Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, has distanced himself from comments his agent made this week about the poor quality of players in the First Capital Plus League, assuring members of the Black Stars Management Committee that the national team is open to all players whether local or foreign.

The Israeli trainer reportedly lauded the level of talent in the Ghanaian, league during crunch talks with the Black Stars Management Committee in Accra yesterday, after his representative, Saif Rubie, had suggested that the quality of the league would rule-out local-based players from the national team.

MTN FA Cup title holders, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, have declared ‘war’ on Medeama in Sunday’s final, saying the trophy means ‘everything to the club’ after losing the league title.

With a huge burden on their heads to appease their disappointed fans, Kotoko now have to win the FA Cup to win to guarantee them qualification to the CAF Confederation Cup competition.

‘’We need the trophy for three things: first to regain the confidence of our supporters, compete in Africa and to boost the confidence of our players one more time,” Opoku Nti, General Manager of Kotoko, told the Graphic Sports.

Former Black Satellites midfielder, Godfred Donsah, is the latest addition to Coach Avram Grant’s  24-man squad for the Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Rwanda in Kigali next week Friday. The 19-year-old Satellites midfielder,  played a key role in Coach Sellas Tetteh’s team in the last U-20 World Cup campaign  in New Zealand.

The longest-serving chairman of the Premier League Board (PLB), Mr Welbeck Yaw Abra-Appiah, has decided to drop his tools at the end of the season after a 10-year illustrous reign at the helm of Ghana’s top-flight league.

Breaking the sweet-sour news to the Graphic Sports in an interview, Mr Abra-Appiah said he had paid his dues to Ghana Football and that it was time to bow out and hand over the baton to the younger generation to continue.

The retired Bank Manager, football administrator and businessman believes after chalking many successes in the Premier League under his watch, there cannot be a better time to call it a day than now when the cheers are loudest.

Usain Bolt beat Justin Gatlin to win the 200m and complete the sprint double at the World Championships in Beijing.

Defending champion Bolt, 29, won in 19.55 seconds, with American Gatlin taking silver in 19.74 in a repeat of Sunday's 100m final.

The five senior division clubs in the Greater Accra Hockey League will represent traditional communities of the Greater Accra Region when the 2015 NDK Ga Dangbe Homowo Hockey Gala pushes off on Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.

A two-day seminar to prepare football clubs for the full implementation of the Club Licensing System (CLS) in Ghana was opened in Accra yesterday by GFA Vice- President, Fred Crentsil, who asked CEOs of the 16 Premier League clubs in attendance to apply the knowledge acquired to improve the fortunes of their clubs. 

The president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi will lead a FIFA delegation to Sierra Leone today to resolve the current problems between the Sierra Leonean Football Association (SLFA) and the League clubs.

Two Kenyan runners have been suspended after testing positive for doping at the World Championships in Beijing, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced.

George Haldane Lutterodt, former chairman of the Ghana Athletics Association(GAA), has lashed out at the GAA for the way it has handled Martha Bissah’s qualification for the All Africa Games (AAG).

The young long distance runner failed to qualify for the AAG after two successive attempts.

CAF President Issa Hayatou, a former General Secretary of FIFA, Jorome Champagne and other leading football figures have congratulated the president of the Ghana Football Association(GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi on his re-election, expressing the confidence that his (Nyantakyi’s) experience will help move the sport forward.

In another congratulatory message on behalf of the CAF Executive Committee, Hayatou hailed Nyantakyi's positive attributes in the administration of the game, adding that these attributes would help move Ghana football forward as he begins his new mandate.

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce roared to an unprecedented third women's 100 metres world title in a flash of green dreadlocks as she emulated countryman Usain Bolt on Monday.

Aaron Ramsey says Arsenal’s wrongly disallowed goal against Liverpool underlines the need for video technology.

Mario Balotelli has re-joined AC Milan on a season-long loan and immediately declared he was back to work harder and not to talk.

The Liverpool striker, who had been training away from the first team squad for most of the last month, said he needed to stop talking and knuckle down.

After nearly four decades in active club football, Ashgold Chief Executive, Kudjoe Fianoo, is set to take a bow from club administration and direct his energies to the national front.