The Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association, Francis Oti-Akenten has identified three potential candidates for the nation’s Under 17 team,The Black Starlets in the on-going Airtel Rising Football star competition.

Mr Oti-Akenten expressed delight after watching the young talented players display great football skills in the on-going competition.

The former Black Starlets coach in an interview at the end of the Zone 4 competition said; “We have already been to Takoradi, Konongo, Wa and now Tamale. We have seen some fantastic players and here in Tamale we have seen many potential national team players like Abubakar Malik the male best player and other two players from this zone who we asked to get ready to be called into the national U-17 team,”

Athletic Bilbao's Spanish Super Cup victory over Barcelona prompted immense joy in the Basque city but the players cannot afford to soak it up for too long with tomorrow’s Europa League playoff looming.

Liverpool striker Christian Benteke hopes his winning goal against Bournemouth can provide the platform for a successful Premier League title challenge this season.

Oscar Pistorius is preparing to start the second phase of his jail term — house arrest — when he is released from prison on Friday.

Pistorius, nicknamed the ‘Blade Runner’, will be released from jail on Friday after serving the 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing his model and law graduate girl friend, Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s day in 2013.

Jose Mourinho will not face action from the English Premier League over his public criticism of his medical team.

Dr Eva Carneiro and physio Jon Fearn were criticised by the Chelsea boss after they treated Eden Hazard in the 2-2 draw with Swansea. That meant the midfielder had to leave the pitch and briefly left the Blues with nine men.

Baba Rahman’s Chelsea debut is likely to be delayed for a few more days as the defender has been forced to delay his arrival in the UK because of immigration formalities.

According to the Daily Mail newspaper, the Ghana international must wait till the completion of the necessary work permit and visa applications to be processed by the UK authorities.

Ghana legend Abedi Pele admits he is a proud man after his two sons Jordan and Andre Ayew made their English Premier League debuts earlier this month, and has backed them both to succeed in the English top-flight.

The three-time African Player of the Year watched Jordan make his premiership bow for Aston Villa against Bournemouth before Andre Ayew scored for Swansea against Chelsea later on in the day.

A contingent of the Black Bombers, the national boxing team, arrived in Casablanca,the capital of Morroco, last Sunday for the Africa, Boxing Championship minus a medical doctor.

The team’s preparations towards the competition which is key to Ghana’s participation in the 2016 Olympics in Rio, as well as the World Championship, has been rocked by funding problems as the Ministry of Youth and Sports provided the funds for the trip a day before the commencement ot the competition.

Plaintiffs who say the May 2 Las Vegas fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a fraud and they deserve their pay-per-view money back will argue their cases in front of a federal judge in California.

Judge R. Gary Klausner, the same judge hearing arguments in cases filed against the Sony movie studio related to a computer hacker attack last year, will decide if the Pacquiao cases are granted class-action status before any trial proceeds.

Congress of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) yesterday re-elected Kwasi Nyantakyi to serve another four-year term as the President of the FA.

Mr Nyantakyi, who stood unopposed, promised to focus his next term on the development of juvenile football and the local league to appreciable standard.

The re-elected President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi says he will lead the crusade for reforms in football at the world, continental and national levels.

Moments after winning the mandate to serve another four-year term, Nyantakyi, who has been the FA president since 2006, said he was amendable for reform and change and would play an active role to see such changes in football.

According to him, he was in support for the call for leaders serve fixed terms and would play an active role when the time comes.

" The proposal to have some reforms in FIFA, notably to have fixed terms for presidents and other executive members were rejected at the previous two congresses, but after what has recently happened to football's world governing body, most people may have a change of mind and support it.

"I'm amendable to reform and change. I'm for any change that will improve on the game and will definitely lead the crusade for reforms i

The highest decision making body of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has retained incumbent Kwesi Nyantakyi as president at an extraordinary gathering.

Nyantakyi was retained by 97 out of 123 members present at the University of Development Studies (UDS), Hall in Tamale, on Tuesday morning.

The decision offers Nyantakyi a successive third term in office for the next four years.

According to Sky Sports, Jose Mourhino insulted the banished Chelsea club doctor, Eva carneiro, labeling her a “slut” during their well publicised row in the Premier League opener against Swansea two weeks ago.

Sky Sports published a transcription of the exchange, which took place in Portuguese and includes two insults directed towards Ms Carneiro by Mourhino.
In addition to yelling “slut” in her direction, the Chelsea boss calls for the glamorous medic to stop offering Hazard treatment whilst waving his arms theatrically and shouting, “stop, for f*ck’s sake”.

And only two days ago, the doctor’s ex-boyfriend opened can of worms which gave other possible reasons behind the spat between Mourhino and the 42-year-old medic who joined the English giants in 2009.

The president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi, will today be affirmed at a Delegates Congress at the Tamale Stadium to begin his third term in office.

The Performance Director of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), Dr Kyle Calhoum Pierce, has assured Ghanaian parents that children who wish to take to weightlifting would not suffer from stunted growth.

According to Dr Pierce, who serves as the director of the Weightlifting Development Centre at the Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA, he was personally involved in a research published last year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine which proved that the sport does not damage growth plates in children.