UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin poured praise on the Somali referee in a statement released a few hours before FIFA's flagship World Cup was to start. | Football News

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan has been dropped from officiating at the World Cup after being barred from entering the United States, world football's governing body FIFA…

A Fifa official since 2018, Omar Artan was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals