{"id":3985,"date":"2024-01-25T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:06:03","slug":"bouchra-karboubi-the-first-female-referee-to-officiate-at-afcon-details-her-opinions-on-the-art-of-refereeing-and-var","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/01\/25\/bouchra-karboubi-the-first-female-referee-to-officiate-at-afcon-details-her-opinions-on-the-art-of-refereeing-and-var\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>BOUCHRA KARBOUBI: THE FIRST FEMALE REFEREE TO OFFICIATE AT AFCON DETAILS HER OPINIONS ON THE ART OF REFEREEING AND VAR<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Moroccan referee, Bouchra Karboubi is one of the six female officials at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in La C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. In this interview, she discusses her motivations for becoming a referee, the challenges she faced and still faces in what was traditionally male dominated sphere and also gives fascinating insights into the world of referees and the importance of Video Assistant Referee (VAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bouchra Karboubi\" width=\"1220\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KVbsREKjkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccan referee, Bouchra Karboubi is one of the six female officials at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in La C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. In this interview,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4],"tags":[88,111,120,81,532,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}