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.
Newly promoted division two side, Hope For Future FC, are looking forward to making it to the Division One League in the upcoming Greater Accra Division Two League season.
Being the only Division Two Club at Osu in the Klottey Korley Constituency in Accra, the team is looking out for sponsorship from corporate entities operating in the constituency.
After winning the girls’ 3,000 metres in a time of 10:44.22 minutes at last year’s National Schools and Colleges athletics competition in Wa, Charlotte Fordjour has set her sights on bigger goals and is working her way to becoming the dominant athlete in her field in future.
At 17 and a junior athlete, Charlotte has been motivated by her feat at the Wa championship and is looking forward to improving steadily as well as enlisting in the Ghana Police Service in the coming years as she works hard both on her academics and sporting commitments.
IT’S been a long 10 weeks but this evening and tomorrow night finally see the return of the Champions League as the knockout stages begin with just 16 teams left.
Tonight, Chelsea will travel to Paris to face Prais Saint German (PSG) in what is fast becoming becoming a regular clash in the Champions League knockout round. They have met in the past two season and only away goals have seperated them then.
Ahead of the clash, security has been beefed up and hundreds of armed cops will be on duty around the Parc des Princes after suicide bombers tried to storm a match at the Stade de France last November
Hundreds of armed police will be on duty around the Parc des Princes ahead of the match.
The increased measures come in the wake of the horror attacks by Islamic extremists in November that left 130 people dead.
Three suicide bombers also attempted to storm the Stade de France where France were playing Germany that evening.
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The Ghana Handball Association (GHA) has directed all its regional associations to elect officers ahead of its national congress next month.
A statement issued by the GHA last Friday explained that the election of regional officers would pave way for the asociation to organise its national congress, where an executive would be elected to steer the affairs of handball in Ghana for the next four years.
The statement, signed by the Secretary-General of the association, Charles Amofah, disclosed that all regional associations had already been directed to furnish the national secretariat in Accra with the dates and venues for their elections.
Michel Platini's appeal against his eight-year ban from all football-related activities will be heard by FIFA's Appeals Committee today.
The suspended UEFA president, 60, was banned by the world governing body's ethics committee in December, along with its president Sepp Blatter.
Both were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) "disloyal payment" to Platini.
Blatter's appeal against his own ban is due to be heard tomorrow.
Adidas Ghana will partner Primeval Media Ghana to organise this year’s Unity Match.
The match aims at galvanising Ghanaians from all walks of life towards a united Ghana ahead of this year’s general election. The CEO of Nutmeg Limited, representatives of Adidas Ghana, Valerie Fontanier-Ghajar, said
“Ghana is the pride of Africa’s democracy and what better way to showcase this united stand towards a noble cause than in a game of football?
Premier League Champons, Ashantigold, yesterday managed to overcome a well-rehearsed game pattern to frustrate them by Algerian side Mouloudia Olympique de Bejaia to win 1-0 in their first leg preliminary round of the CAF Champions League match at the Obuasi Len Clay Stadium.
A combination of ill luck, poor shooting and intermittent dramatising and feigning of injury by the visitors robbed Ashgold of a convincing win to make their second leg encounter in Bejaia a mere formality.
The renovated Dawu stadium will come alive tomorrow when newly-promoted premiership side Dreams FC host Accra Hearts of Oak in a ceremonial game to officially open the facility which had been inactive as a league centre for over a decade.
The encounter will test not only the readiness of the upgraded pitch and entire facility, but also offer both teams opportunity to test their preparedness for the forthcoming 2015/2016 Premier League season which commences on February 20.
The leadership of the Greater Accra Regional Volleyball Association have rolled out a programme of activities for the year with the annual Champion of Champions tourney heralding the year’s
The event, which is expected to bring together over 100 participants from different volleyball clubs in the region, as well as stakeholders and lovers of the sport, will be staged at the Lebanon House near Tudu on Friday, March 11.
The players and technical handlers of AshantiGold have been handed a big boost ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League preliminary round clash with O.M. Bejaia with the club’s management announcing an undisclosed qualification bonus, if they make it to the next round of the competition.
Ashgold’s Kudjoe Fianoo said rather than paying winning bonus per match which may even not guarantee qualifications, the new measure was to urge the players to go for the kill in order to benefit from the amount.
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is expected to name today a vice chairman for the Professional League Board (PLB) in fulfilment of its mandate ahead of the commencement of the Premier League next Sunday.
Optimum Media Prime (OMP), organisers of the programme that unearthed Gideon Baah say he deserves every bit of the success he is enjoying in his career because he has remained determined, deligent and has worked hard.
Sweden-based midfielder, Innocent Teiko Amechitovi, has set his sights on the senior national team, the Black Stars after a breakthrough campaign with IK Virgo in Division Three of the NV Götaland League.
Vision FC's shot-stopper Patrick Antwi, has discarded any thoughts of making a return to the senior national team, Black Stars, insisting his new focus is on how to revive his sparkling club career.
