The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has renewed its relationship with the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) by supporting the 42nd MTN-SWAG Awards with GH¢30,000.
The package, which includes cash and products, is to ensure the successful organisation of the longest running sports awards scheme in Ghana.
Premier Club, Accra Hearts of Oak, after their run of impressive results in the top flight, will turn their focus on the MTN FA Cup Round of 32 home assignment against Kotoko Royals FC at the Accra Stadium on Sunday in an attempt to avoid an upset.
Hearts have honoured six straight matches without a loss and will hope to replicate a similar feat in the MTN FA Cup when they lock horns with the ambitious Division One side from Akim Oda who are keen on making it to the Round of 16 stage of the competition.
Coach Mas-Ud Didi Dramani and Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo have been named as the new coach and assistant coach respectively of the female senior national football team, the Black Queens.
The vice president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr George Afriyie, let the cat out of the bag last Wednesday when he launched the Sanford Women’s FA Cup.
New Ghana coach Kwasi Appiah made a winning start to his second stint as head coach of the Black Stars leading the local Black Stars to a 5-0 friendly win over lower-tier Accra Lions on Wednesday at Prampram.
Mr Ernest Thompson, a member of the Black Stars Management Committee, says that the targets set for Coach Kwasi Appiah are ‘realistic, feasible and achievable.’
Ghana Football Association (GFA) vice-president, Mr George Afriyie, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Mr Francis Assenso, have been appointed as co-chairmen of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 2017 West Africa Football Union (WAFU) tournament to be hosted by Ghana.
Kwadwo Asamoah won a third successive Coppa Italia title after Juventus defeated Lazio 2-0 on Wednesday.
The Ghana international was an unused substitute for Juventus who strolled to victory courtesy goals by Dani Alves and Leonardo Bonucci.
Ghana became the first team to qualify for the semi-final at the Total U-17 African Cup of Nations Gabon 2017 after securing a 5- 0 win against hosts Gabon at the Stade de Port Gentil.
In-form striker and captain, Eric Ayiah and midfielder Emmanuel Toku scored a brace each while second-half substitute Patmos Arhin added the other goal for Black Starlets' second win in as many matches in Group A following Sunday’s 4-0 win against Cameroon.
Sanford World Clinics, sponsors of the women’s FA Cup competition in Ghana, has increased this sponsorship money for this season’s competition from GH¢200,000 to GH¢225,000.
Suspended Black Stars player, Kevin-Prince Boateng may have a career as an entertainer when he retires after he uploaded a video of himself singing along to Michael Jackson's hit song "Wanna Be Starting Something".
The video which Boateng shared on his Instagram page shows him singing along to the song while on a drive with a friend.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GEODRILL Ghana Limited, Dave Harper, has promised to offer Ghanaian athletes who win gold at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia a $10,000 prize.
Ghana has won a total of 57 medals since the inception of the Games in 1930, 15 out of which have been gold, with the last being the golds which were won by Ignisious Gaisah and Majeti Fetrie at the Melbourne Games in 2006.
Ghana’s Black Starlets are a win away from making the semi-finals of the ongoing Africa U-17 Cup of Nations when they lock horns with hosts Gabon at the Stade de Port-Gentil later today.
After thrashing giants Cameroun 4-0 in their opening game last Sunday, the Starlets will automatically qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be staged in India in October if they beat Gabon.
Newly-appointed Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, is bent on leaving a rich legacy by building a formidable team that can last for the next decade.
To ensure that, he intends to create competition in the team as the first step towards reviving the fortunes of the Black Stars.
Former Black Stars skipper, Stephen ‘Tornado’ Appiah, has been given a new role as the Technical Coordinator of the senior national team with a long-term view to grooming him into an expert for the nation.
The new portfolio, according to new Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, is to empower the former Hearts of Oak and Juventus midfielder to become a great help to the nation in the near future.
Kwasi Appiah has been officially unveiled as the head coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars after he began his two-year stint on May 1 earlier this month.
As widely speculated, Appiah has made some changes to the technical staff of the team with former internationals, Ibrahim Tanko, Stephen Appiah and Richard Kingson joining the backroom staff.
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