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The Barcelona superstar got one over on his Portuguese foe on Monday night and is now looking to chase down collective honours with his club Lionel Messi beat Cristiano Ronaldo to the FIFA Best award for 2019 and admits neither he nor an eternal rival “like losing”, but the Argentine insists their ongoing battle remains purely professional. Barcelona’s talismanic skipper ...

On Monday night, Lionel Messi and Megan Rapinoe were crowned the Best Men’s and Women’s Players respectively for their achievements in 2018. They held off competition from the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Alex Morgan to pick up their awards. As it is the norm, captains, coaches and selected media men and women from all of FIFA’s member countries, including ...

GFA Presidential hopeful, George Ankoma Mensah Esq. says he is the “Joseph” of Ghana Football, sent to reclaim the sport to its rightful place. According to the experienced lawyer, a revolution is about to storm Ghana football and no one can stop it. Sounding biblical on Sports World on YFM, Lawyer Ankoma likened himself to Joseph in the bible, telling ...

Amanda Clinton has launched a blistering attack on Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe claiming that the Hearts of Oak senior board member’s press statement that the club did not endorse her to contest the Ghana FA Presidential election is ‘fake news’. Clinton, who is the only female aspirant in the GFA presidential race, says the public must disregard the statement of the ...

The Vetting Committee for the upcoming GFA elections has been duly inaugurated and will commence work from September 26- October 1. Members of the Committee were sworn in after a meeting which was held at the GFA Secretariat on Thursday, September 19. Read Also: Seven file to contest for Ghana FA president The chairman of the Committee is lawyer Mr ...

Algeria’s Djamel Belmadi got 10 votes from African national team captains, in his bid to win the 2019 FIFA Best Men’s Coach Award. The awards are based on performances from July 16, 2018, to July 19, 2019, and were voted for by fans, national coaches of FIFA Member Associations, their team captains as well as a select group of football ...

African football giants Cameroon and Egypt were part of the nations that parted ways with their national team coaches following disappointing campaigns at the 2019 African Cup of Nations. The other countries whose coaches were either sacked, poached or forced to resign include Zimbabwe, Morocco, Guinea, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda. READ MORE: Coaching casualties after 2019 AFCON Since July, when eventual winners, ...

Ghana Football Association (GFA) Presidential aspirant Kurt. E.S. Okraku is set to launch his manifesto today, September 24 in his bid to succeed beleaguered Kwesi Nyantakyi. The event which takes place at the Auditorium of the Ghana Exim Bank in Accra at 10:00 am will be grace by several top footballs and sports personalities. The GFA Presidential aspirant has taken ...

Ghana football’s normalisation process will reach a new phase on Wednesday when the supervising Normalisation Committee begins a review exercise on nominees vying for the various openings in a new Ghana Football Association (GFA). The supposed ‘Integrity Test’ has become the new crucial point for some big egos in the race for the big posts that define the GFA structure. ...

A former Captain of the Ghana Black Stars, Stephen Appiah, has called for better management and grooming of young players from the junior teams in the country to feed the senior national team. In his opinion, Ghana needs to adopt a system where the Black Starlets (Under-17) can be developed to form the backbone of the next generation of the ...