{"id":12489,"date":"2022-02-06T10:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T10:12:00","slug":"god-told-me-to-end-tunisia-vs-mali-afcon-match-early-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12489","title":{"rendered":"God told me to end Tunisia vs Mali Afcon  match early-Referee."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AFCON2021: I ended Tunisia vs Mali game before 90 minutes because God told me to do so \u2014 controversial referee, Janny Sikazwe<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Janny Sikazwe, the referee who blew for full-time early in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations clash between Tunisia and Mali, has claimed he could have died of heatstroke if the match went on any longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zambian official sparked controversy when he ended the group-stage fixture 13 seconds early on January 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1644141961794.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1644141961794.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1644141961794-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sikazwe had been forced to restart the match after blowing his full-time whistle five minutes before the full 90 minutes was up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia were losing 1-0 and playing against 10 men when Sikazwe ended the match early for a second time. It left members of their coaching staff furious and they stormed onto the pitch to confront the referee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Sikazwe has now thanked God for saving him from death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI have seen people going for duties outside the country and come back in a casket,\u201d he told reporters after arriving back in Zambia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was very close to coming back like that. I was lucky I didn\u2019t go into a coma. It would have been a very different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe doctors told me my body was not cooling down. It would have been just a little time before [I would have gone] into a coma, and that would have been the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI think God told me to end the match. He saved me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFCON2021: I ended Tunisia vs Mali game before 90 minutes because God told me to do so \u2014 controversial referee, Janny Sikazwe Janny Sikazwe, the referee who blew for full-time early in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations clash between Tunisia and Mali, has claimed he could have died of heatstroke if the match went &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}