GFA vice-president Fred Crentsil and vice-chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee, Kudjoe Fianoo emerged high profile casualties of the GFA National Executive Committee elections after losing their seats in a shock outcome at yesterday’s polls in Accra.

The highly-influential duo missed out in their bid to retain their seats on the Executive Committee as the delegates favoured new faces, with experienced administrators such as Kofi Manu (Blue Blue) and Jones Alhassan Abu also given the boot.

A week-long standoff between the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the senior national women’s team over the payment of winning bonus and other emoluments due them was settled yesterday following the intervention of President John Dramani Mahama and the FA.

The Black Queens have thus agreed to check out of the M-Plaza Hotel this morning, two days after they were given an ultimatum to leave after breakfast last Monday.

Former FIFA official Jack Warner has been banned from football for life by world soccer's governing body.

The former FIFA vice-president quit football four years ago amid a string of corruption allegations and is facing fraud charges as part of a United States investigation.

FIFA's Ethics Committee handed down the ban to Warner, who served as president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) between 1990 and 2011.

Shadrack Opoku of Ashanti Region at the weekend emerged champion at this year’s Ghana Fastest Human held at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.

He overpowered the competition’s big guns such as Appiah Kubi of Ashanti Region and Desmond Aryee of the Greater Accra Region.

Ghana’s Fastest Human (GFH) is an intitative aimed at unearthing sprint talents for the national team and is powered by Surfline and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).

Ghana beat India 5 to 21/2 in their first-ever polo encounter staged at the Accra Polo Club last Saturday in the presence of Ms Samia Nkrumah, Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and K. Jeeva Sagar, Indian High Commissioner to Ghana.

The match, dubbed Nkrumah-Nehru Polo Cup in memory of the two great political leaders of Ghana and India, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Jawaharlal Nehru, respectively was also witnessed by the sector Minister, Dr Mustapha Ahmed.

Accra Polo Club paraded Dan Guy, Dishan Ibrahim, Damian Duncan and captain Jamil Ibrahim, while the Indians featured Naveen Singh Tanwar, Raghav Rao, Ram Singh and Major Arjun Patil.

The 2014/2015 Premier League season has ended, leaving in its trail the usual wranglings, accusations and arguments. And luckily, perhaps, for the first time in several years, there is no dispute about the three teams to be relegated.

This is not to say that all the relegation-bound teams have accepted their fate without any qualms. There are accusations of some teams ganging up against one or two of the relegated ones. Perhaps, as an association, the GFA has to take note.

After sweeping three awards at last Friday night’s MTN FA Cup Awards, including the much coveted Most Valuable Player prize, Medeama midfielder Kwasi Donsu believes he has made a strong case for his inclusion in the senior national team, Black Stars.

He told the Graphic Sports in an interview at theAwards Night last Friday that after bidding his time and showing in the FA Cup what he was capable of doing, his time had arrived to be considered for the Stars.

Gold-winning Black Queens players are fuming with rage, swearing fire and brimstone, never to vacate the M-Plaza Hotel in Accra until their $11,000 each in oustanding bonuses had been paid.

The Queens have flatly turned down government’s $2,000 bonus offer for winning gold at the All Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo since they moved in last Sunday, insisting that they be paid $23,00 each, including their outstanding bonuses.

Special Olympics Ghana has presented certificates of honour to the four athletes who won four silver medals for Ghana during the Special Olympics World Games held in Los Angeles between July 23 and August 3, this year.

The acting board chairman of Special Olympics Ghana, Nana Wereko-Ampim Opoku, who presented the certificates during the Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s Day celebration in Accra, assured of honouring them with cash prizes to motivate them to nurture their potentials in sports and become world class athletes.

The elections of new members to constitute the next Executive Committee (EXCO) of the Ghana Football Association evokes a sense of de ja vu as the old script appears certain to be re-written once again.

With the exit of Randy Abbey, who once contested and won via Accra Hearts of Oak, Kessben FC and Tudu Mighty Jets tickets, as well as Fred Pappoe (Accra Great Olympics), the coast has been cleared for some new faces to enter the fray through the 11 slots provided by the Premier League bracket.

Teye Lartey Gberbie last Saturday won the flagship men’s Group A category of the Dean of Diplomatic Corps invitational golf tournament held at the Celebrity Golf Club in Accra.

Returning a score of 38 points, 42-year-old Gberbie pipped Majid Joeher - who amassed 36 points, in second and Joe Ampofo who tied Joeher's score but lost out on countback.

For his outstanding display Gberbie was presented with a crystal trophy as well as a Business Class South African Airways return ticket to Johannesburg.

The one-day 18-hole stableford competition was held in honour of the Zimbabwean High Commissioner to Ghana, Mrs Pavelyn Tendai Musaka, who is also the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Ghana.

Ghanaian football legends would always like to leave footprints and always be remembered in the sports industry where they have curved an enviable niche for themselves.

One of them is Tony Yeboah affectionately referred to as YEGOALA, a name he won for himself because he scored spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions, often celebrated by wagging his index finger towards the crowd.

He is considered one of the most prominent and prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history and gained a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions, often celebrated by wagging his index finger towards the crowd.

A kumasi-based businessman, Ernest Antwi (Opaana), gave tennis fans something to smile about when he delivered a number of aces to dismiss Dr Cudjoe Diaba to win the maiden Donyma Tennis competition in Kumasi.

Opaana, as the winner is affectionately called, proved that his recent stellar performances were no fluke as he literally pummelled the medical doctor from start to finish.

The men’s final, which was supposed to have been played last Saturday, was rained off and rescheduled.

At the time the rains interrupted the exciting match, Opaana was leading 3-1 and everything pointed to an annihilation of his opponent.

Indeed, the Adum phone dealer had to cancel his US trip just to grab the silverware to mark his fourth year as a member of the 4 Garrison Tennis Club, organisers of the competition.

After taking a 4-0 unassailable lead, Dr Diaba recovered with some ground strokes but it was for a brief moment as a couple of double faults and loss of

MTN FA Cup champions, Medeama SC, look set to sweep the 5th FA Cup Awards at the Banquet Hall of the State House tonight.

Richard Amponsah and Paulina Acheampong won the day when RIKAIR, on-site PSA Oxygen generating systems, sponsored a one-day golf open at the Damang Golf Club.

Amponsah won the men's Group A trophy with 76 points, followed by William Tawiah in second place with 78 points and Paul Abu with 80 points in third.

In the men's Group B, Enoch Adjei came first with 39 points; Francis Kwateng came second with 35 points, beating David Brown on count back.