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The Red Devils legend recalls being in awe of the Brazilian ahead of their Champions League quarter-final showdown Andy Cole has admitted that he was left so starstruck lining up next to Ronaldo in the tunnel before Manchester United’s clash with Inter in 1999 that he almost wet himself. Cole enjoyed a hugely successful spell at Old Trafford between 1995 ...

Renowned Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has revealed that she once had a crush on Michael Essien after the Ghanaian team defeated the United States at the 2006 World Cup tournament in Germany. She made the revelation in the introduction she wrote for a picture book, Africa? The Future of Football, authored by a photographer, Pall Stefansson. According to her, because ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has taken a swipe at Ghanaian sports journalists for promoting European football and has attributed the decline of Ghana football to sports journalists in the country. According to him, the Ghana topflight league could have been better off if sports journalist had devoted much time for the local games. “Instead of ...

Former Kotoko Coach J.E Sarpong has applauded the Asantehene for banning player transfer at Kotoko insisting it will bring the best out of coach Maxwell Konadu. Otumfour Osei Tutu who is the owner and life patron of the club has instructed the new board not to sign new players for a year, a decision the former coach of the club ...

Ghana defender Jerry Akaminko has opined that the decision to name a new captain ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) led to Ghana’s early exit from the tournament. The then-head coach of the side, Kwesi Appiah with less than a month for the start of the tournament in Egypt named Andre Ayew as the new skipper for ...

Footballers across the globe usually acquire names aside from the once they were born with and within the course of their career and Ghanaian players are no exception. They either adopt the nicknames of their idol players or fans name their favorite footballers after things they can situate with or legendary players whom they have similar style of play with. ...

Lutz Pfannenstiel, who worked with the highly-rated coach at Hoffenheim, has hailed the 32-year-old’s qualities and compared him to Man City’s boss Julian Nagelsmann is the “most exciting coaching talent in Europe”, according to Lutz Pfannenstiel, with the RB Leipzig boss considered to be more tactically adept than Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. At 32 years of age, a meteoric ...

The Bayer Leverkusen playmaker appears set to have his pick of Europe’s top clubs, with Stamford Bridge billed as a potentially perfect landing spot Kai Havertz has been advised by Dietmar Hamann that Chelsea would be the obvious transfer option for him if he faced a choice between the Blues and Manchester United. The Bayer Leverkusen starlet has emerged as ...

Black Stars coach Charles Kwablan Akonnor says Ghana lost to South Africa in the semi final of the Nations Cup in 96 because they were morally deflated. According to Akonnor, the Black Stars were demoralized after seeing the South African’s prematch ‘jama’. The Bafana Bafana were on top of their voices singing and drumming, leaving the Black Stars crestfallen. South ...

A member of the Parliamentary Committee for Sports has warned that football risk collapsing if the government does not come to the aid of the struggling industry. The stocks of Ghana football has for the last three years plummeted to its lowest ebb with the sector battling two major crisis in the period. Just when the leadership of Kurt Okraku ...