{"id":30626,"date":"2021-02-06T21:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=30626"},"modified":"2021-02-06T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:22:43","slug":"all-emirati-refereeing-team-to-officiate-in-semi-final-of-fifa-club-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/02\/06\/all-emirati-refereeing-team-to-officiate-in-semi-final-of-fifa-club-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Emirati refereeing team to officiate in semi-final of FIFA Club World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A team of Emirati referees will share the pitch with European Champs, FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen, in their Monday&#8217;s semi-final clash at the FIFA Club World Cup- Qatar with Egyptian giants Al Ahly SC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arbitration squad, led by International Referee, Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, and assisted by Mohamed Ahmed Yousof and Hasan Al Mahri, are the first all-Emirati refereeing team to officiate in the world championship in recognition of their impressive performance during their previous regional and international participations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bayern Munich are one of only four teams with a 100 percent winning record in the FIFA Club World Cup. Internazionale, Milan and Sao Paulo are the other three clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, Al Ahly SC will go into Monday&#8217;s match full of confidence, with the nine-times African champs now unbeaten in 32 games. The Cairo club is appearing at the Club World Cup for a sixth time, endeavouring to improve on their previous best showing &#8211; when they won the bronze medal in 2006, in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UAE&#8217;s giants Al-Ain qualified in 2018 for their first Club World Cup as the champs of the UAE Pro-League. Al-Ain were the first Emirati team to reach the Club World Cup final, as well as the second Asian team after Kashima Antlers in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Emirati referees will share the pitch with European Champs, FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen, in their Monday&#8217;s semi-final clash at the FIFA Club World Cup- Qatar with Egyptian giants Al Ahly SC. The arbitration squad, led by International Referee, Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, and assisted by Mohamed Ahmed Yousof and Hasan Al Mahri, are the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30628,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30626\/revisions\/30628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}