Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, was last Tuesday night honoured with the Order of the Star, the topmost award of the 2017 Calcio Trade Ball (CTB), an event which celebrates the footballing ties between Ghana and Italy.

The second edition of the CTB which was held at the residence of the Italian Ambassador, Giovanni Favilli, and organisers, Arthur Legacy Sports, presented Gyan with a citation praising his immense contribution to the senior national football team as well as other sectors of the country.

Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, has commended the debutants he paraded in last Sunday’s AFCON qualifier against Ethiopia for vindicating him and proving that, given the chance, they can also do something for the nation.

Coach Appiah took a risk by starting Lumor Agbenyenu, Thomas Agyepong and Raphael Dwamena, in addition to putting home-based goalie Richard Ofori in post and featuring also fairly new Ebenezer Ofori for the all-important 2019 Group F Africa Nations Cup opener which also marked his return to the Stars as the head coach.

Gloria Lamptey, the estranged wife of former national youth star, Nii Odartey Lamptey was unsuccessful in her bid to get a 50 per cent stake of his assets after the Accra High Court ruled against her in a divorce trial.

According to starsports.com.gh, the court presided over by Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe Agbevey on Wednesday afternoon ruled that Gloria was adulterous and did not merit a 50-50 split of Odartey's entire assets after having three children out of wedlock.

Veteran coach J.E. Sarpong has commended coach Kwasi Appiah and the Black Stars for their splendid performance against Ethiopia at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium last Sunday. However, he says Appiah must widen his net by scouting for more players in the domestic leagues and abroad to provide him with a lot of options, as well as create competition for positions among the playing body.

He noted that despite the Stars’ impressive 5-0 win against Ethiopia, it was too early to describe the team as a formidable side ready to win major trophies for Ghana.

Sometimes luck is not all we need. For a forward, you simply get the ball across the line, by all means.

If Dominic Adiyiah gets this one chance over the line, at just 20 years he will have already eclipsed his accomplishments from a year ago. On this day, however, the 2nd of July 2010, his header two minutes from time is goal-bound, yet within Luis Suarez’s reach; Suarez’s hand to be precise.

Young Ghanaian striker, Sani Dey, is making the headlines in the lower leagues of Canadian football with his goal-scoring exploits.

The 19-year-old former student of Labone Secondary School in Accra enrolled in the Mohawk University in Ontario last year and jumped straight into the school’s soccer team.

With the heat on defending champions Immigration to catch up with league leaders Tesano Spinners, they come up against struggling Western Table Tennis Club in the round one match of the Week seven fixture of the ongoing Stanbic-Graphic Sports sponsored table tennis league this Saturday at the D.G.Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Immigration trio of Emmanuel Commey, Felix Lartey and Derek Abrefa has been offlate subdued by the spinning and smashing prowess of Nigerian duo, Rilwan Akanbi and Ahmed Bello of Tesano Spinners.

Chelsea will begin their title defence at home to Burnley when the 2017-18 Premier League season kicks off on the weekend of 12-13 August.

Newly promoted Newcastle host Tottenham, while Brighton welcome Manchester City and Huddersfield visit Crystal Palace.

Deputy Youth and Sports Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide has played down the perceived Black Stars captaincy brouhaha, saying the customised captaincy armband used by skipper Asamoah Gyan was discussed and planned in anticipation of the player’s 50th goal for the team.

He said it was the reason the team went to the stadium with two sets of armed bands to address any eventuality.

Africa’s leading Digital TV operator, StarTimes has announced that the FIFA Confederations Cup, RUSSIA 2017 will be broadcasted live on its channels, ST World Football, channel number 245 and ST Sports Premium, channel number 246.

The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup will be the 10th FIFA Confederations Cup, a quadrennial international men's football tournament organised by FIFA. It will be held in Russia, from 17 June to 2 July 2017, as a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Spanish prosecutors have accused the Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo of defrauding the authorities of millions of euros in tax.

The prosecutor's office in Madrid says it has filed a lawsuit against the Portuguese player.

The government has decided to peg winning bonuses of all AFCON and World Cup qualifiers plus bonuses at AFCON tournaments at $5,000 with immediate effect.

Henceforth, the Black Stars would no longer be paid in dollars but in the cedi equivalent of the agreed bonus.

In what was likely a first in international football, Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan wore a customised captain's arm armband for Ghana's 5-0 win over Ethiopia in the 2019 Group F qualifier on Sunday

The personalised armband Gyan wore for the Stars comfortable win was in the red, gold and green colours of Ghana but had an image of his portrait on it.

Undefeated American boxer, Floyd "Money" Mayweather has announced that his Undefeated Africa Tour will take place in the fall.

Mayweather's much-publicised tour was postponed on June 12 after he failed to show up for the first leg of the tour in Nigeria.

The chairman of Kenyan club Gor Mahia, who will be Everton’s opponents on their ground-breaking trip to Tanzania, has declared: “We’re not underdogs!”

Everton travel to the 60,000 capacity National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on July 13 where they will take on Gor Mahia, from Nairobi, the capital city of neighbouring Kenya, who won an eight-team competition to win their right to face the Blues.