The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has been forced to turn down a request for a friendly match with Nigeria due to Ghana’s inability to raise a local Black Stars side to face the Super Eagles next week, following the delay of the First Capital Plus Premier League.
Former Black Satellites striker Ebenezer Assifuah, national badminton star, Abraham Ayittey and athlete John O’brien would go head-to-head in a battle to win the prestigious Sports Personality of the Year award at the fourth edition of the Stellar Logistics Western Region Sports Awards tonight in Takoradi.
Almost three decades after he won Ghana’s second world boxing title en route to an illustrious career, Barima Azumah Nelson stood tall among some of the nation’s the most eminent personalities, including former head of state, business moguls and other sports icons, as he was eulogised for a distinguished career in the ring and a humble, selfless life in retirement.
A crunch duel expected to afford football fans a sneak peek into the upcoming season will rock the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday as Hearts of Oak host Medeama SC in a two-legged friendly.
The Ashanti Regional Hockey League returns to action on Saturday after a long break, after it was truncated in its third session following strike action by university lecturers early this year.
Ghana's William Osei Kankam placed fifth at the maiden Olympia Amateur Africa 2014 Bodybuilding Championships in Carnival City, Johannesburg, last Sunday.
One goal in 10 matches for new club Liverpool, and dumped by the Italian national team.
An executive member of the Ghana Hockey Association, Madam Elizabeth Safoah King, has made a passionate appeal to corporate bodies to provide adequate sponsorship for female hockey teams to make the league more competitive and attractive .
One of the game's most controversial characters, Luis Suarez, has been left out of the 23-man long list for the prestigious Ballon d'Or for "disgracing himself on the pitch." The award, which is voted for by coaches and captains of national teams and journalists across the world selected by France Football Magazine, will be awarded in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 12, 2015.
Anxious journalists and observers who turned up to witness the second coming of the former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, and others at the Justice Dzamefe Commission’s sitting yesterday were dribbled after the highly-anticipated public sitting eventually turned into an in-camera session.
Ghana’s midfield powerhouse, Michael Essien, says players of the Black Stars lost trust in the team’s leadership because the lies they were told about the Brazil 2014 World Cup appearance fee were too many and unbearable.
Ghanaian football fans were hit with the shocking news this week that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) had banned Ghana’s Black Starlets from participating in next year’s African Under-17 Championship in Niger after two Starlets players reportedly failed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests to ascertain their true ages.
Ghana’s ace midfielder, Michael Essien, will be presented with a fine opportunity to tell his side of the story when the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s World Cup campaign engages him from his Italian base via Skype at 4.30p.m. tomorrow.
The agent of former Bechem United striker, Augustine Okrah, has explained that injuries, rather than non-performance, has hampered the player’s growth at Swedish side BK Hacken.
An imminent showdown between the Ghana Football Association and King Faisal owner, Alhaji Karim Gruzah, could further delay the start of the First Capital Plus Premier League following the latter’s refusal to accept any out-of-court settlement being suggested by some football officials to end the stalemate.
