{"id":11004,"date":"2024-01-11T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2024-01-11T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:39:11","slug":"a-historic-event-awaits-yamashita-in-the-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/a-historic-event-awaits-yamashita-in-the-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"A historic Event Awaits Yamashita in the Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asian Football Confederation confirmed, Thursday evening, that Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita will officiate a match in the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar, between Australia and India on January 13, 2024, thus becoming the first woman to officiate a match in the history of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Yamashita is considered the first professional female referee from Japan to receive the FIFA badge in 2015, and she was the first woman to officiate a Japanese League match in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, she was one of 6 female referees selected for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Yamashita was the main referee for the opening match of the Women&#8217;s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023, where she officiated two matches after that and served as the fourth official in two matches as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events The Asian Football Confederation confirmed, Thursday evening, that Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita will officiate a match in the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar, between Australia and India on January 13, 2024, thus becoming the first woman to officiate a match in the history of the tournament. Yamashita is considered the first professional &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11006,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}