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Newly invited Ghana striker, Kwesi Appiah

Kwesi Appiah delighted about call-up

Newly invited Ghana striker, Kwesi Appiah, is delighted about his invitation to join the Black Stars for their training camp in Spain ahead of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

Kwesi Nyantakyi, president of the Ghana Football Association

AFCON 2015: No money for Stars camping?

Ghana’s Black Stars will embark on their training tour of Spain on Sunday without funds from the Consolidated Fund as has been the norm.

Steven Gerald

Steven Gerrard to leave Liverpool at end of season

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard will confirm on Friday that he is ending a 25-year association with his boyhood club.

Asamoah Gyan Stars captain

Stars have defensive problems — Asamoah Gyan

Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, concedes the team has defensive issues  which must be resolved before the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea.

Coach Sillas Tetteh

Sellas relishes another World Cup

Coach Sellas Tetteh, of the Black Satellites  is relishing another qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand as they prepare for the 19th edition of the African Youth Championship (AYC) which begins in March next year.

Didier Drogba

Title will go down to the wire — Drogba

Didier Drogba has called on Chelsea to start a new season in the New Year while he predicts that the title race will go down to the wire.

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Bombs at World Cup stadium

The 2018 World Cup has seen some explosive action even before it would start as builders working on a new stadium in the South West Russian city of Volgograd have so far discovered 11 unexploded World War II (WW2) bombs.

 Taekwondo participants during the Korea Cup

Taekwondo: Looking ahead with hope

This year’s “Korea Cup” Taekwondo Championship which is the flagship Taekwondo competition in Ghana climaxed the activities of the Ghana Taekwondo Federation.

Owusu Bempah — Satellites

Satellites still on the block

The Black Satellites, which is under the able management of Coach Sellas Tetteh,  have named a 24- man squad for the Africa Youth Championship in Senegal next year.

Fernando Torres

Chelsea gave me what I was looking for — Fernando Torres

Spain forward, Fernando Torres, has agreed to return to Atletico Madrid on loan from AC Milan until the end of the 2015-16 season, seven-and-a-half years after leaving his boyhood club.

 GFA president — Kwesi Nyantakyi

GFA goes to congress today

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) will converge on the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence at Prampram today for its much-awaited general congress.

• Kwesi Nyantakyi — GFA boss

Stars tale of humiliation, Commission of Inquiry

The Black Stars of Ghana started 2014 on a high and ended on a low. It was the year the Stars' over-bloated egos also landed them in global humiliation at the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup over delayed appearance fees.

Worse still, the unfortunate crisis pushed the government of Ghana to, for the first time, fly over $3million to Brazil in a chartered flight Hollywood style before the Stars could honour their last group game against Portugal in the capital Brasilia.

That summarised Ghana's third World Cup campaign which saw Kwasi Appiah emerging as the first Ghanaian coach to lead the Stars to the Mundial, yet bowing out in the first round with a single point in three games.

One thing led to another and dissatisfied Ghanaians called for a probe into the Stars' ignominious campaign which was in sharp contrast with the two previous competitions, and President John Mahama did not hesitate to form a three-man Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate the mat

Asiedu Attobrah — One of the shining lights of the CHAN 2014

CHAN 2014: Ghana failed to clinch ultimate again

Ghana’s pedigree as a superior powerhouse in continental football was taken to a different height as their representatives at the 2014 Championship of African Nations Cup (CHAN) in South Africa exhibited a spirited performance yet failed to clinch the trophy.

 Alexandre Song

Song can’t play for Cameroun — Tanko

Cameroun's assistant coach, Ibrahim Tanko, has backed his boss, Volker Finke, in the decision to leave out  West Ham United loanee, Alexandre Song, out of his provisional 24-man squad for the  2015 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Equatorial Guinea next month.

Ayittey Powers (left) and Anicet Amossou (right)

Powers’ fight generates interest

Over 300 tickets was sold out in the first week towards Saturday’s thriller between Ghana’s Ayittey Powers and Beninois Anicet Amoussou at the Unity Park at Tantra Hills, Achimota, in Accra.

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