{"id":19996,"date":"2026-08-20T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/afghan-referees-nagoya-asian-games-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:41:57","slug":"afghan-referees-nagoya-asian-games-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/afghan-referees-nagoya-asian-games-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Afghan Judges to Officiate at Nagoya Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siddiqullah Nemat, Asadullah Tajik and Ajmal Ishaqzai, three referees from Afghanistan&#8217;s Kurash Federation, will officiate at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s National Olympic Committee said the event will be hosted by Japan and feature more than 45 countries competing in 41 sports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the body, the Nagoya Asian Games will begin on September 9, corresponding to 18 Sonbola of the current year, and will continue until October 4, corresponding to 12 \u0645\u06cc\u0632\u0627\u0646.<\/p>\n<p>Kurash is a martial sport that is also included in the programme of some regional and Asian competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Afghan referees will officiate at the Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, which will feature over 45 countries in 41 sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}