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FIFA \u2018aware of serious allegation\u2019 following UK arrest of match official who will now not be listed for World Cup.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 28 Apr 2026<\/span>28 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A football match official who was a potential pick to work at the men\u2019s World Cup in North America was arrested for an alleged sexual assault at a hotel while in Britain for a game.<\/p>\n World Cup organiser FIFA said on Tuesday that it was \u201caware of the serious allegation\u201d, after details of an alleged assault of a teenage boy were first reported by British daily The Sun.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cIn the meantime, the match official will not be considered for any FIFA competition matches,\u201d the football governing body said in a statement.<\/p>\n FIFA published a list this month of 52 referees, 88 assistant referees and 30 video match officials selected for the 104-game World Cup being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19.<\/p>\n The match official was not identified in reports, nor was the European competition game he was working at for UEFA.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are monitoring the situation with great concern and will continue to follow developments closely,\u201d UEFA said.<\/p>\n UEFA added that it also will not be selecting the official for its games, and the alleged incident was part of \u201can active investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n The Sun reported that the Metropolitan Police in London released a man in his 30s on bail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n FIFA \u2018aware of serious allegation\u2019 following UK arrest of match official who will now not be listed for World Cup. Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026 A football match official who was a potential pick to work at the men\u2019s World Cup in North America was arrested for an alleged sexual assault at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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