The Organising Committee of the 2017/18 GFA StarTimes Gala will meet participating clubs and all stakeholders on Friday February 2at the Nduom Stadium in Elmina. The meeting which will include Security officers, match Officials and other key stakeholders will be held at 5pm on Friday. Clubs are expected to attend the meeting with their Official and Reserve strips for the competition for the necessary formalities. A brief opening ceremony for the revived Gala competition will be at 9am on Saturday February 3 before kick off at 10am. The Committee has announced Special Regulations for the invitational competition after it was…
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Barcelona are ready to take counter legal action against PSG star Neymar. Neymar is demanding €30m from Barca he believes he is owed after leaving the club in August. The Brazil international has launched legal action to recover the money. However, Sport says Barca are fighting back through the courts. Barca spokesman Josep Vives has stated in the past: “The player did not meet the agreed conditions. One was that “the player did not negotiate with another club in the last month before July 31” and the other was that he “publicly expressed his willingness to fulfill the contract”. by…
Ghana international Kingsley Sarfo has been arrested in Sweden again for an alleged rape incident involving five underage girls. According to reports in the Swedish media, the Malmo midfielder was apprehended on Tuesday by Police for several rape cases which took place between 1 March 2016 and 10 July 2017 respectfully. Sarfo is said to have committed the crime in the Swedish Cities of Stockholm and UppSala after which he moved to Malmo. This is the third time the former IK Sirius star has been arrested in the Scandinavian country as last year he was twice behind bars for a…
Former Board Member of Accra Hearts of Oak, Alhaji Suleiman Brimah, also known as Alhaji Hearts, who passed on on Wednesday will be buried today at the East Legon Cemetery. The burial ceremony which will take place at 14:00GMT will follow the Janaaiza Prayers (The last Islamic prayer for the dead) at his Odorkor residence in Accra. Alhaji Hearts’ death occurred at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Wednesday where he was on admission for some time. Alhaji Hearts is fondly remembered for his role in the club’s 2000 CAF Champions League triumph and the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup
Former Aduana Stars winger Sampson Boampong Wirekoh, popularly known as Dormaa Messi’ proposed move to Portuguese side SC Braga hit a snag on deadline day, a close source has revealed. Wirekoh, who is without a club after terminating his contract with Aduana, was expected to seal a move to Braga but the move failed to go through. He was denied a visa to the European country. This is because FIFA rules don’t permit players under the age of 18 to travel. The player at the time of applying for the visa was a minor. However, he is in talks with…
The Black Maidens of Ghana have arrived safely in Djibouti for the final World Cup qualifiers. The under-17 female team are a step away form reaching another World Cup, after beating the Gambia in the earlier rounds of the qualifiers. The team is made up of 18 players and the technical team, who are poised to reach Uruguay 2018. Ghana reached the quarter finals of the last edition, and the female U-17 team remains the only team to pick Bronze at the World Cup FULL SQUAD LIST 1. Grace Banwaa 2 Cynthia Findib 3. Tedinah Sekyere 4. Adama Alhassan 5.…
The winner of the 2018 StarTimes Ghana Football Association Gala will take home a gross amount of $5000 as prize-money. The actual amount for winning the trophy is $2000 but each of the sixteen clubs participating in the tournament will get $2500 as appearance fee whilst the four teams which will make it to the semis also have $500 each bringing the total amount for the winner to $5000. The last edition of the Gala competition was in 2005 which was won by Kotoko and the 2018 version promises lots of quality football as most top clubs are involved. Techiman…
Antonio Conte tips his cap to Bournemouth, but refuses to pinpoint what went wrong in Chelsea’s shock defeat at Stamford Bridge.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has told Jose Mourinho he is putting Raphael Varane up for sale this summer. Manchester United manager Mourinho signed Varane for Real when coach, beating Sir Alex Ferguson to the former Lens prospect. Diario Gol says Perez and Mourinho share a close relationship from their time together at the Bernabeu and the former has told the Portuguese he’ll sell Varane if he pays big. The former Chelsea boss is willing to break the bank for Varane’s arrival but will first need to convince the board of his plans. Perez has ideas of his own to…
Mr. Moses Armah (Mospacka) founded Medeama Football Club on 9 September 2008 at exactly 11:00 am. This came as a result of an idea mooted by Mr. James Essilfie; the current Chief Executive Officer in his office at Tarkwa which Mr.Armah thought was a fantastic idea. Little did they know what they had started. Mr.Armah responded in the local language Nzema by responding that, ‘James de ye deye’ which means ‘James let’s form our own club with the primary interest of serving the people of Tarkwa, surrounding towns and villages. (According to the C.e.o, James Asirifi, Medeama sc) The idea…