AS Vita Club who failed to progress in the 2018 CAF Champions League is set to visit Ghana to play Ghana’s 2017 Premier League champions, Aduana Stars in the CAF Confederation Cup. The Dormaa based side will host them(AS Vita Club) at the Nana Agyemang Badu Stadium in Dormaa Ahenkro in Group A, round of 3 fixture of the competition. Aduana Stars, who bowed out of the CAF Champions League is set to redeem it image with the CAF confederation Cup. The clash, however, is scheduled for Wednesday, 18 July.1:00 pm GMT. AS Vita Club in the African competition have…
Author: Kwame Stephen Yeboah
Former Hearts of oak Striker Cosmos Dauda has joined Al-Faisaly in Jordan . The 24 – year was unveiled yesterday by the side after signing a two-year deal. Dauda , was part of 4 players released by the Phobian club Hearts of oak for lack of playing time close to the end of the first round of the Zylofon Cash Ghana Premier League. He was initially linked with a move to Ghana Premier league side Elmina Sharks but the enterprising Striker have decided to try his luck outside Ghana. Dauda, who came to the lime light When Japanese coach Kenichi…
Ace Sports Journalist Dan Kweku Yeboah has been appointed spokesperson for FIFA/CAF liaison team. The renowned sports broadcaster will team-up with Dr. Kofi Amoah and Francis Oti Akenteng who make up the two-man liaison team. Government after a meeting with FIFA appointed the two men to liaise between FIFA and CAF as heads of Ghana Football. The two men replaced an initial five-member committee set up by the government. Dan Kweku Yeboah, who was appointed as spokesperson for the five-member committee has been tasked again to be the voice of the two-member team thus Dr. Kofi Amoah and Oti Akenteng.…
The liaison team formed by FIFA and CAF with support from the Government of Ghana to find the way for Ghana football after the effects of the Anas Aremeyaw Anas documentary has stated it will pay the outstanding salaries of workers of the Ghana Football Association. The Ghana Football Association has not functioned since June 8 when the Ghana Police Service declared it a crime scene in the aftermath of the airing of the Anas tape and its workers have not been at their posts. The fate of the workers of the FA has been in the balance since the…
Head coach of Ghana Premier League side , Aduana Stars, Yussif Abubakar has thanked the bankroller of the club after he was voted the best coach in Ghana for the 2017/2018 season in the Ghana Football Awards night Yussif Abubakar won the league with Aduana stars and qualified them to the money zone of the Caf confederations Cup. The experienced coach thanked the club owner and the management after he saw off stiff opposition from forner Hearts of Oak coach Frank Nuttal and Kumasi Asante Kotoko coach Steve Polack to win the prestigious award. “I want to take this opportunity…
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu- Addo, has reinstated, with immediate effect, the Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports , Pius Enam Hadzide, and the Board Chair of the National Sports Authority, Kwadwo Baah Agyeman, following the Completion of investigation into the ” Australia Visa Scandal ” by the Criminal investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The report of the enquiry into the allegations, which was submitted to the president on Friday 6th July,2018, contained no adverse findings against them. The president confirmed the deputy Minister for Youth and Sports was exonerated from the Visa…
Ghanaian duo, James Kotei and Nicholas Gyan were in blistering form last Sunday for their Tanzanian Club Simba Sc when they defeated AS Ports of Djibouti 1-0 in the quarter finals of the 2018 Cecafa – Kagame Cup played at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. The duo played a pivotal role when the Msimbazi Kariako based club won the 2017/2018 Tanzania Premier League which ended last month. The 2018 Cecafa – Kagame Cup started on June 28, with 4 teams in 3 groups . Coach Pierre Lechantre side, Simba sc were placed in Group C with…
The Accra High Court has adjourned hearing for an injunction application filed by the Attorney-General against the Ghana Football Association. The case was adjourned to Thursday July 12, 2018 to allow lawyers for the GFA to respond to the application. Last month, the A-G filed an ex- parte application for a ten-day injunction on all football activities in the country which also bars the GFA and its officials from carrying out any official duties within the stipulated time. After the expiration of the 10 days, the A-G filed another application this time a motion on notice to extend the injunction.…
GNPC Foundation, the Corporate Social arm of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, (GNPC )will on Friday, July 13, 2018 cut sod to construct an Ultra Modern Artificial Turf at the Effia-Kuma Police Park,Takoradi. The traditional football ground, which has seen the rise of many football stars in the western Region will be turned from the Sandy ground to an ultra Modern artificial Astro Turf courtesy GNPC Foundation. Dr. K.K.Sarpong, (Chief Excutive Officer of GNPC), Dr.Kwame Baah- Nuako (Executive Director of GNPC Foundation), Moses Antwi- Benefo( Head of Media and PR at GNPC Foundation) and Honorable Joseph Cudjoe, who’s the Member…
The Sekondi Sports Stadium might replace Accra Sports Stadium for the upcoming 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations after a delegation from Confederation of Africa Football, the Local Organising Committee and some authorities from the Western Region inspected the facility today, July 8, 2018. Honourable Alex Agyekum, Member of Parliament for Mpohor in the Western Region led a team of Officials from CAF headed by, Mr Sampson Adamu, the LOC chairperson, Honourable Freda Prempeh and some officials from the Ministry of Youth and Sports to do an inspection at the Sekondi Sports Stadium, as a possible replacement for the Accra…