Like the 1-0 scoreline that helped salvage Ghana's campaign at the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea, the 1-0 win by Ashgold in the CAF Champions League last weekend, looks like a good, first step to strike gold.
Havedzi Mighty Warriors will be looking forward to build on their brilliant start to the second round of the 2015/2016 CAL Bank Beach Soccer League season when they clash with Nungua Krowo Beach Soccer Club (BSC) at the Laboma Beach Soccer Arena at La in Accra tomorrow.
Ghana Tennis Federation’s (GTF’s) main partner and key sponsor of the national tennis team, Golden Rackets, McDan Group of Companies, has pledged to sponsor this year’s Tennis Professionals of Ghana (TPG)/GTF National Ranking tournament scheduled for Kumasi next month.
Mc Dan is supporting the seven-day competion with GH¢40,000 and it adds to more than three tournaments being sponsored by the company, including its flagship competition, the McDan Open.
The McDan Open competition goes international this year with the assembling of the continent’s great players and some known names across the globe.
The National Ranking in Kumasi is, therefore, to serve as a prelude to the McDan Open of which the winner is expected to take home $30,000.
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has sanctioned the assistant coach of Ashanti Gold Sporting Club, Yakubu Mambo, and the club for their unsportmanlike conduct that brought this year’s Super Cup into disrepute.
The two breached some sections of article 35 of the GFA’s General Regulations when they boycotted the award ceremony after the match played on January 31.
A charge sheet signed by the GFA prosecutor, Raphael Tottimeh, and made available to the Daily Graphic, said assistant coach Mambo was charged with inciting, encouraging and directing the players and technical team of the club against the directive of the Match Commissioner in charge of the Super Cup to go for their medals from the dignatries.
The immediate past coach of the Black Bombers, Ofori Asare, will conduct an AIBA 2-Star certification coaching course in Cameroun ahead of the Olympic qualifiers in March.
The Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Brigadier General Martin Ahiaglo (retd) has pledged the support of the NLA for the 2016 Peace Match aimed at maintaining peace during and after the presidential and parliamentary elections in November.
Brigadier General Ahiaglo (retd) said without a peaceful atmosphere in the country, the operations of all corporate bodies would be halted, hence the need for corporate Ghana to support the Peace Match.
The national badminton team won four medals, comprising one silver and three bronze, at the just ended Rose Hill Series Championship held at Mauritius over the weekend.
Emmanuel Donkor and Gifty Mensah won silver medal for Ghana after battling with Mauritius pair, Edoo and Lousison, in the mixed doubles final event.
A former board member of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Kennedy Agyapong Kenpong has expressed his heartfelt condolences to the wife and family of the murdered Abuakwa North MP, J.B. Danquah-Adu.
With all the uncertainties surrounding the annual national Premier League, it is no wonder that the whole national attention is geared towards the continental club championships — the CAF Champions League which has Ashgold competing and the CAF Confederation Cup which beckons the relatively young Medeama SC of Tarkwa.
Left back Steven Oppong, is unhappy with life at Unity FC, a Division One League club and wants to terminate his contract and move on.
The poor state of the tartan tracks at the El-Wak Stadium will prove a major obstacle for athletes when the first Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) Championship takes place on Saturday.
Premier League side, Wa All Stars is back in the country after a 10-day training tour of Saudi Arabia to prepare towards the forthcoming Ghana Premier League on February 20.
Accra Hearts of Oak are set to confound many including their critics this season as the Premier League is set to kick off on Sunday.
A referee was murdered on the football pitch just moments after he showed a player a red card in Argentina.
Cesar Flores, 48, was shot three times, in the head, chest and neck, by the attacker who is still at large and being hunted by authorities.
Another player was also shot in the chest but survived - 25-year-old Walter Zarate was rushed to hospital but is said to be recovering.
The incident, which took place in Campo de la Bribera, the provincial capital of Cordoba, Argentina, on Sunday, saw the man run onto the pitch and pull a gun from his backpack as the game was being played.
"It all happened during the match," police spokesman told the Efe news agency. "We don't know what happened with the referee but the player was angry and went to get his gun and killed him."
The Dormaa Ahenkro-based Aduana Stars last Sunday unveiled its 13 newly signed players ahead of the commencement of the 2016 Premier League with a resolve to be “the best or among the best” by the end of the season.
The occasion was also used to unveil the 48-seater KIA bus presented to the club by its owner and bankroller and Omanhene of the Dormaa Traditional Area, Osagyefo Oseadeeyor Agyeman Badu II.
