Emmanuel Agyemang Badu will wear the armband for Ghana’s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday. Badu is third in command behind substantive captain Asamoah Gyan and Andre Ayew and will captain the team in their absence. This will not be the first time the Udinese player … Read more
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero will miss Saturday’s derby against Manchester United in the Premier League after being banned for three games. A Football Association panel found Aguero, 28, guilty of violent conduct after he elbowed West Ham’s Winston Reid in City’s 3-1 Premier League win on Sunday. Argentina international Aguero is also suspended for … Read more
West Ham United co-chairman David Sullivan have revealed that injured star Andre Ayew is expected to return to the pitch next month. Ayew picked up a thigh injury after only 35 minutes in their Premier League opener at Stamford Bridge last month. He is billed to return in December a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in … Read more
Ghana’s Sports Ministry is ready to pay US$2,500 as winning bonus to the Black Stars for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda on Saturday in Accra. The amount is the lowest to be paid by the state to the senior national team in two decades. The Ministry has adopted this approach because … Read more
Interim Rwanda coach Jimmy Mulisa has axed five players from the team that will face Ghana in a Group H-Africa Nations’ qualifier scheduled on September 3 at the Accra Sports Stadium. Mulisa has reduced the number of players in the team to 24 players and is expected to drop six others further on Wednesday, leaving … Read more
The FA President of Mauritius Sohba Mohammad Ally Samir says his National team players are not greedy adding that they do not take money before representing their national team. The FA boss made this comment speaking to Kumasi base Otec FM ahead of Mauritius AFCON qualifier clash against the Black Stars on Sunday. He, however, … Read more
The Ghana Black Stars narrowly lost the return leg of the Chan 2016 qualifier to the local Elephants 1-0 in Abidjan on Friday, failing to progress to the finals. Ghana lost 1-0 to Cote D’Ivoire in the return leg of the 2016 African Nations Championship played in Abidjan on Friday. The local Elephants claimed the … Read more
The Ministry of Sports is reported to have carried a sum of $200,000 in cash on a plane to Rwanda to pay the Black Stars for beating the Amavubi in the Afcon 2017 qualifier at the weekend. The problem with this action is that it flies in the face of well-publicised recommendations from the Justice … Read more
The Ghana FA will enter into a formal agreement with the Black Stars players on their code of conduct, amount of bonuses to be paid them and the mode of payment before they face Uganda in their opening 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Ghana FA spokesman Ibrahim Sannie Daara confirmed that the players will … Read more
Ivory Coast will be disqualified from the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations if they forfeit their qualifier against Sierra Leone because of fears over Ebola. The Ivorian government will not allow the match, which is scheduled for 6 September in Abidjan, to go ahead. Ivory Coast said their options are “to relocate the game or … Read more