Kwasi Appiah made a five-star start to his competitive tenure as Black Stars coach guiding the senior national team to a 5-0 win over Ethiopia in their 2019 AFCON Group F opener at the Baba Yara Stadium.
The Stars dominated the one-sided tie from Start to finish with debutants striker Raphael Dwamena, winger Thomas Agyepong and fullback Lumor Agbenyenu impressing.
The coach of the senior national team, James Kwasi Appiah has handed out three debuts for the Black Stars 2019 AFCON qualifier against Ethiopia at the Baba Yara Stadium.
Appiah has handed starts to the trio of Lumor Agbenyenu, Thomas Agyepong and Raphael Dwamena for the first competitive match of his second stint as Black Stars coach this afternoon.
England won their biggest international title since 1966 by beating Venezuela 1-0 in the Under-20 World Cup final.
It was England's first appearance in the final of a global tournament since their World Cup victory 51 years ago.
Nana Yaa Boatemaa Bonsu, the sister of Swedish-based Ghanaian midfielder Kwame Bonsu, who has been sentenced to two years in prison for raping and beating his wife says her brother has been framed.
Boatemaa Bonsu, the elder sister of 22-year-old Kwame Bonsu told footballmadeinghana.com that her brother's bitter Swedish ex-wife is out for revenge after he caught her flirting around with other men and decided to end their marriage.
Barcelona fans in Saudi Arabia could be punished with up to 15 years in prison for wearing their team's colours.
Barca shirts sporting the Qatar Airways sponsorship logo are said to have been outlawed amid tensions in the Gulf region over alleged links between extremist groups and Qatar.
Black Stars coach Kwasi Appiah begins his first major test of his second stint with the team tomorrow when they play the Walias of Ethiopia at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi in a group qualifier for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
Appiah aims to pick one of the slots for the 2019 AFCON in Cameroun and make his comeback successful in order to make a strong case for local coaches.
It seemed improbable from the start that Ghana’s national baseball team would want to travel from west Africa to Edmonton for an exhibition game against the Prospects. Eleven-thousand kilometres for a friendly?
It comes as less of a surprise to hear that the Rising Stars of Ghana will not be arriving in Edmonton on Thursday or playing the Prospects at Re/Max Field on Monday, after all. A new federal government elected in December has apparently wrapped the visa acquisition process in thick red tape, and the team simply ran out of time to finalize its travel plans.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has asked the Black Stars not to be influenced by financial considerations but be prepared to sacrifice a little to bring back the excitement that characterised the team sometime past.
He said it was a privilege to be selected out of over 24 million people to play for the national team and urged them to kill themselves to pick the three maximum points in the AFCON Cameroun 2019 qualifier against the Walias of Ethiopia at the Baba Yara Stadium tomorrow.
Premier League leaders, WAFA, extended their lead after holding Liberty Professionals to a goalless draw at the Carl Reindolf Park at Dansoman in Accra yesterday.
Liberty, who needed a win badly to keep their survival hopes alive, dominated the game in both halves and pressed the visitors in the first half for the opener.
A brace each from defender Vincent Atinga and striker Kwame Kizito saw Hearts of Oak whitewash a listless Bolga AllStars 4-0 in their 18th week Ghana Premier League fixture at the Accra Stadium yesterday.
The massive loss put AllStars neck deep into relegation with just 11 points, while Hearts increased their tally to 30 points and also atoned for the 5-0 drubbing at the hands of WAFA at Sogakope last Sunday.
Former captains of the Black Stars, Abedi Ayew "Pele" and Stephen Appiah will be celebrated on June 13 at the second edition Calcio Trade Ball, an event which honours Ghanaian footballers who have played in Italy.
A statement issued by the Embassy of Italy said the event will gather the sport, business, media and diplomatic communities at the residence of the Ambassador of Italy, Mr Giovanni Favilli in Accra.
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced Ghanaian football player in Sweden’s second division to two years in prison for raping and beating his wife.
After serving his sentence, 22-year-old Kwame Bonsu, who played for the Gefle IF club, will be expelled from the Scandinavian country where he has lived in since 2013, the Gavle District Court said.
A paralympic athlete, Mr Maclean Atsu Dzidzienyo has dedicated two medals to management and staff of CAL bank at a ceremony in Accra. The gesture was to show appreciation to the bank for supporting him to participate in the IPC Desert Challenge Games in Arizona, USA this year.
According to Mr Dzidzienyo, he managed to compete in three of the track events - the 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 meters men’s T53 category and qualified to compete in the world Paralympic championship in London.
The president of the Ghana Shooting Sports Federation (GSSF), Cillian Walsh, has been elected to serve on the Board of the Africa Shooting Sports Federation (ASSF) at a General Meeting in Cairo, Egypt, last month.
Walsh's inclusion in the ASSF internal body reflects his strong organisational abilities and understanding of sports administration despite his disqualification from the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) elections held recently on nationality grounds.
Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, has said the introduction of new players into the team was part of his succession plan for the Stars for the next 10 years.
The plan, structured into short, medium to long term has a space for the silver-winning Africa Under-17 national team, the Black Starlets, who would be the lynchpin around which the long term plan would be built.
