Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, last Wednesday night jetted out for yet another sojourn of Europe with the approval of the Ghana Football Association(GFA) to monitor players over the next few weeks.
The Stars coach was asked to return to the country prior to Ghana’s AFCON qualifier last month (against Mozambique) after a two- month absence which saw him appear on UK- based sports channel Sky Sports and left many Ghanaians fuming.
The head coach of Accra Hearts of Oak, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, has defended the fitness of his team and thrown a challenge to critics, particularly Techiman City owner, Charles Kwadwo Ntim (Micky Charles), who claims the amazing stamina being displayed by the Hearts players and the club’s sudden turnaround in form could be due to the influence of dope.
The Japanese-American coach says his players stamina is due to hard work and is ready to avail the players to tests in the presence of his critics.
Ahead of Sunday’s clash in Techiman, Micky Charles stirred up a hornet’s nest asking for the Hearts players to undergo doping tests.
Head coach of the Black Stars, Avram Grant, has finally accepted payment of his winning bonus in the match between the Black Stars and Mozambique in the local currency after earlier rejecting it.
The Israeli trainer reportedly returned to the Ministry of Youth and Sports a cheque for payment of his winning bonus for Ghana’s 3-1 victory over Mozambique in a Nations Cup qualifier on the grounds that he did not operate a cedi account and demanded payment in dollars.
However, the coach made a u-turn on his decision last Tuesday after meeting the Minister of Youth and Sports in the company of FA officials after which he reportedly apologised for his action and promised not to repeat it.
The Ghana Shooting Sports Federation (GSSF) will undertake an eight-day training session with its national team, the Black Snipers, under the tutelage of Olympic Instructor, Nemanja Mirosavljev.
Accra Hearts of Oak have been drawn against Division One side Samartex in their MTN FA Cup round of 32 encounter, while rivals Asante Kotoko play Division Two Real 24 Hours FC.
Ghana has moved up three places in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola rankings released Thursday, to now perch at the 38th position. Previously Ghana logged in at the 41st position before recording a win and a draw against Mozambique in March.
Two promising stars at the end of last Saturday’s National Rankings tennis competition in Kumasi, Emmanuel Plange and Marcel Agbegue, have earned a special sponsorship package from the sponsors, Ismaila Tennis & Sports Shop, the official agent of Babolat equpment tennis in Ghana, to be put on ‘futures’ to develop their talents to help the national team.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, will join Joy FM presenter Kwame Sekyiama, better known as Lexis Bill, and hundreds of people from all walks of life on Saturday morning to undertake a rigorous exercise of climbing the Aburi mountain and back for the maiden ‘Walk with Lexis’ fitness campaign.
Togo have appointed Claude LeRoy as their new national team coach to replace Tom Saintfiet. Frenchman LeRoy, 68, has worked on the continent for almost 30 years and has coached at a record eight Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.
This year’s Teshie District Presby Church Junior Youth (JY) games comes on at the Teshie Aboma Presby Church grounds on Saturday, April 9, 2016 from 8 a.m.
The Ghana Football Association(GFA) has charged Accra Hearts of Oak on three counts for their violent conduct in their 3-1 home defeat to Wa All Stars last Sunday.
The Phobians were said to have breached Articles 58 and 59 of the GFA Disciplinary Code and Articles 35(1)(a), 35(3)(b), 35(4), 35(7)(a) and 35(7)(d) of the GFA General Regulations.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has commended officials of the 4 Garrison Tennis Club for investing in tennis and making steady growth in the sport despite its neglect.
Ghana's senior female football team, the Black Queens, yesterday gained a 2-1 advantage over Tunisia in the first leg of their final round African Women's Championship (AWC) qualifiers.
It was a dramatic comeback for the Queens who had to fight from a goal down , and playing with 10 players, to win, courtesy goals in the second half from Samira Suleman and Princella Adubea.
Sports historian and administrator, James Oyedeji has been reported dead.
He died at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra on Monday after a short illness.
Two Korean boxers, welterweight Lee Kyu Suk and Jeon Byung Yun, a super welterweight, have begun training tour of Accra to develop their boxing skills.
