Sports
Nigerian referee Ogunmuyiwa to officiate at Beach Soccer World Cup
The world football governing body, FIFA, has confirmed Nigerian referee Jelili Ogunmuyiwa as one of the 24 referees selected to officiate at the forthcoming 2017 Beach Soccer World Cup in Bahamas.
In the announcement made on FIFA website Friday, the 38-year old was picked alongside Tunisia’s Issam Bou Sbih and Madagascar’s Said Hachim as Africa’s representatives at this year’s tournament.
This is however the third time Ogunmuyiwa will be officiating at the Beach Soccer World Cup, having done so in 2011 (Italy) and 2015 (Portugal).
Read Also: Beach Soccer: Sand Eagles prepare for return to world stage
He also officiates in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), and was with the whistle at the final of the 2015 Beach Soccer Afcon which was between reigning champions Senegal and Madagascar.
In the other referees selections announced, North and Central America have three, South America have five, Europe have eight, four from Asia and one from Oceania.
The Beach Soccer tournament comes up from April 27 to May 27 in Bahamas.
Meanwhile, the Sand Super Eagles of Nigeria are in Group B with Mexico, Italy and Iran. And the team will open their campaign on April 27 against Italy, before battling Mexico and Iran on the 29th and 1st of May respectively.
RipplesNigeria ….without borders, without fears
Click here to download the Ripples Nigeria App for latest updates
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...