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Former Marseille Ghana and Olympic Marseille midfielder, Abedi Pele Ayew, has extolled late Chairman of the French top division, Pape Diouf who died this week from coronavirus. Diouf was the first victim of the disease in Senegal. Diouf was not only the first black top-flight chairman in elite European football but before that an agent and journalist. One of the ...

Ghana’s committed and reliable playmaker Christian Atsu has served notice of his decision to quit the Black Stars citing neglect over the injury that ultimately cost him his starting place at Newcastle United, GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively report. The patriotic player, who has consistently served Ghana with diligence over for more than seven years, has told Black Stars coach Charles Akonnor ...

Manchester United have signed some great players, but they have missed out on some even greater ones, writes Sky Sports News’ Kaveh Solhekol. If they had bought every player on this list, they would probably have won the title and the Champions League every year, and that’s not an over exaggeration. These are the 50 best players that got away – and ...

Jerome Boateng has been involved in a car accident in Germany. Fortunately, the Bayern Munich defender emerged unscathed after losing control of his vehicle and crashing into a protective barrier alongside the A9 motorway. Boateng was travelling to visit his son, with Germany not having introduced restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus. TVO estimate that 25,000 euros worth of ...

UEFA has confirmed its club competitions remain suspended until further notice, while all of June’s international matches have been postponed. European football’s governing body announced the news on Wednesday following a meeting with its 55 member associations to discuss strategy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The postponement of international fixtures includes Euro 2020 play-offs involving Northern Ireland, the ...

The Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) Professor Stephen Manteaw has kicked against plans by the government to use part of the Heritage Funds to fight the coronavirus. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, on March 30, requested Parliament to amend the Petroleum Revenue Management Act(APRM), ( Act 815 ), to allow government access the funds for combatting the ...

Ghana captain Andre Ayew has paid tributes to former Marseille President Pape Diouf, who died on Tuesday night in Senegal. Pape Diouf died after suffering from the coronavirus. He was 68. Ayew took to Twitter to expressed his grief after hearing of the death of one of Africa’s leading football executive. “MON PAPA, GRAND PERE, MON MENTOR, RIP PAPE DIOUF,” ...

The man who believes that he beat Tyson Fury now works on the railways, fixing overhead cables. He watches Fury from afar with interest but rarely tells his mates about the day he flustered the world heavyweight champion. As he now says: “What’s the point?” John McDermott will forever be a small footnote in history because of the controversial points ...

Chairman Daniel Levy is one of 550 non-playing staff at Tottenham taking a pay cut to “protect jobs” amid the coronavirus crisis. Spurs have also followed Newcastle in furloughing – a scheme in which an employee does not work but gets 80 per cent of their salary paid for the next two months by the government – some staff “where ...

Football is suspended in the UK and across most of world because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic – but the game rolls on in Belarus. The Belarusian Premier League rarely gets a mention in normal circumstances yet it is attracting attention from foreign fans as one of the few places around the globe – and the only place in Europe ...