Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s preparation for the next football season has been given a big boost with news that their Ivorian star, Ahmed Toure is set to join Coach David Duncan’s squad for preseason training.
Toure, who was Kotoko’s top scorer last season with 11 goals, was loaned to Lebanese side Nejmeh FC a few months ago, but the deal fell through.
Accra Hearts of Oak have expressed dissatisfaction with the delay in announcing the decision of their review case against Kumasi Asante Kotoko, urging the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to expedite action on the case in order to facilitate a prompt start of the Premier League season.
The Phobians initially saw their protest against Kotoko over of the eligibility of Kotoko’s Obed Owusu in their 25th week fixture upheld by the GFA’s Disciplinary Committee, which also awarded them three points.
However, the Porcupine Warriors were successful in their appeal against that ruling and saw all their docked points restored, which led the Phobians to head back to the Appeals Committee on October 23 for a review of the decision which they described as a “miscarriage of justice and wrongful interpretation of GFA, CAF, and FIFA regulations”.
A board member of Accra Hearts of Oak, Emmanuel Martey Commodore-Mensah, has resigned from the board with immediate effect, fuelling speculations that some cracks are beginning to emerge in the boardroom of the Phobians.
Mr Commodore-Mensah, one time board chairman of the club, tendered in his resignation letter weeks before the club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Accra last week. In the said letter he stated his decision to relinquish his membership of the board.
The decision came at a time when another board member, Afenu Apiigii, a representative of Africa Strategic Securities, the majority shareholders in the club, had earlier resigned from the board. Mr Apiigi has since been replaced by Thomas Esso, at the last AGM.
Mr Commodore-Mensah’s resignation, it had been rumoured, was as a result ofdeep-seated disagreement in the Hearts boardroom over the direction of the club.
Burial and final funeral rites for Ghana’s football legend, Charles Kumi Gyamfi (C.K. Gyamfi) who died on September 2, this year will be held between Friday, December 18 and Sunday December 20 , 2015.
Abusuapanin Kwasi Aniagyei Kumi , Larteh Asokyede family head, who announced the funeral arrangements, said the late C.K. Gyamfi would be laid in state at the forecourt of the State House in Accra at 7a.m. on Friday, December 18 followed by memorial service at the same place.
Champion club, AshantiGold, yesterday signed a one-year sponsorship deal with Spain-based J.Garcia Carrion, producers of Don Simon Fruit juice.
It’s the second sponsorship deal to be secured by the Miners from two Spanish companies within a month.
The contract was facilitated by Permafix Industries Limited (leading tile adhesive manufactures and the club’s headline sponsors) through the initiative of Mr Marco Polo, Financial Director of Permafix Industries Limited.
Newly signed Kumasi Asante Kotoko goalie, Ernest Sowah, insists the stiff competition he faces at the stables of the Porcupine Warriors will motivate him to be a better shot-stopper and ensure his quick return to the senior national team, the Black Stars.
Sowah, who completed a three-year deal in October to join the Porcupine Warriors after cancelling his contract with Congolese side CS Don Bosco, conceded in an interview with the Graphic Sports that he faces a scramble for the first-choice with competition from Eric Ofori Antwi, Felix Annan and Isaac Amoako (injured) at his new club.
Dismissed Hearts of Oak midfielder, Emmanuel Hayford and the club have traded counter accusations over allegation of commitment and indiscipline leading to the dismissal from the club.
While Hearts News report suggested the club had to dispense with the services of Emmanuel Hayford on grounds of indiscipline and truancy, the player told Happy FM in an interview that those allegations were unfounded based on how he sacrificed for the club.
Miswa Chemicals based in Northampton in the United Kingdom, producers of Polygard products, including Kilit Insecticide, has through its local distributors, the Evergreen Chemicals Limited, fenced the tennis courts of the 4 Garrison Tennis Club in Kumasi, a project that cost the company GH¢23,000.
The Managing Director of the Evergreen Chemicals Limited, Mr John Dele and his wife, Abigail Dele, handed over the facility to the General Officer Commanding the Central Command, Brig. Gen Joseph Adu Boampong, a patron of the club.
They also promised to support the club with series of tournament and other pressing needs to develop tennis in the Ashanti Region.
Mr Dele told the Graphic Sports it was time the National Sports Authority gave other disciplines the right boost to develop and grow.
He said his desire to sponsor tennis was his contribution towards helping budding talents in the sport and help it to grow.
The club, in showing appreciation to
Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, is set for a legal showdown with tough-talking legal practitioner, Dr Maurice Ampaw, over his media pronouncements regarding the alleged rape and unnatural carnal knowledge of Ampaw's client, Sarah Kwablah.
According to Mr Agyebeng, Gyan has been cleared of all of Sarah's allegations by the Attorney General's (AG) department and has directed his legal team to take action against anyone who defames him in respect of the issue.
Gyan's lawyers, Cromwell Grey LLP, represented by the managing partner, Agyebeng, who spoke at a press conference in Accra yesterday at which Gyan was absent, said the Attorney General's department had "concluded that the rape and unnatural carnal knowledge allegations made by Sarah Kwablah against Asamoah Gyan are totally baseless and that the docket should be closed".
A former player of the Black Stars, James Kuuku Dadzie, has passionately appealed to the various committees of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to be swift and strict in applying the statutes of the association in matters of dispute without prejudice.
He said if the rules governing the game were swept under the carpet or the rules bent in the interest of certain parties, the country’s football would continue to suffer.
Emos Korblah has won this year’s Goldfield's Professional Golfers Association (PGA) of Ghana golf championship played at the Damang Golf Course in the Western Region.
He prevented Nigeria’s Sunday Odegha from winning the competition after dominated the for the first three days.
Korblah overtook Odegha on the final day with a total score of 286 and took home a cash prize of GH¢25,000, while Odegha followed with a score of 288.
Plans are far advanced to introduce swimming lessons into the Ghanaian School curricular aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the swimming sport.
Mr John Mensah Anang, a staff at the Curriculum Research and Development Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES) said the GES was working with Felix Fitness Foundation (FFF), a swimming and aqua survival training organisation, to develop the swimming lessons.
At a swimming championship organised by the FFF for children between the ages of one and 17 years, at the A& C Mall in Accra, Mr Anang explained that the world was experiencing natural disasters such as earthquake and flooding as well as climate change which had affected the lives of the vulnerable, including children.
Accra Hearts of Oak have moved their training to the Legon Park after using the grassless Police Depot Park at Tesano in Accra as their base for nearly six weeks.
Hearts’ management had been under intense pressure since their coach, Kenichi Yatsuhashi moved the team to the Police Depot Park which has rough surface.
Ashanti Gold has set a Money Zone target for their head coach, Bashir Hayford, aka Coach Bash, in their Africa Champions League campaign next year.
Kudjoe Fianoo, CEO of the club, noted that for sometime now no Ghanaian club had made it to the Group stage and was, therefore, imperative for them to make that the target of the coach.
The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) has expressed its deep appreciation to the management of SIC Insurance Company and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and all who played various roles in ensuring a successful SIC-Nyemitei SWAG Cup match between
AshantiGold and Kumasi Asante Kotoko at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi last week.
Kotoko defeated Ashgold 1-0 to win the prestigious trophy for a record 14th time.
