»Mohamed Salad, a Somali football journalist, recalls that, “His first match at AFCON was Namibia vs Tunisia in 2024. Thousands of us tuned in just to watch him. We were checking the refereeing schedules to see when his next game was—who does that?”«
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The exclusion of Somali referee Omar Artan hardens the contradiction at the heart of the 2026 World Cup: a global tournament increasingly shaped by the politics of exclusion.
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The exclusion of Somali referee Omar Artan hardens the contradiction at the heart of the 2026 World Cup: a global tournament increasingly shaped by the politics of exclusion.