{"id":37490,"date":"2026-06-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37490"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:00:43","slug":"ivory-coasts-wahi-cleared-for-canada-entry-ahead-of-germany-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ivory-coasts-wahi-cleared-for-canada-entry-ahead-of-germany-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast&#8217;s Wahi cleared for Canada entry ahead of Germany match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast international Elye Wahi will be allowed into Canada for his country&#8217;s World Cup group game against Germany tomorrow, after earlier being denied entry. Nanyunja will act as a strategic bridge between the two bodies, specifically overseeing early warning systems, rapid response protocols, and disease outbreak preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nice forward was reportedly arrested last month before the World Cup over alleged involvement in spot-fixing in Ligue 1. Wahi, who started Sunday&#8217;s World Cup win over Ecuador, has been accused of deliberately earning a yellow card while playing for Nice against Metz in May. Spot-fixing is the practice of deliberately affecting match incidents in a way that allows people to profit through betting markets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A statement to The Athletic from the public prosecutor&#8217;s office in Marseille confirmed a 23-year-old football player, competing in France&#8217;s Ligue 1, was arrested, without naming Wahi. On Wednesday, Ligue de Football confirmed they had been alerted to &#8220;an unusually high volume of bets placed on a warning involving the player Elye Wahi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ivory Coast&#8217;s football federation said it had not been told of any &#8220;judicial or administrative proceedings&#8221; against Wahi, but confirmed he had not been able to obtain authorisation to enter Canada until now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37491,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[305,20],"class_list":["post-37490","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-special-projects","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ivory Coast international Elye Wahi will be allowed into Canada for his country's World Cup group game","published_date":"2026-06-19 08:49:31","news_description":"Ivory Coast international Elye Wahi will be allowed into Canada for his country's World Cup group game","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37492,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37490\/revisions\/37492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}