Former Nigeria international Austin Okocha, Argentina legend Diego Maradona and Netherlands great Edwin van der Sar are part of an 11-man panel that will select the 23-man shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2017 award, FIFA announced on their official website on Wednesday. Other football legends who are in the 11-man panel are Colombian icon Carlos Valderrama, Brazil 1994 ...

IT WOULD be a “big blow” to the Spanish economy if UK holidaymakers listen to militant groups who accuse them of “destroying” the country, a tourism expert declared. Popular holiday resorts have been targeted with messages telling visitors they are “not welcome” and they have repeatedly been told to “go home”. Alexander Goransson, lead analyst, and tourism specialist at Euromonitor, ...

Barcelona have struck a £104million deal with Liverpool to sign Philippe Coutinho, according to reports in the Spanish media. The Spanish giants have been chasing the player all summer, but having had bids of £74million and £90million rejected, it’s believed Barcelona have finally convinced Liverpool into selling their star Brazilian. Ernesto Valverde’s team have this week completed the signing of ...

Kotoko sealed through to the semi-finals of the MTN FA Cup after beating lower division side Nea Salamina 2-1 at the Babayara Sports Stadium on Wednesday. The Reds escaped a scare from the division one side as they lived it late to progress to the next round of the competition. Striker Saddick Adams gave Kotoko the lead in just 16 ...

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has launched investigations into the breakdown of MRI and CT scan machines at five major government hospitals in the country. The Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) and Computed Temography (CT) scan machines at the five major government hospitals have all broken down since their installation in 2013, bringing discomfort to patients and medical practitioners ...

BLAISE MATUIDI has arrived in Turin to have a medical with Juventus ahead of an £18.5million move from Paris Saint-Germain. Once his medical has been completed, he is expected to sign a three year contract, keeping him at the club until 2020. Matuidi is currently PSG’s longest serving player having been at the club for six years after he joined ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho reportedly wants Zlatan Ibrahimovic to return to the club as a coach. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is currently continuing his rehabilitation from a serious knee injury with Manchester United, despite being a free agent. The Red Devils chose not to activate the additional year in his contract after he picked up the long-term injury in last season’s ...

A group calling itself Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) which professes association to the National Democratic Congress has condemned recent attacks on former President Jerry Rawlings. Many party people have taken Rawlings to the cleaners and questioned his motives for constantly charging the party and officials of corruption, a move often met with denials by party officials. About a fortnight ago ...

Attend all the schools you can, and obtain all the grades you can, but without an influential father, who is politically connected to place you in the topmost echelon of a state institution, you will end up jobless, poor, wretched and useless. This is the story of Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, who has strategically pushed and placed his two ...

Indian police have arrested four people suspected of leaking an episode of the hugely popular TV show Game of Thrones before it was aired. Three of the accused are current employees of Prime Focus Technology, while one is a former employee. Prime Focus, a Mumbai-based company that stores and processes the series for Indian streaming website Hotstar, had lodged a ...