Newly appointed coach of Accra Great Olympics, Godwin Attram, has tipped Kumasi Asante Kotoko as favourites to win this year’s Premier League despite the Porcupine Warrior’s poor start to the season.
It was all thrills at the Accra Turf Club’s Whitsun Race Meeting last Saturday as Mr K from the Omar Sattout stable emerged winner of the main race, the Division 3B Invitation Race.
Sattout Omar stable’s Mr K, was once again the runaway winner in last Saturday’s Division 3B invitation race of the Whitsun Race Meeting, winning by almost four lengths for her first overjoyed trainer Samuel Bampoh Botchway at the Accra Turf Club (ATC) at Ashaley Botwe, near the University Farms.
Seasoned golfer, Beatrice Vetsch-Bempong, left the Achimota Golf Club as the winner of this month’s Ladies Monthly Medal prize.
It was a sweet and sour saga for giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak, last Saturday as Kotoko called the bluff of Tumu Real 24 Hours FC in their backyard only for the Phobians to be bundled out by Division One Samartex in their MTN FA Cup round of 32 thriller at Samreboi.
Hearts coach, Kenichi Yastuhashi, has revealed that salaries and bonuses of his players and technical staff have not been paid for months now, a situation which could affect morale in the Phobian camp.
The head coach of Medeama Sporting Club, Tom Christian Strand, says he is confident his team will be the ultimate winners of their second-leg game against Sudanese side Al Ahly Shendi, which will be held at the Essipon Stadium on Wednesday.
Hundreds of spectators are expected to throng the Accra Turf Club this afternoon as horse racing activities return to the club for horses in Divisions 4C, 4A, 3B and novices.
The event, dubbed “Whitsun Race Meeting”, is under the distinguished patronage of President John Dramani Mahama.
It begins at 1.30p.m and will attract a flat rate of GHC2.
The meeting will witness horses such as Let Them Say, Rule of Law, Young Man, Korle Gonno Boy and Omo Ni Ole, ridden by some talented jockeys, battle for honours.
Giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, face daunting task to eliminate little known Division One side, Real 24 Hours FC, to consolidate their hope of annexing the MTN FA Cup title when the two teams meet today at the Tumu Park in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region.
Aside the current turbulence in the camp of the Porcupine Warriors, they also have expressed discomfort in travelling up north to face their opponents on a grassless pitch which they explained had the potential to harm their players.
France Football magazine has named Black Stars Captain, Asamoah Gyan, as the 19th richest player in the world and second-rated in Africa.
This was exclusively published in its annual Football Rich List.
Gyan has been tipped by many as the wealthiest Ghanaian footballer ever and this latest confirmation is expected to settle that debate once and for all.
Man City midfielder and Elephants’ skipper, Yaya Toure, tops the African list, while placing 17th in the world.
After months of waiting, the fourth season of the National Women's League (NWL) kicks off this weekend with 16 clubs challenging one another not just for pride and bragging rights, but a brand new trophy.
Despite winning the league three times in a row and now have the old trophy as their bonafide property, defending champions Sekondi Hasaacas are relishing the chance of winning the new trophy.
The fixtures as released by the Women's League Board (WLB), organisers of the NWL, have some interesting match-ups in the 16-club competition, with no reprieve for the debutants.
The ongoing National Table Tennis League reaches its second week tomorrow at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall at the Accra Sports Stadium with defending champions Immigration expected to continue with their winning ways as they come face to face with Tesano Spinners.
The Immigration lads defeated Synergy Club 3-0 and Madina Club 3-0 in the opening week clashes last Saturday.
Accra Great Olympics’ newly appointed coach, Godwin Attram, says his target is to bring the Wonder Club back to the Premier League.
Attram re-joined Olympics during the second half of the 2014/2015 Ghana Premier League season and decided to stay even after the club was relegated.
The maiden Indomie Youth and Junior Inter-Club Weightlifting competition takes place tomorrow at the National Weightlifting Training Centre at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The competition, which is aimed at exposing weightlifting as a sporting discipline to as many school going kids as possible, is expected to attract about 40 young weightlifters representing various clubs across the country.
Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, the Accra Turf Club begins its Whitsun Race Meeting tomorrow with four races open to horses in divisions 4C, 4A, 3B and novices.
The first race of the day, which begins at 1.30 pm, will feature five horses in Division 4C competing over a distance of six furlongs.
