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born 1992 Somalia
Omar Abdulkadir Artan (born 6 June 1992) is a Somali football referee. Artan was the first referee from Somalia to take charge of a continental final, overseeing Egyptian side Pyramids FC's 2024–25 CAF Champions League triumph over South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns in Cairo.
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I promise you, God willing, that I will attend the next one, I want the Somali public to take comfort in this and remain confident.
This will be my first match in Europe. Having adventures, making memories and learning new things is always great.
What happened has happened and it was unfortunate. I am grateful for the support Fifa gave me.
I believe that if I can succeed, anyone can. You can do whatever you want to do.
Somalia is ours, whether things are good or bad. I want to tell our youth not to lose hope in our country. I am now in my country, and there is no other place I want to be.
I was lucky, but I have worked very hard to be here and I’m really proud, As you can imagine, I grew up in a difficult situation, but it didn’t prevent me from pursuing my dreams.
We referees go through a lot of preparation in terms of getting to know the teams, I always watch the teams play. I like watching European football anyway but, regardless, I go through and do a lot of research on the teams, how they play, learn their behaviours, tactics and a lot of things like that.
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