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Black Stars coach, James Kwesi Appiah, has dumped his entire technical, including his assistant, Ibrahim Tanko, ahead of Ghana’s AFCON 2021 qualifying doubleheader against South Africa and Sudan in November. Tanko, who is currently preparing the Black Meteors to the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt in November, is to be replaced by Charles Kwablan (C.K.) Akonnor of Asante ...

The forward’s status remains day-to-day after suffering an injury against Villarreal on Tuesday Barcelona have issued an update on the status of the injured Lionel Messi, who will remain day-to-day after picking up a knock against Villarreal. Messi was taken off at half-time of that meeting with Villarreal due to a groin injury, ending his first start of the season, ...

Arsene Wenger tells Man Utd they need to sign four players to sort out Solskjaer mess Arsene Wenger believes Manchester United still have plenty of work to do in the transfer market if they’re to seriously compete again with the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City. The Frenchman was watching on as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side were held to a ...

Manchester United are struggling this season under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has held talks with the Glazers about making ‘cultural’ changes at the club. United have had a mixed start to the 2019/20 season, winning twice, losing twice and drawing the other two games in the Premier League – and needing penalties against Rochdale in the ...

Head of Sports for the EIB Network Henry Asante Twum has been appointed commentator for the 2019 WAFU Cup of Nations in Thies, Senegal. The experienced broadcaster together with GBC’s Benjamin Willie Graham will be the voice and face of the tournament in the West African Nation. The 2019 WAFU Cup of Nations is scheduled from Saturday 28th September to ...

The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has written to Fifa for an explanation of its missing votes for the Best Fifa Men’s Player award. The EFA says that both Pharaohs’ coach Shawky Gharib and captain Ahmed Elmohamady placed votes for Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah that were not counted. Neither are included on the voting breakdown on Fifa’s website. Since the awards ceremony ...

Sudan national team head coach Zdravko Logarušić has said that FIFA changed his votes in the Best awards ceremony on Monday. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the Best FIFA Men’s Player award after collecting 46 points. Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane ended up in fourth and fifth place in the rankings with 26 and 23 points respectively. Croatian manager Zdravko Logarušić ...

A Japanese comedy duo have apologised after they reportedly said Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka “needed some bleach” during a live event. Japanese Osaka, 21, won her first Pan Pacific Open title in her hometown Osaka on Sunday – her first trophy since January’s Melbourne win. The duo, known as ‘A Masso’, also reportedly said “she is too sunburned”. Their ...

Former Super Eagles player, Samson Siasia, needs N36m to appeal the life ban sanction imposed on him by FIFA over alleged match-fixing. Siasia, who made this known on Wednesday, said failure to secure the money would affect his appeal of the life ban. According to him, inability to get the money before October 10 would mean that he can no ...

League Two Colchester United produced a huge upset as they beat Premier League Tottenham on penalties to reach the Carabao Cup fourth round. The Essex side – the lowest-ranked team in the third round – frustrated last year’s semi-finalists throughout the 90 minutes and won a dramatic shootout after Christian Eriksen and Erik Lamela missed from the spot. After Eriksen’s ...