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Agencies – Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n The head of the FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina, confirmed that \u201cviolence against referees is a cancer that can kill football,\u201d calling for action to address this phenomenon \u201cbefore it is too late.\u201d<\/p>\n Collina stressed: \u201cVerbal and physical violence against referees is a cancer that can kill football. It is the responsibility of all those who love the great game to take action and do something, before it is too late.\u201d<\/p>\n He stressed: \u201cThis cancer is killing football,\u201d following the attack on a referee in Turkey, which led to the suspension of all professional competitions without setting a date for their resumption.<\/p>\n In a letter published by FIFA, Colina described the victim, Halil Umut Miller, as \u201ca very good referee and a very good person.\u201d<\/p>\n He revealed that he met him at the Under-20 World Cup in Argentina earlier this year, stressing \u201cneither a referee nor anyone deserves to live the experience that Miller went through in Ankara\u201d when \u201che was doing his job and was assaulted on the field at the end of the match.\u201d “..<\/p>\n Colina continued: \u201cThe image of him falling on the grass and protecting his head with his hands while being beaten with a bruise under his eye is horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agencies – Sudan Events The head of the FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina, confirmed that \u201cviolence against referees is a cancer that can kill football,\u201d calling for action to address this phenomenon \u201cbefore it is too late.\u201d Collina stressed: \u201cVerbal and physical violence against referees is a cancer that can kill football. It is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","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\/7688","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}