{"id":129029,"date":"2019-06-22T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129029"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T10:57:23","slug":"nigeria-vs-burundi-referee-match-officials-for-afcon-2019-game-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129029","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Burundi: Referee, match officials for AFCON 2019 game revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AFCON.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday, named Seychellois Bernard Camille, as the centre referee for Nigeria\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group B opener against Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>Camille became an international referee in 2011 and has featured in every CAF senior competition since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old will be assisted by Berne Tesfagiorgis O\u2019Michael from Eritrea and Mohammed Ibrahim from Sudan with Mauritius\u2019 Ahmad Heeralall serving as the fourth official.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Camille officiated a game involving a Nigerian side was in April 2018, when Akwa United defeated Sudanese side Al Hilal 3-1 at the Nest of Champions in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerians bowed out of the two-legged CAF Confederation Cup tie on away goals.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game will kick off at 6pm West African time at the Alexandria Stadium in Egypt.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday, named Seychellois Bernard Camille, as the centre referee for Nigeria\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group B opener against Burundi. Camille became an international referee in 2011 and has featured in every CAF senior competition since 2013. The 43-year-old will be assisted by Berne Tesfagiorgis O\u2019Michael from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[128,4046],"class_list":["post-129029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-egypt","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}