Traditional giants, Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko, recorded mixed fortunes at the weekend as the much-awaited 2015/16 Premier League kicked off after West Africa Football Academy (WAFA) sent early warning signals with a 2-0 home win over Kotoko at Sogakope, while Hearts got their campaign off to a winning start with a 1-0 home win over New Edubiase United.
Eight selected players from the Accra Lawn Tennis Club (ALTC), who also play for the national tennis team, will face- off in the first ever “Douglas Djabeng Top 8 Hitters Tournament” from today to Friday. The games begin at 4p.m.
Enterprising boxer, Isaac Dogboe, says he is ready for any challenge after pummelling Michael Pappoe over 12 rounds in their WBO Africa and Interim WBA PAN African Featherweight championship at the Azumah Nelson sports Complex last Saturday.
Dogboe dominated from start to finish and met no resistance from a bewildered Pappoe.
New entrants, Conquerors SC, marked a sensational debut season after blowing away Dansoman Hurricanes 28-3 to win the 2015/16 Ghana Rugby Club Championship (GRCC) after the final match played at the Accra Sports Stadium.
They took home gold medals, a trophy and a cash prize of GH¢4,000 while Hurricances received silver medals, a trophy and GH¢3,000 cash.
Cosmos Buffaloes RFC the bronze medals, received a trophy and GH¢2,000 cash for finishing third.
Kumasi Asante Kotoko ‘s Premier League campaign last Saturday suffered a jolt as West Africa Academy(WAFA) hammered them 2-0 at Sogakope
Two first half goals by Ropapa Kwamina Mensah and Issac Twum powered Tema-based side, Inter Allies, to victory over Aduana Stars in their Premier League encounter yesterday at the Tema Park.
Ropapa headed home a Twum cross in the 19th minute while the latter made it 2-0 after 39 minutes.
The first 20 minutes saw the visitors dominating play but were soon to lose their tactical discipline allowing the home side to dictate the pace and eventually running away with the victory
Accra Hearts of Oak fans yesterday went wild with jubiliation into the night as they handed visiting New Edubiase a 1-0 defeat at the Accra Sports Stadium to open their Premier League campaign this season.
But the Phobians had to rely on striker Sam Yeboah's late goal to burst the bubble of a stubborn Edubiase side to carry the day before a huge crowd.
Yeboah's goal unsettled the visitors, who employed delayed tactics in a bid to hold the Phobians until Yoboah’s 78th minute strike from Robin Gnagne’s header dashed their hopes.
Barely two weeks after Ashgold succumbed to Medeama SC in the season-opening GFA Super Cup, both teams cross each other’s path again at the Obuasi Len Clay stadium as the Soccer Miners begin their Premier League title defence at home on Sunday.
For some of us, the spectacle of Claudio Ranieri’s flying Foxes soaring at rarefied heights evokes memories of 30 years ago and another title challenge which emerged from nowhere to compel astonished attention until the final whistle sounded on a campaign of Neapolitan theatricality.
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.
