The Black Starlets of Ghana defeated Niger 2-0 in an all-African Round of 16 clash at the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday. The win earns the Black Starlets a quarter-final clash versus another African opponent in Mali on Saturday in Guwahati.
Rabiatu Naa Ayorkor Ofoli was born on July 23, 2002 at La, Accra, in the Greater Accra Region.
She is a Ghanaian professional table tennis and badminton player. She was trained to play table tennis by Coach Yarboi, the former Greater Accra coach, and later by Coach Anang Whyte, the Eastern Regional coach.
This week, the President of Elmina Sharks has openly complained about the lack of fair play in the Ghana Premier League, especially in situations where referees have decided the results of matches instead of players of opposing sides, or where club administrators connive to cheat.
Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom’s club lost 1-2 to Aduana Stars at Dormaa-Ahenkro last Sunday and as a result handed Aduana the league title. But beyond protests by Sharks over perceived injustice during the match, Dr Nduom followed it up by venting his disappointment about the lack of fair play in the competition and the need for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Premier League Board (PLB) to sit up to the clear danger presently facing the sport.
Coach Paa Kwasi Fabin will be without his sensational midfielder, Sadiq Mohammed, when Ghana’s Black Starlets clash with their Nigerien counterparts at the round of 16 stage of the ongoing FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Mumbai today.
The 17-year-old playmaker, whose goal secured Ghana's first victory against Colombia in the opening match, is suspended after picking two yellow cards in the competition.
Undefeated boxer, Bastie "The Beast" Samir, has warned Braimah Kamoko to be careful in his bid to knock him out in round six and rather prevent going down instead.
Bastie told the Graphic Sports yesterday during an opening training session at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra that he was ready to challenge Bukom Banku on Saturday, having prepared to engage his opponent on September 30 before the fight was rescheduled.
Yusif Abubakar, the head coach of uncrowned Ghana Premier League champions, Aduana Stars, has stated that contrary to the assertion that the league is dying, it is still very competitive from the technical perspective.
He said despite steering Aduana Stars to clinch their second league title this season, the journey had been tough for the club this far.
Seven foreign-based players — six known and one yet to feature for Ghana at any level — have been invited to join the Black Queens as they play two international friendlies against France and Morocco next week.
The six are Elizabeth Addo (Damallsvenskan club Kvarnsvedens IK) and Portia Boakye, (who plays for Turkish side Trabzon Idmanocagi), who both featured for the Queens at the 2016 Africa Women’s Championship. The list includes former under-17 and under-20 team players, Ernestina Abambila, and Faustina Ampah, (both of Belarusian side ZFK Minsk), Sandra Owusu-Ansah and Alice Kusi (both of Lebanon’s Zouk Mosbeh Girls), as well as Grace Adams from University of South Florida.
Cruiserweight pugilist, Braimah Kamoko, alias Bukom Banku, has vowed to make the weight to fight Bastie "The Beast" Samir on Saturday despite doubts by his opponent's camp that he will weigh above the required limit.
Banku, who has been preparing feverishly to fight Bastie in their "Make of Break" non-title fight at the Bukom Boxing Arena on Saturday, said he had been training hard to win the bout and was still confident of finishing off his opponent in round six.
Everton have sent scouts to watch Red Star Belgrade’s prolific striker Richmond Boakye Yiadom as the Ghanaian is attracting interest from clubs across Europe, according to Serbian publication HotSport.
The 24-year-old has been in a rich vein of form throughout 2017 – scoring 31 goals so far for both club and country – and his goalscoring exploits have not gone unnoticed.
Two-time champions Ghana will start as favourites against a gutsy continental neighbour's Niger in what promises to be an exciting round of 16 clashes in the FIFA U-17 World Cup on Wednesday in India.
Ghana has a pedigree in the age-group competition – having won it in 1991 and 1995 and having reached four out of five finals in the 1990s in which they dominated the age group competition.
The owner of Elmina Sharks, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has taken a swipe at the Ghana Football Association after his side lost 2-1 at Aduana Stars last Sunday in the penultimate game of the 2017 Ghana Premier League.
According to the businessman, his side lost the clash because of poor officiating. The win helped Aduana Stars to win this year’s Ghana Premier League.
Under-pressure Everton manager Ronald Koeman said he hoped his struggling side had gained "a little bit of confidence" after Wayne Rooney's 90th-minute penalty earned them a 1-1 draw at Brighton.
The Toffees, who spent £140m on new players in the summer, have won just two of their opening eight league games this season.
After two weeks residential camping at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in Accra, Ghana’s male and female national hockey teams will fly to Egypt today ahead of the Africa Hockey Cup tournament which kick starts in the Egyptian city of Ismalia on Thursday.
A total of 36 players, comprising 18 males and 18 female were selected to represent Ghana in the tournament.
Polish champions Legia Warsaw have started talks with Sulley Muniru after the midfielder impressed on trials with them.
Muniru, the junior brother of former Ghana international Sulley Muntari, was handed a one-week trial by the Polish giants after he had his contract terminated by Romanian side Steaua Bucharest in April this year for fighting with a teammate and disrespecting the club President.
Ghana’s Black Starlets remain committed to ending their two decades title draught and are confident Niger will not stop their forward march when the two sides clash on Wednesday in a Round of 16 clash at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Navi Mumbai.
It would be an all-Africa battle among familiar foes and a repeat of the semifinal clash between the two sides at the Under-17 Africa Cup in Gabon where the Ghanaians triumphed 6-5 on penalties to seal a place in the continental final.
