Yakubu Mohammed scored a 90+3 minute penalty for Kumasi Asante Kotoko to snatch a 1:0 first leg advantage against Club Athlétique Renaissance Aiglon (CARA) in a game that Referee Issah Sey awarded five penalties. Striker Saddick Adams failed to find the back of the net from the spot with just 12 minutes showing on the clock. The disappointed supporters in Red and White witnessed two more spot kicks scared away by the Congolese Shot-stopper. Steve Pollack, head Coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko threw more cards forward in search of the game’s opener. It was the turn of skipper Amos Frimpong…
Author: Kwame Stephen Yeboah
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has learned he faces fresh competition for Tottenham striker Harry Kane. Perez is prepared to offer €200m to Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to sign Kane – but also knows he will have to overcome stiff competition to win the striker’s signature. Manchester United were linked with Kane in Marca over the weekend – but it is Manchester City’s interest which has now reached Perez’s desk. Diario Gol says intermediaries have warned Perez that City boss Pep Guardiola is also keen on Kane and approved a massive move for the England international. Indeed, City are prepared…
Manchester City ace Kevin de Bruyne insists he’s not bothered about individual honours. City boss Pep Guardiola has declared De Bruyne could win the Ballon d’Or. But the Belgium international responded: “I do everything to win titles with the team. What happens after is an extra. “I am very pleased with the way everything is going for me. I am playing this way because the team is playing this way. “It makes it easier for me, it makes it easier for them. At the end, if you get an individual honour it is beautiful.”
Chelsea ace Eden Hazard is ready to test himself against Champions League opponents Barcelona and Lionel Messi. Chelsea and Barca meet in the round of 16. Hazard said: “It’s a great Champions League game. This season we haven’t been the same as last season, of course, and they are clearly very good, but at the end of the day it is a knock-out tie and you never know what might happen. That’s why we love football. I’m sure that we can beat them if we play together, we will see.” On Messi he had no doubts: “Barça have a player…
Andre Ayew was delighted to be part of Swansea City’s win over Burnley. It was Ayew’s first appearance since rejoining the Swans from West Ham United for a club-record fee on deadline day. “It was a great feeling to be back in a Swans shirt,” he told the club’s website. “It was good to come on and help us win the game. “It was fairly easy coming back into the team. Most of the players know the way I like to play and I felt a lot of happiness when I came back into the dressing room, which is very…
Libyan side Al Tahaddi secured a 1:0 victory against Dormaa based, Aduana Stars in a near-empty Stadium in the first leg of the CAF Champions League preliminary round. Despite playing home away from home, the Libyans showed class and purpose, but were undone by missed chances and the safest gloves of goalkeeper Joseph Addo. Aduana Stars did well defensively, the pair of Paul Aidoo and Stephen Anokye Badu ensured that the goal had a good cover. The home side probed for the game’s first and found the first on the 34th minute after Mahmoud Ahmed rounded up two defenders before…
Ghana Premier League outfit, Karela United Football Club have today presented their newly acquired players to their supporters and the media. Former Aduana’s skipper Godfred Saka, Ibrahim Moro formerly of Bolga All Stars, Donald Wellington from Sierra Leone, Ourega from Ivory Coast and Ashanti Gold SC’s Emmanuel Osei Baffuor were today unveiled to the charged crowd ahead of the club’s friendly against USC De Bassam. The players went through a photoshoot session with the Club’s President, David Cobbina Brigidi.
Referee Ben Samari and Referee Patrick Okyere today emerged as winners in the Takoradi Referees Association Election to retain posts as the chairman and vice till 2022. The quadrennial election was held today, February 10 at the Ghana Secondary Technical School(GSTS) where the two retained both offices until 2022. Aside the two, Ben Samari and Patrick Okyere that went through reelection to retain the Chairman and the Vice Chairman seats respectively, other positions such as: Treasurer and Secretary were picked up without a contest. Referee George Vormavor served as the treasurer from 2014, but have left ths position for fitness…
Newly promoted Ghana Premiership side Karela United set to play USC Bassam of Ivory Coast in an international friendly game on Sunday 11th February,2018 at the Cosby Awuah Memorial Park at Anyinase. The Nzema based club will use the game to prepare their team ahead of the start of the new season which was supposed to start on Sunday 11thFebruary,2018 but was postponed due to the court injunction placed on the League by Accra Great Olympics. The Ivorian side will be one of the many clubs the Nzema based club will play until a new date is set for the…
Elmina Sharks player Enock Abakrow expresses interest in playing for GN Bank Division One entrants Skyy FC. Enoch Abakrow who had a turbulent season with parent club, Elmina Sharks ended up on loan at GPL newly promoted side Karela United last season. The Center Back is now with his club Elmina Sharks after a loan spell at Nzema based side last season. In his comment about Skyy FC loosing a game he typed “Skyy FC on my mind if possible” It seems the stalwart defender has fallen in love with the newly promoted side and will relish a move to…