In Somalia wird einem Schiedsrichter die Einreise in die USA zur Weltmeisterschaft verweigert

A crowd of supporters, blue-bereted police and journalists jostled to get close to the plane that had just taxied to the terminal ramp.

Stepping off the airliner was not a victorious soccer team, however, but rather the man who has become an emblem of what critics say are America’s strict anti-immigration policies colliding with the world’s biggest sporting event.

Omar Artan, 34, was meant to be the first Somali referee to officiate at a World Cup, selected for the tournament starting Thursday in the United States, Canada and Mexico. But after landing Saturday in Miami, where the referees’ training base is, [he was detained and questioned for 11 hours](https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/soccer/somali-referee-world-cup-denied-us-entry-rcna349108), he says, before being sent back home.

The biggest event on earth and the US is using every possible opportunity to get bad press from it. They couldn’t be doing a worse job if this was planned by committee.

Russia used the world cup to present a new vision of what the country was. China used the beijing olympics to show the world of rise as a new great power, the US is using the greatest event on earth to be petty, cruel and vindictive for no reason.

They should have never been chosen in the first place tbh

So, only South African referees allowed now?