The chairman of the Premier League Board (PLB), Mr Welbeck Abra-Appiah, has expressed gratitude to the stakeholders of Ghana football for their diverse unflinching support which contributed to the success of this year’s First Capital Plus Premier League.
Accra Great Olympics yesterday bid another farewell to elite football despite coming from behind to beat Ashgold 2-1 at the Accra Sports stadium.
The result did not mean so much to Ashgold as they were already champions and were indeed, given a guard of honour by Olympics ahead of the kick-off.
Olympics supporters were seen wailing. They had only spent just a season in the Premier League but on the other side were Ashgold fans dancing as they celebrated their fourth league triumph after 19 years.
Congo Brazzaville, the third seeds whose players have spent one year preparing in China, suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Ghana’s Male Team, the Black Loopers.
Derek Abrefa Ghana’s top seed started off well in the opening match of the contest by beating Suraju Saka, crowned African champion in 2008 in Kinshasa (11-7, 12-10, 4-11, 11-7) Emmanuel Commey in the vital concluding fifth match of the engagement also beat Suraju Saka (11-8, 11-6, 4-11, 11-6). However Hu Bin remained unbeaten for Congo Brazzaville, he accounted for Emmanuel Commey (11-4, 11-4, 11-6) and Derek Abrefa (11-7, 11-5, 11-7) but that was to be the sum total of success for the host nation outfit.
Winner earlier in the year on the GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour in Lagos, Omar Assar proved the backbone of success for Egypt, the top seeds, as they booked their place in the final of the Men’s Team event at the 11th African Games in Congo Brazzaville on the evening of Saturday 12th September.
Impressively, the 24 year old remained unbeaten as the defending champions overcame the host nation’s third seeded combination of Hu Bin, Saheed Idowu and Wang Jianan by three matches to one.
The success came after the second seeded Nigerian trio of Seun Ajetunmobi, Quadri Aruna and Segun Toriola had recorded a three-nil win in opposition to Ghana’s sixth seeded combination of Derek Abrefa, Emmanuel Commey and Felix Lartey.
Twiga Stars of Tanzania coach, Rogasian Kaijage has admitted that his team were inferior to Nigeria’s Super Falcons at the ongoing All Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo.
The East Africans suffered a 0-3 loss to the reigning African champions in the group’s match day 2 clash at the Alphonse Massamba Debat Stadium in Brazzaville.
Heavyweight boxer, David Bawah Akankolim, kept Ghana’s medal hopes at the All Africa Games alive when he knocked out Comeroun’s Kenfack Claude in the first round to win the 91kg contest last Wednesday.
He now awaits his opponent in the quarter finals after compatriots, Abdul Wahid Omar and Musa Rahman Lawson, disappointed in their respective fights to be booted out of the competition.
The GFA Disciplinary Committee has upheld Accra Hearts of Oak’s protest against Asante Kotoko in respect of the eligibility of Obed Owusu in their Match day 25 Premier League game played on August 2, 2015.
grA member of the Justice Dzamefe Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s 2014 World Cup fiasco, Moses Foh-Amoaning, has taken the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ghana Football Association to task, describing the payment of winning bonus in cash to the Black Stars in far away Rwanda last Saturday as unfortunate and a breach of government’s directives.
In a bid to produce thrilling hockey games, the Greater Accra Hockey Association (GAHA) has reviewed the format of its BEIGE Capital Knock-Out tournament which pushes off on Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.
The new format announced last Wednesday in Accra will see the respective winners and runners-up of the men's, women's and youth categories of the just ended Greater Accra Hockey League season seeded in two groups of three teams in their various divisions.
The last qualifier of the ongoing “Red Bull King of the Rock” ended last Wednesday at the Accra Polytechnic basketball courts with Abdul Mutalib beating off competition from Romeo Wilfred to emerge victorious.
With his feat, Mutalib will lead a four-member squad to represent Accra at the national finals which takes off later today at the Lebanon House in Accra.
One of the country’s most successful indigenous business conglomerates, Group Nduom, has pledged to partner the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) to help develop and promote sports in the country.
As a first step towards a promising relationship, Group Nduom has indicated its readiness to support SWAG towards the organisation of the 40th MTN SWAG Awards which will take place at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra on Saturday, October 3.
Novak Djokovic brushed off the challenge of Spain's Feliciano Lopez to reach his ninth consecutive US Open semi-final. Djokovic has only lifted the title once at Flushing Meadows in that time but the top seed remains on course to improve his tally after beating Lopez 6-1 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7/2).
Coach of the Black Queens, Yusif Basigi, insists today's game against South Africa at the Stade De Unity Stadium in the Concorde Sports Complex in Kintele, Brazzaville.
According to him, the team is prepared and ready for Bayana Bayana after watching them draw 1-1 against Cameroun last Monday.
Ghana’s Olympic side, the Black Meteors appeared to be heading home when they stumbled before their Nigerian counterparts who handed them a 2-0 defeat yesterday in their Group B encounter at the ongoing All Africa Games played at the Stade de Olympique de Unity Stadium in Kintele, Brazzaville.
A brilliant finish by striker Junior Ajayi Oluwafemi in the 54th minute and a late flick on by midfielder Kingsley Sokari in the 86th minute were all the Nigerians needed to progress to the semi-finals.
This year’s Inter-Bases Sports competition is underway at the Air Force Base in Takoradi where participating teams (Bases) are competing in football, basketball, cross-country race, table tennis, badminton and tug of war.
The competition, which started last Monday and ends tomorrow, is being held under the auspices of Air Vice Marshal Samson-Oje, Chief of Air Staff.
