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Ghana Premier League fans will get a good serving of rapper, Kwesi Arthur, at the Accra Sports Stadium on Wednesday, January 15 during the Week 4 tie involving Legon Cities FC and AshGold. The rapper will perform as part of the half time break and will dish out his most popular songs to the fans who will make it to ...

GHANAsoccernet.com understands that the government has communicated to officials of the Ghana Football Association to appoint a local coach in the FA’s quest to appoint a successor to Kwesi Appia for the senior national football team the Black Stars. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) in a statement released on January 2, 2020, said it had dissolved all the technical teams ...

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has again renewed his bid to acquire English Premier League side Arsenal when he is done with his present projects. Dangote, who was speaking in a chat on David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg, said he intended to take Arsenal to the next level. The billionaire, who is presently constructing a refinery in Lekki, Lagos State, ...

Barcelona have sacked coach Ernesto Valverde and replaced him with former Real Betis coach Quique Setien. Valverde, 55, helped the club to two successive La Liga titles and they lead on goal difference this season. However, the Catalan side have produced a series of unconvincing displays under his leadership and have failed to reach the Champions League final. Setien, 61, ...

Kumasi Asante Kotoko says it accepts the decision by the GFA to ban it from the use of the Baba Yara Stadium. “We accept the FA’s decision. As a club, we do not support fan hooliganism,” PRO of the Club Kennedy Boakye Ansah told Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Tuesday. The ban comes after a supporter was shot in ...

Kumasi Asante Kotoko has been banned from playing its matches at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi by the Ghana Football Association. It comes after a supporter was shot in the eye after fan agitation following a defeat of Kotoko by Berekum Chelsea at Baba Yara Sunday. A statement announcing the ban said: “Article 14 (2) of the GFA ...

Barcelona have been dealt a huge blow in their quest for success this season as Luis Suarez has been ruled out for four months after undergoing knee surgery. The Uruguayan striker could be set to miss the rest of the season after he decided with the club it would be best to go ahead with the operation, after struggling with ...

Spanish club Malaga on Saturday said they had sacked coach Victor Sanchez del Amo after an explicit video showing his semi-naked body was posted on the internet. Sanchez del Amo, a 43-year-old former Real Madrid and Spain winger, had been suspended on Tuesday by the club. However, the club said it had been unable to reach “a friendly separation”. “Malaga ...

The Police Officer who shot rubber bullet into the rampaging crowd after Asante Kotoko was defeated by Berekum Chelsea on Sunday has been interdicted. The bullet hit a Kotoko fan in the eye leading to the permanent damage of the organ. The interdiction is to enable the police commence investigation into the shooting incident. “The injured person is currently on ...

Asante Kotoko’s fine start to the season was halted last Sunday at the Baba Yara Stadium as the Porcupines suffered a 1-0 defeat to Berekum Chelsea in their Ghana Premier League matchday 3 fixture. Kofi Owusu latched on Jeorge Renchi’s pass into the Kotoko box and shot it into the left bottom corner to beat Felix Annan to give the ...