Barring any last minute hitch, The Ghana Football Association (GFA) appoint a new head coach to supervise the activities of the senior national team, Black Stars, on Tuesday, April 4 2017, following a meeting of the body’s highest decision making body. The Executive Committee are said to have agreed on a coach to succeed Avram … Read more
Ghana Football Association communications director Ibrahim Sannie Daara has given the biggest hint yet of the imminent reappointment of Kwesi Appiah as coach of the Black Stars. The 56-year-old is among about five coaches under consideration for the job, with former France international Willy Sagnol and Cameroon trainer Hugo Broos two of about four shortlisted … Read more
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) will name the new coach of the Black Stars on Tuesday following a meeting of the body’s highest decision making body. The Executive Committee will name the replacement for Avram Grant who left the post in the wake of their disastrous showing at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. The … Read more
Cameroon coach Hugo Broos has been summoned to meet the country’s sports ministry and federation On Tuesday after it emerged that the trainer is eyeing a move to coach Ghana. Angry ministry and federation officials have called the Indomitable Lions head coach into a meeting to discuss widespread media reports in Ghana that he is … Read more
Hugo Broos has been summoned by the Federation of Cameroonian Football (FECAFOOT) and the sports ministry of Cameroon over links to the vacant coaching job in Ghana. Broos is one of the three coaches who underwent interview over the weekend for the next coach of the Black Stars. He was interviewed via Skype by the … Read more
Crystal Palace defender Jeffrey Schlupp has praised the hard fought win that his side earned against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. The Eagles earned an unlikely 2-1 victory with goals from Christian Benteke and Wilfried Zaha, three points that gave them higher hopes of escaping relegation. It was an unlikely victory, for no team … Read more
According to the company’s Vice President, the newly acquired StarTimes rights indicates the company’s desire to provide subscribers with the best sports content. Pay TV operator, StarTimes has secured broadcasting rights to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. FIFA on Thursday, March 31, officially granted media rights to all 2017-2018 FIFA events in Sub-Saharan Africa. Besides … Read more
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have enough vaccine doses to deal with a deadly meningitis outbreak because they are too expensive, a senior official has said. Each vaccine dose costs $50, and only 500,000 doses are currently available, Dr … Read more
The Black Starlets will take on their counterparts from Tanzania today in an international friendly at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam. The game forms part of preparations for both countries ahead of their participation at this year’s Africa Junior Championship in Gabon from May 21-June 4. The Serengeti Boys, who are tying all … Read more
Former Black Stars coach, Kwesi Appiah, is among a pack of three coaches that have undergone an interview by the select committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to take the role of the Ghana national team job. African Cup of Nations winning coach with Cameroon, Hugo Broos, and former France international, Willy Sagnol, together … Read more
Abdul Majeed Waris played the entire game as Cameroon captain Benjamin Moukandjo scored the lone goal in Lorient’s victory against Caen at the Stade Yves Allainmat on Sunday. The victory was the second straight win for Les Merlus and it pushed them from the bottom of the table into 19th position above Bastia. Lorient have … Read more
Former Cameroon international Rigobert Song has thanked the country’s fans and President for their support as he arrived back in Cameroon following six months of treatment in a Paris hospital. The former Liverpool player was taken ill in October 2016 when he suffered a brain aneurysm and was hospitalised in Yaounde where his condition stabilised … Read more
The 2026 World Cup should be played with 48 teams, in a format that remains to be defined. Former Cameroonian international Samuel Eto’o told Jeune Afrique on the subject. On 9 and 10 January 2017 in Zürich, on the occasion of the FIFA Council meeting, Gianni Infantino, the president of the organization, will present his … Read more
Former Ghana striker Prince Opoku Polley reckons the Black Stars chances of playing at the 2018 Fifa World Cup are all but over. Five points adrift of leaders Egypt after matchday two, the West Africans no more have their destiny in their hands following a draw and a defeat to Uganda and the Pharaohs respectively. … Read more
Crystal Palace defender Jeffrey Schlupp has praised the hard fought win that his side earned against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. The Eagles earned an unlikely 2-1 victory with goals from Christian Benteke and Wilfried Zaha, three points that gave them higher hopes of escaping relegation. It was an unlikely victory, for no team … Read more
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) used Skype to conduct a fruitful interviews of two of the five shortlisted coaches for the Black Stars job, Kwesi Appiah and Hugo Broos at the Alisa Hotel on Friday. Broos, who led the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon to win this year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon failed to … Read more
Some under-contract high profile coaches have started sneaking into Ghana for interviews regarding the vacant Black Stars coaching job. The six-member panel which has been empowered to look for a new coach will start the interviews this morning as they are expected to meet five coaches over the next three days. Although the GFA has … Read more
Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, according to residents and vigilantes. In the first attack on Thursday, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near border with Cameroon where they kidnapped 18 girls. ‘Boko Haram fighters from Mamman Nur camp arrived in pickup vans around … Read more
Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and vigilantes told AFP. In the first attack on Thursday, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near border with Cameroon where they kidnapped 18 girls. “Boko Haram fighters from Mamman Nur camp arrived in pickup vans around … Read more
Egypt defeated Ghana when they met at the 2017 AFCON Former Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor says Egypt hold the aces to edge Ghana in the 2018 World Cup qualifying race. The Black Stars are in real danger of missing out for the global showpiece in Russia as they lie third in Group E. The four-time … Read more