Assistant coach Godwin Ablordey has taken temporary charge of Kumasi Asante Kotoko following the dismissal of substantitve coach, Zdravko Lugarusic, after 11 matches in the ongoing league.
Ablordey, a former captain of Kotoko, will act until a new substantive coach is appointed to replace the 52-year-old Croat who was dismissed for unimpressive results.
The FA Cup Committee (FACC) will conduct the Round of 64 draw of the MTN FA Cup at the Conference Hall of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
The 16 Premier League clubs will join the 48 Division One and Two teams that qualified from the preliminary round to determine the pairings for the Round of 64.
Tema Youth settled for a 1-1 drawn game with Wa All Stars in their 11th-week encounter at the Tema Stadium yesterday.
The original fixture last Sunday was abandoned in the 18th minute due to a rainstorm which left the pitch waterlogged and unsuitable for football and referee William Agbovi had no other option but to apply the rules by ending the game and rescheduling it (for yesterday).
Visiting Aduana Stars survived a late onslaught from Great Olympics to win 2-1 in their rescheduled Match day 11 Ghana Premier League (GPL) fixture at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The match was rained off last Sunday. When it was replayed yesterday, a ninth-minute own goal by Olympics captain Dan Quaye and Bright Adjei’s 38th-minute drive secured the win for the visitors, as Abel Manomey’s goal from a powerful shot in the second half only gave Olympics a false sense of hope but could not save them from defeat.
Marshalls College, in Accra, for the second successive year, won the Basketball competition of the Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) Basketball competition.
In March, when he was presented with his historic GH₵990,650 (£173,000) winnings by Betway, Kwame Fosuhene was still yet to decide how to spend his newfound wealth.
However, a month later it appears Fosuhene has found the perfect way to splurge his largesse.
Following his magnificent display at the Westchester Table Tennis Centre, Ghanaian ping-pong star, Courage Nenevie, has been awarded a five-year scholarship by the, Centre.
The Peter Mensah Sports Foundation (PM Sports) last Saturday rounded up their one-week tennis clinic organised for children aged 8-14 with a grand durbar at the Ghana Tennis Club at Adabraka.
The event, which attracted a large crowd, including the president of the Ghana Tennis Club, Mr Isaac Duah, started with participants going through technical, physical and complete tennis training before they were divided into groups to compete among themselves.
Jockey Jonathan Mensah has appealed to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and corporate bodies to help develop and promote horse racing in the country.
This, he said will not only create employment opportunities for the youth but will help them desist from engaging in social vices.
Marshalls College, in Accra, for the second successive year, won the Basketball competition of the Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) Basketball competition.
The Marshalls basketball team, in a space of one week, also won silver at the Universities, Polytechnic and Colleges (UPAC) Games.
The total prize money for the 2017 McDan West African Open Tennis Championship has been doubled from the previous tournament, organisers have announced. The winners of this year's tournament will split $10,000 compared to the $5,000, they shared in 2016.
The organisers expect that the prize money will be enough to bait the finest tennis players on the African continent to come to Ghana from April 24 to 29 when the tournament takes place at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The tennis courts at the Accra Sports Stadium are due for major face-lift following the decision of the Executive Chairman of the McDan Group, Dr Daniel Mckorley, to renovate it at a cost of GHC50,000.
The courts are currently in a state of disrepair with only a few days to the start of Ghana's flagship tennis tournament, the McDan Open on April 24, which is being put together by the McDan Group in collaboration with the Ghana Tennis Federation (GTF)
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) will by the close of next month embark on a rigorous fund-raising exercise aimed at mobilising enough funds to support federations and athletes who will be competing in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia next year.
The GOC is, therefore, setting up a working structure in the form of a board by close of next week to be supported by nine sub-committees which will become the working arm of the board.
Former Ghana Premier League Champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, has sacked 52-year-old Croatian trainer Zdravko Logarusic, after 11 matches in the ongoing campaign.
The board arrived at the decision after a stormy late night meeting in Kumasi last Sunday after the Logarusic's second home drawn game at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi against Ebusua Dwarfs.
Former Premier League Champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, have sacked 52-year-old Croatian trainer Zdravko Lugarusic, after 11 matches in the ongoing league.
