A board member of Special Olympics, Nana Wereko-Ampim Opoku, last Sunday inaugurated a third division football club at Jachie in the Bosomtwe district of Ashanti with an assurance of offering meaningful support to players and technical men of the club in diverse ways.
The chairman of the Premier League Board (PLB), Mr Welbeck Abra-Appiah, joined a host of former international footballers to mourn with Tony Yeboah during the funeral of his mother, Mrs Comfort Yeboah, in Kumasi last Saturday.
A contingent of TP Mazembe players and officials are expected to arrive in Ghana next Thursday, November 20, to engage a local select side, "Dream Team", in a special Governance Cup match at the Accra Sports Stadium on November 22.
The 2015 African champions will be among the key celebrants of the annual Governance Weekend, under the auspices of Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the government of Ghana.
The founder of Dreams FC, a newly promoted First Capital Plus Premier League team, Kurt Okraku, has outdoored three new players at a ceremony in Accra with the assurance of competing favourably in the 2015-2016 Premier League.
Lamine Diack has been provisionally suspended as an honorary member of the International Olympics Committee.
The 82-year-old was president of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) for 16 years, before he was replaced by Lord Coe in August.
Diack is being investigated by French police over allegations he took bribes to cover up positive drugs tests. His suspension comes after a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report accused Russia of widespread doping.
Aduana Stars shot stopper, Stephen Adams, says he has been persuaded by management of the club to extend his contract with a promise to secure an European deal for him in the future.
Barely one week after confirming to Graphic Sports that he was on the verge of a move to Accra Hearts of Oak, the goalkeeper made a surprise u-turn to sign a new contract with the Dormaa-Ahenkro side, saying that he did not want to mar the cordial relationship that existed between him and his employers.
A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over the Black Stars winning bonus following George Afriyie’s insistence that the team’s winning bonus remains $10,000 despite a strong hint dropped by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Mustapha Ahmed, regarding a reduction in the bonus by 50 per cent due to the nation's economic challenges.
A "betrayal", a "destruction of public faith" and a "dark day" for athletics. Leading figures have responded to a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report, which has recommended Russia should be banned from competition.
British sports minister Tracey Crouch called the findings an "extraordinarily dark day for athletics". The report examines claims of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics, which also implicated the IAAF, the sport's world governing body.
The report also states the London 2012 Olympics were "sabotaged" by participation of Russian athletes under suspicion, while Dick Pound - head of the independent commission - described it as "state-sponsored doping".
May the Almighty God have mercy on us we visionless people who in our backsliding, take solace in other people's glory and pride. I look back with nostalgia the days when we spent our energy, wisdom and hard-earned money to secure independence for a people who were struggling under the enslavement of their Belgian colonial masters and were crying for a saviour from above. You can't believe it, today the same people have had the effrontery to buy our talents and have used them to win the CAF champions league, while we languish far behind without the same ability to buy great footballers for the same football competition.
For a moment, it appeared the Ministry of Youth and Sports was not going to participate in the two-day congress of the Ghana Football Association which ended yesterday at the Ghanaman Centre of Excellence at Prampram.
As was reported on the first day, there was no sign of any representative of the ministry showing up. Not even the ebullient Deputy Minister, the VOA himself (Vincent Oppong Asamoah), whose favourite subject appears to be the FA and its workings, could be sighted by the congressmen and women, fuelling the suspicion about the uncozy relationship between the Sports Ministry and the FA.
However, all that must have changed yesterday when the sector Minister, Dr Mustapha Ahmed, graced the function with an address that sounded too good to be true and which could hardly hide the grin on the face of the FA boss and his colleagues.
The president of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, and 18 newly-elected members of the FA’s Executive Committee were sworn into office yesterday for a four-year term.
Former Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira has been appointed as head coach of Major League Soccer club New York City.
Vieira, 39, leaves his role as head coach of Manchester City's Under-21s after signing a three-year contract with New York.
Ashgold CEO, Kudjoe Fianoo has disclosed that sensational New Edubiase United twin brothers, Fuseini and Alhassan Nuhu, are set to complete a two-year switch to the Soccer Miners next season, with a deal expected to be finalised this week.
Ivorian forwards Wilfried Bony, Salomon Kalou and Thomas Toure have all been ruled out injured of the Elephants’ FIFA World Cup qualifying double header against Liberia on November 13 and 17 .
David Moyes has been sacked as head coach of Real Sociedad
The former Everton and Manchester United boss moved to San Sebastian looking to revive his coaching career in La Liga after being sacked by the Red Devils just seven months into his contract at Old Trafford.
