑด(0.0%)ยท์ค๋ฆฝ 12,034๊ฑด(100.0%)ยท๋ถ์ 1๊ฑด(0.0%)์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค๋ฆฝ ๋น์ค์ด ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑํฅ ์ง์๋ ์ข ํฉ 19.5(์ค๋ ๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค.
A top referee selected to work the 2026 World Cup was barred from entering the United States despite having a valid travel visa, according to The Guardian.
Omar Artan was one of 52 referees selected for the FIFA World Cup. But on Saturday he was denied entry because of โvetting concerns,โ U.S. officials said.
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The referee was "determined to be inadmissible due to vetting concerns and was denied entry," a CBP spokesperson said, without going into further detail.
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