Kumasi Asante Kotoko recorded their first victory of the season after defeating Sekondi Hasaacas 1-0 at the Baba Yara Stadium yesterday to restore smiles on the faces of their followers.
Kotoko laboured hard until Kwame Boateng scored in the 71st minute to hand the Porcupine Warriors a deserved win, having wasted many scoring chances in the first half against a difficult Hasaacas side.
Tema-based Inter Allies are optimistic of victory against Accra Hearts of Oak in their Premier League week five clash at the Tema Stadium tomorrow.
Hearts currently lead the league log with 10 points and are undefeated after four matches, while Inter Allies have had a patchy run so far. Coach Herbert Addo’s team won 2-0 against Aduana Stars, lost 1-2 to Liberty Professionals away, secured a 2-2 draw at home with Dreams FC and held New Edubiase United to a scoreless draw last Sunday.
Now in 10th position, having scored five goals and conceded four, Inter-Allies will have to devise a way to get past a mean Hearts defence which has conceded just one goal in four games.
The executive members of Die-Hard Supporters Union have expressed their profund gratitude to the management of National Investment Bank (NIB) for coming to their aid ahead of Ghana’s AFCON qualifier against Mozambique next Thursday, March 24.
The Professional Footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG) will on Monday launch a welfare fund designed to cater for professional footballers based in Ghana and abroad in the event of accidental death or critical illness.
According to a press release issued by the PFAG last Wednesday, the launch of the fund, christened PFAG Insurance and Life After Football Fund, will take place at 6.30p.m. on March 21 at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
Ghana Athletics is banking its hope of winning medals at this weekend's World Indoor Championship on her trio, Flings Owusu-Agyapong (60m), Emmanuel Dasor (400m) and Sean Safo-Antwi (60m), earlier this month, successfully had a nationality switch from Britain.
The trio will be among the 500 athletes who have converged in Portland, Oregon, USA to compete for medals in track and field's first major event ahead of this year's Olympics in Rio, Brazil.
The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) is convinced the performances of these three athletes so far in the indoor event, gives great hope for Ghana to get her name on the medals table.
Two members of the national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers, appear set to secure their qualification for the Rio Olympics Games at the ongoing African Olympic Boxing qualifiers in Yaounde, Cameroun.
Aduana Stars’ leading striker, Yahaya Mohammed, is pleading the supporters of the club to exercise restraint as he takes steps to rediscover his scoring form.
Former Black Stars and Kumasi Asante Kotoko legend, Joseph Carr, has hailed the recall of Adam Kwarasey to the senior national team, saying the Stars are currently without a substantive goalkeeper and, therefore, the inclusion of the Portland Timbers goalkeeper will encourage a healthy competition among the goalkeepers in the team.
The Accra Central Police have granted bail to controversial boxer Braimah Kamoko (Bukom Banku) after he allegedly assaulted four of his cousins in a brawl a fortnight ago.
The President of Medeama Sporting Club, Moses Armah, has predicted a 3-0 victory over Al-Ittihad of Libya at Essipon on Sunday to book their place in 1/16th stage of the CAF Confederation Cup.
League leaders of Zone One of the Division One League (DOL), Berlin FC, are poised to maintain their impressive start to the season when they host third- placed Berekum Arsenal at the Techiman Park tomorrow.
Vincent Odotei Sowah, chairman of the Strategic Management Committee of Accra Hearts of Oak, has disclosed that the club bagged GH¢102,215.00 (gross) as gate proceeds from the last Premier League game against Bechem United at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The second edition of the highly acclaimed international millennium marathon will commence its preparatory regional marathons on March 19 in the Northern regional capital of Tamale.
George Afriyie, the vice president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), says the association will not resist any attempt by government to slash the winning bonuses of the Black Stars players.
This afternoon, the Baba Yara Stadium will witness one of a dicey duels as Kumasi Asante Kotoko play host stubborn Sekondi Hasaacas.
Both Kotoko and Hasaacas need a win badly to appease their fans who are already fuming with rage after both teams suffered some humiliating defeats in the one-month-old Ghana Premier League.
However, at Tema, high-flying Accra Hearts of Oak will seek to maintain their impressive run when they play as guests of Inter Allies in a potential thriller on Sunday.
