{"id":81587,"date":"2026-01-14T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81587"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:08:34","slug":"afcon-2025-ghanas-laryea-to-referee-morocco-vs-nigeria-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/14\/afcon-2025-ghanas-laryea-to-referee-morocco-vs-nigeria-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Ghana\u2019s Laryea to Referee Morocco vs Nigeria Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football has appointed Ghanaian referee Daniel Laryea to officiate today\u2019s AFCON 2025 semi-final between hosts Morocco and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be played at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, with kick-off set for 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>Laryea, 38, will be handling his second game of the tournament, having earlier taken charge of Burkina Faso\u2019s 1-0 group-stage loss to Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>CAF\u2019s selection of the FIFA-listed referee underscores the significance of the encounter, widely regarded as a \u201cfinal before the final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laryea will be assisted by Zakhele Siwela of South Africa, Souru Phatsoane of Lesotho and Arsenio Maringule of Mozambique, while Samuel Uwikunda will serve as fourth official.<\/p>\n<p>Abongile Tom of South Africa will oversee VAR duties, assisted by Haythem Guirat of Tunisia and Stephen Onyango Yiembe of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>CAF also named Gabonese referee Pierre Atcho to officiate the other semi-final between Senegal and Egypt, scheduled for 6pm today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Confederation of African Football has appointed Ghanaian referee Daniel Laryea to officiate today\u2019s AFCON 2025 semi-final between hosts Morocco and Nigeria. The match will be played at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, with kick-off set for 9pm. Laryea, 38, will be handling his second game of the tournament, having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81589,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81587\/revisions\/81589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}