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.

Work on the artificial turf for Accra Academy is expected to commence next week.

Even before he is confirmed by Parliament’s Appointment Committee as the new Minister of Youth and Sports, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, seems to have sent a clear message that he intends to crack the whip in order to get things done, particularly the vexed issue of the long stay of Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, outside the country under the guise of monitoring players in Europe.

Mr Vanderpuye told Star FM in an interview last Wednesday that when confirmed, he would ensure that Grant spent a lot of time in Ghana to work with local coaches and monitor players rather than his preferred mode of operating in Europe at huge cost to the state. 

“It is my conviction that our local coaches have the ability to excel and do better than the foreign coaches. We have a foreign coach now. I don’t have a problem with Avram Grant.

“I think he is a wonderf

After guiding Medeama SC to win the 2015 MTN FA Cup and the FA Super Cup last Sunday, Tom Marcus Christian Strand has set an audacious target to win the 2015/2016 Premier League title, as well as make a remarkable impact in Africa as his team gears up for the CAF Confederation Cup.

Premier League champions, Ashanti Gold, are promising a fitting Valentine’s Day present for their supporters and the people of Obuasi with a sweet home win against Algerian side, Mouloudia Olympique de Bejaia, in the first leg preliminary round of the CAF Champions League at the Len Clay Stadium.

The top four semi- finalists in the 2015/16 Ghana Rugby Club Championship (GRCC) will tomorrow engage each other at the Accra Sports Stadium for to vie for a slot in the final.

The president of the Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF), Frederick Lartey Otu, has debunked as outright falsehood, accusations of bias levelled against his administration in the selection of athletes to compete at the ongoing Olympics qualifiers in Agadir, Morocco.

He said far from being the case on the ground, the selection of athletes for the Morocco Olympics qualifiers was handled by the national technical committee headed by the technical director, Mr. Joseph Brako and whose competence is not in doubt.

The Premier League Board (PLB) and the Referees Committee of the Ghana Football Association have held fruitful discussions ahead of the commencement of the Premier League next weekend.