{"id":1240,"date":"2018-06-21T06:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2018-06-21T06:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:16:19","slug":"american-teacher-officiate-nigeria-iceland-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"American Teacher To Officiate Nigeria, Iceland Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s Matthew Conger will officiate Nigeria\u2019s Rusia 2018 second Group D match against Iceland on Friday at Volgograd.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old American who resides and teaches in Palmerston North in New Zealand will be assisted by Simon Lount of New Zealand and Tevita Makasini, a Tongan high school tutor.<\/p>\n<p>The News\u00a0<em>Agency of\u00a0<\/em>Nigeria reports that Lount was born and raised in Leicester in England and works for a company which supplies furniture fittings and architectural hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Lount will be the match\u2019s Assistant Referee 1 (AR1), while Makasini is the Assistant Referee 2 (AR2).<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Montero of Costa Rica will be the Fourth Official, while Hiroshi Yamauchi of Japan will be the Reserve Assistant Referee (RAR).<\/p>\n<p>While this is going to be the first outing in the 2018 competition for Conger and the two assistant referees, Montero and Yamauchi are however different.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to be having their second outing, having been involved in Monday\u2019s game between Tunisia and England in Volgograd.<\/p>\n<p>(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s Matthew Conger will officiate Nigeria\u2019s Rusia 2018 second Group D match against Iceland on Friday at Volgograd. The 39-year-old American who resides and teaches in Palmerston North in New Zealand will be assisted by Simon Lount of New Zealand and Tevita Makasini, a Tongan high school tutor. The News\u00a0Agency of\u00a0Nigeria reports that Lount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1035,951,766,92],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-american","tag-iceland","tag-match","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}