A member of the Black Stars Management Committee and chairman of the GFA Legal Committee, Mr Ernest Thompson, has tasked the local soccer governing body to put Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, in charge of the CHAN team to compel him to stay in the country and scout for local talents.

He recalled how a similar arrangement by the GFA enabled the then Stars’ Serbian coach, Milovan Rajevac, to steer the home-based national team to the final of the maiden African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Cote d’Ivoire in 2009 and urged the FA to repeat same now to help improve the lot of Maxwell Konadu’s team which failed to qualify for the biennial tournament for the first time last Friday.

Andre Dede Ayew has made the cut in the 10 players shortlisted for this year’s African Best Player Award by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) who released the list last Monday.

Ayew, voted the top scorer at this year’s African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and also enjoying a good run with Swansea in his debut season in the English Premier League (EPL), is set to battle reigning African Best Player, Yaya Toure of Cote d’Ivoire, for the coveted award.

This is the keynote address delivered by Osagyefo Oseadeayo Agyeman-Badu II, Paramount Chief of the Dormaa Traditional Area, who was the Guest of Honour at the 2014/15 GFA/PLB Awards at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra on Friday, October 30, 2015.

Honourable Chairman, Honourable Minister for Youth and Sports, the GFA President, Members of the Executive Council of the FA, the PLB, First Capital Plus Bank, Media, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.               

Let me thank the organisers of tonight’s programme which is the 10th GFA/PLB Awards Night for inviting me to this all important programme. The GFA/PLB Awards Night as I gather seeks to honour some distinguished personalities and corporate institutions who have contributed immensely to the success of the football season.

The GFA Awards Night began in 2005 but before then there had been awards such as Toyota Most Exciting Player of the Season, which started in the mid-1980s; ABC/FA Awards organised

The Premier League Board (PLB) of the Ghana Football Association has expressed its profound gratitude to all who graced the 2014/15 PLB Awards Night ceremony at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra last Friday.

Ghana’s Under-20 female soccer team, the Black Princesses, will host their Ethiopian counterparts in the return leg of their 2016 FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC) at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi on Sunday.

Jose Mourinho is to be the subject of individual legal action from former Chelsea team doctor, Eva Carneiro, the Press Association reports.

It means the Chelsea boss will have to appear at an employment tribunal unless there is an out of court settlement.

Carneiro was dropped from first-team duties after Mourinho said she was "naive" for treating Eden Hazard during a draw with Swansea.

Her lawyers are already suing the club for constructive dismissal.

Defending champions Nigeria and Mali last Sunday qualified for the semi-final of the FIFA Male Under-17 World Championship after decisive wins in their respective quarter-final matches.

Roger Federer defeated long-time rival Rafael Nadal 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 on Sunday to win his seventh title at the Swiss Indoors as he played the home final for a record tenth consecutive year.

Federer and Nadal last met in an Australian Open semifinal nearly two years ago and played their last final in Rome in 2013, both of which Nadal won.

Frustrated Christian Atsu is back to his mother club, Chelsea, ostensibly for treatment after picking a stress fracture while on international duty for Ghana last September.

Atsu, whose game-time has been limited to two League Cup appearances since he joined Bournemouth on a season-long loan from Chelsea, has been back at Stamford for almost a month and could spend four more weeks as he struggles to regain his form.

Bournemouth coach, Eddie Hower, questioned on why he was not using the Ghanaian winger, said.

New Zealand held off a fierce Australian comeback to win a thrilling World Cup final and become the first team to retain their title.

It was a call too close to call in the face off between Jose Mourinho the ‘Special One’ and Jurgen Klopp the ‘Normal One’. In the end, the verdict stunned everyone and has left Mourinho desperately fighting to keep his job at Chelsea.

Klopp got his first Premier League win as Liverpool boss with an excellent 3-1 victory at Chelsea.

Scores of lucky football fans subscribers of Glo Mobile will have the opportunity to witness the prestigious Glo-CAF Awards as Glo launches the “Find Your Place among the stars” promo ahead of the 2015 edition of the awards slated for the International Conference Centre in Abuja on January 7.

This year’s H.P. Nyemitei-SWAG Cup will come off on Sunday, November 29 at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, following an agreement by SIC Insurance to sponsor the prestigious competition which was last played in 2009.

Guinea and Angola caused the biggest shocks of the weekend so far as they qualified for the finals of the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.

Guinea qualified for the tournament for locally based players for the first time after three failed attempts by eliminating Senegal.

Louis van Gaal wants Manchester United to use tomorrow's home Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow as a turning point for their season.

United secured a 1-1 draw in Russia thanks to Anthony Martial's header in their most recent European outing on October 21 but have since recorded three 0-0 draws in a row, results which have seen them lose ground to Manchester City and Arsenal at the top of the Premier League table and exit the League Cup on penalties to Middlesbrough.