National top seed and ace ping-pong player Felix Lartey says the Immigration team will win this season’s national table tennis league scheduled to begin later this month.
He also disclosed that the team after winning the league would compete in the Africa Club Championship tournament in Morocco.
It has now been confirmed that a former assistant coach of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun, Ibrahim Tanko, will be Coach Kwasi Appiah’s main assistant during his second stint with the Black Stars.
This was the fallout of a proposal the new Black Stars coach submitted to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) last Tuesday.
The United States have now confirmed an international friendly with Ghana in July in preparation for the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup which takes place across the United States from July 6-21.
The United States, who beat Ghana 2-1 in the opening group game of the Brazil 2014 World Cup, will play Ghana for the first time on Ghana's Republic Day on July 1 at the Pratt and Whitney Stadium in East Hartford, Connecticut, a week before they open their 2017 Gold Cup campaign against Panama on July 8.
Ghanaian defender Harrison Afful is unsure which country his newborn son will represent when he grows up.
Afful's wife, Roberta delivered their second child, Kendrick, on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio in the USA and even before the youngster starts walking his father has already been quizzed about which country he will represent if he becomes a footballer.
Former Egypt coach Hassan Shehata claims he was approached by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to take over the recently vacant Black Stars post.
The Ghana job has since been handed to Kwasi Appiah who began his official duties on May 1 but Shehata in an interview with Kingfut.com said the handlers of the Ghana national team as well as Nigeria approached him about taking over but the negotiations broke down.
A car fit for a champion? On Saturday night, Anthony Joshua knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round to retain his IBF title and claim the vacant WBA and IBO belts.
But it turns out the 27-year-old received another luxury item recently. Shortly before his title fight, SVO delivered a £150,000 bespoke Range Rover to Joshua.
Ghanaian midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah was an unused substitute as Juventus defeated Monaco 2-0 in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League at the Stade Louis II on Wednesday.
Gonzalo Higuain scored twice from Dani Alves passes to put Juventus in control of their Champions League semifinal with Monaco ahead of next week's second leg in Turin.
Three-time world bantamweight champion, Joseph "Kingkong" Agbeko will step into the ring for the first this year as the headline act for a bill titled; Legacy Boxing Night slated for June 9 at the Bukom Boxing Arena.
Agbeko, 37, will take on Kenyan boxer Nick Otieno, a onetime UBO World, IBF International and WBC International Bantamweight Champion, and the current WBA Pan African Champion in a 12-round bout.
A Board member of Accra Hearts of Oak, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has praised the Phobians for their magnificent performance which resulted in their 3-1 victory over rivals, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, last Monday.
He said team spirit and the never-say-die attitude displayed by the Phobians spoke volume of the significant transformation the team had undergone and was positive about the club’s chances in the league if they maintained the same tempo.
Accra Hearts of Oak’s deputy coach, Henry Lamptey Wellington, is confident that his side can beat Kotoko again in the return leg of their 60th Independence anniversary celebration match at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on May 28.
Back to back victories over Kotoko within a space of two months have buoyed the confidence of the Phobians and given them legitimate bragging rights, especially after last Monday’s emphatic 3-1 win at the Accra Sports Stadium watched by a sizeable crowd, including President Nana Akufo-Addo and his vice, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Former President John Dramani Mahama has tweeted his support for Sulley Muntari who stormed off a pitch on Sunday after he was racially abused by fans during a Serie A match between Cagliari and Pescara.
Pescara midfielder Muntari was banned for one game after he walked off the pitch at Cagliari on Sunday, having been booked for complaining to the referee about racist abuse in the crowd.
Asamoah Gyan's record 31-goal haul in an Arabian Gulf League season is under threat from Al Jazira striker Al Ahmed Mabkhout.
Al Jazira is currently on 62 points and wins in both the games will see them overhaul Al Ahli's record haul of 66 points, set last season.
Ghana's table tennis icon, Courage Nanevie, has presented a quantity of tennis equipment to the Ghana Table Tennis Federation (GTTF).
The items, worth thousands of cedis, include a robot machine, a set of 100 balls for multi balls training, four packs of three-star zhuxafa balls, two cans of water based glue, a modern random balls picker, a multi ball pan and a dozen of batteries to operate the robot machine.
The Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF) has distributed assorted protective equipment to the various regional associations to help in the development of the sport across the country.
Equipment such as hand, chin, fore-arm and trunk protectors, as well as head gear were donated to nine regional executive members at a short ceremony held at the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) secretariat in Accra.
Caretaker coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Frimpong Manso, faces a tough task in restoring confidence in the team and returning them to winning ways against Accra Great Olympics when the Premier League resumes on Saturday.
Fifth-placed Kotoko have not won a league match since losing 0-1 to Hearts on March 19 in Accra and their visits to the nation’s capital have not been favourable this year.
