Ghana’s elite football league returns this weekend with exciting fixtures across the league centres. Accra Hearts of Oak and Liberty Professionals will clash at the Accra Sports Stadium and the Kumasi Asante Kotoko versus Tema Youth game will be at the Tema Stadium, tomorrow.
Russian kickboxer Viktor Kichigin suffered further embarrassment after losing via TKO in the second round of a Mix Martial Arts (MMA) fight at FNG 67 in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The Kichigin family is full of MMA devotees. Brothers Georgy, Grigoriy, and Viktor are all professional fighters, and their mother Anna Azovskaya is responsible for their training.
Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), Ghana’s leading total beverage business, has presented quantities of its products to the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) towards the successful organisation of this year’s MTN SWAG Awards night scheduled to take place tomorrow, May 27, at the State Banquet Hall, Accra.
Coach Kwasi Appiah is carrying out his plans to build a Black Stars team for the future by leaving out some key players as well as those who played in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to give room for new players.
And so it ends where it all began. Saturday's FA Cup final between Chelsea and Arsenal is a rerun of a fixture that proved so defining this season it should be awarded a blue plaque.
Usually, any given campaign can only be made sense of after myriad factors have been pieced together like a join-the-dots drawing. To attempt to quantify its singular most important moment would be akin to wandering into a rice field looking for the tastiest grain.
Ghanaian international David Accam has etched his name in Chicago Fire's history by becoming the club's first player to score in five consecutive matches.
Accam netted in the ninth minute to give his side a 2-1 win over FC Dallas on Thursday night.
Ampem Darkoa Ladies say they are poised to avenge the loss they suffered at the hands of Fabulous Ladies during the Sanford Women’s FA Cup when the two sides clash on Sunday in the Round of 32 fixtures.
Last season, Fabulous denied Ampem Darkoa, the National Women’s League (NWL) champions, the chance to have a go at a double when they painfully eliminated them at the semi-finals of the FA Cup and again targeting a double this season, the Techiman-based team say the Kumasi ladies can not stand in their way.
Assistant coach Stephen Sarkodie, told the Graphic Sports that they have been preparing for any opponents and playing against Fabulous will make no differe
After more than two decades since one of Ghana’s most gifted sides missed the African Cup final, amid rumours about unhealthy rivalry and bruised egos among the top players, Anthony Yeboah has finally opened up on his rumoured bad relationship with then captain Abedi Pele and alleged split in the star-studded Black Stars team which lost to Cote d’Ivoire in a marathon penalty shootout in the final of the 1992 AFCON.
After their split from their most successful coach so far, Immigration Service will attempt to make headway on Friday as they come up against two tough nuts in Team Baboo and Otumfuo Stars in the ongoing National Table Tennis League at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium.
Ebenezer Anang-Whyte, popularly referred to as Coach Whyte, severed ties with Immigration after a perceived misunderstanding with management of the team.
Former five-division world boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather Jr has confirmed that he will be visiting Ghana between June 15-16.
It was earlier rumoured that the retired American boxer would be embarking on a tour of the African continent but he has now confirmed Ghana as one of his destinations.
“This is one of the best feelings I have ever had in my life.”
Emmanuel Banda’s first words to FIFA.com after Zambia’s night in Jeju are, in truth, not a real surprise. Having moments earlier stepped off the pitch after a thrilling comeback against Iran – going from 2-0 down to 4-2 up in a tubthumping display of attacking verve – there was no doubt an avalanche of adrenaline coursing through his veins.
After narrowly eliminating Niger 6-5 on penalties in the semi-finals, the Black Starlets of Ghana will seek to make history on Sunday as the first country to win the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations for the third time, when they clash with defending champions, Mali, at the Stade De L’Amitié Sino in Libreville.
The Starlets will face probably their toughest task yet in the tournament against Mali in the final to end an 18-year wait for the title after winning it twice in 1995 and 1999.
Premier League side, Tema Youth, have promised to inflict more pain on giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, and extend their winless streak on Sunday when they clash in a fierce Premier League second round opener at the Tema Stadium.
The coach of Tema Youth, Edward Odoom, told the Graphic Sports in an interview that Kotoko will only be lucky to earn a point on Sunday because they are prepared to beat them at home.
The Chief Executive Officer of the McDan Group of Companies, Dr Daniel McKorley, has urged members of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana not to relent in their constructive criticisms of happenings in the sector.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, got the Vodafone Asantehene Gold Cup golf underway with an immaculate tee-off at the Royal Golf course in Kumasi yesterday to officially open this year’s five-day competition.
