A former teacher, John Yaw Frimpong Manso, a citizen of Agogo in Asante Akim,has invented an indoor soccer game designed to generate the interest of the youth in the game of football, educate and entertain them to appreciate the rules of the game and its technicalities.
This is the concluding part of the one-on-one interview the Youth and Sports Minister, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, had with Graphic Sports’ Beatrice Laryea. The first part of which appeared last Friday.
A board member of Accra Hearts of Oak, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has challenged the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to begin rethinking of a strategy that would ensure safety of players on the road.
Team Ghana's bid to win medals at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games has already begun facing challenges after its 23-member contingent started travelling in batches for the competition which begins tomorrow in Nassau, Bahamas.
Ghanaian striker Raphael Dwamena appears poised to continue his rich vein of goal scoring when the Swiss Super League begins after bagging an impressive hat trick for FC Zurich in a 6-1 demolition of Turkish Club Gotzepe in a pre-season friendly on Sunday.
Dwamena, 21, started his three-goal spree in the 17th minute, scoring the second goal after his teammate Michael Frey had given FC Zurich the lead.
Eight people have died and at least 49 are injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal.
It happened at Demba Diop stadium in the capital, Dakar, at the end of the League Cup final between Stade de Mbour and Union Sportive Ouakam.
Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will move to the top of the Sapholda Hockey League men's standings with victory against Legon Knights today at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.
The GRA lads, who have 17 points from seven matches, will move above leaders Trustees (who have a point more and game in hand) if they defeat the whipping boys who do not have a point to their name yet.
In the same division, Ghana Police will engage Exchequers in a mid-table encounter, while Reformers lock horns with Ark Men.
Premier League leaders, WAFA, will attempt to break a long-standing jinx when they visit the Golden City Park tomorrow to challenge Berekum Chelsea in a Ghana Premier League Week 23 top liner.
WAFA face a tough assignment in a match which could define their season against a wounded Chelsea side who are keen on returning to winning ways after losing 0-2 to Hearts of Oak in midweek.
The statistics favour Chelsea, who have won all their encounters at home against WAFA, with their last two outings ending 1-0 and 2-0 victories for the homesters.
Officials of MTN Ghana have expressed sadness over the accident involving players and officials of Asante Kotoko who were returning to Kumasi after a football match at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra.
The assistant coach of WAFA, Akakpo Patron, says the Premier League leaders are ready to fight to keep their title hopes alive when they travel to the Golden City Park on Sunday to engage Berekum Chelsea.
Patron envisaged a tough encounter but said WAFA were keen on ending a poor record at Berekum with a resounding victory over their opponents.
The Minister for Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah, has revealed that Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, has been paid $150,000 as signing-on fee in the interim, out of the total $250,000.
He pointed out that Coach Appiah had a contractual agreement with Al Khartoum SC, the Sudanese club he left midstream and that part of his signing-on fee would be used to offset the debt he owed the club.
Sports broadcast journalist Christopher Opoku will be buried at his hometown, Domiabra in the Ashanti Region at tomorrow, after the burial service in the Poolside of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
The final funeral rites and family gathering will continue at the Poolside, immediately after the burial.
The Premier League Board (PLB), organisers of the Ghana Premier League, has postponed the Match Day 23 fixture between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak, which was scheduled for Sunday, July 16, at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.
The decision, according to the organisers, followed the tragic accident involving the Asante Kotoko team last Wednesday on their way to Kumasi after their midweek encounter against Inter Allies in Accra.
His appointment to the post of Minister of Youth and Sports last February by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did not come as a surprise to many sports connoisseurs, especially, considering the wealth of knowledge and experience he had acquired after serving on the Parliamentary Select Committee for Sports for several years.
He has been a member of Ghana’s Parliament for the Atwima Mponua Constituency in the Ashanti Region since 2005 and will keep serving his people for as long as they keep giving him their mandate.
The president of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), Ben Nunoo Mensah, has charged the 12 athletes who will represent the nation at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Bahamas to repay the nation's investment in their careers by winning laurels for the country.
