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Ghana’s Ministry of Youth and Sports , have rewarded Dr Kwamena Oboe Quansah, team Doctor of the Black Stars Squad that won the AFCON trophy in 1965 with a cheque for GHC30, 000.00. Mr Quansah was believed to have been left out when the State rewarded the team for that AFCON triumph during former President John Mahama reign. President John ...

Javier Aguirre, Head Coach of Egypt’s football team, has announced his final 23-man squad for 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), on home soil with star player and Liverpool player Mohamed Salah, as the lead player. The Mexican tactician axed Smouha duo, left-back Ahmed Aboulfotouh and goalkeeper Mohamed Abou-Gabal from his 25-man preliminary squad. His list includes the reigning Africa ...

Black Stars and US Sassuolo midfielder Joseph Alfred Duncan on Saturday, June 8, 2019, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Labadi, Accra joined the list of married footballers as he wedded his longtime girlfriend, Rosa in a low-key wedding attended by few family members and friends. Present at the wedding were colleague footballers, Aziz Tetteh, David Appiah, Ashong Northey and ...

Asante Kotoko supporter Seidu Mba is in the custody of Police over the kidnappings of two Canadian girls in the Ashanti Region, according to reports. The staunch Kotoko fan is believed to be the mastermind behind the kidnappings of the girls who went missing for sometime now. A Police statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning revealed the girls ...

A report from Egyptian publication, Kingfut has it that Group E team, Mali, may be kicked out of the Africa Cup of Nations which is due to kickoff in 10 days time. The report has it that FIFA was set to place a suspension on the Mali Football Federation. Mali are set in group E in the 2019 AFCON alongside ...

Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the world’s highest paid athlete, earning $127m in the past 12 months, according to the Forbes top 100 rankings. Juventus’s Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo is second on $109m, with Paris St-Germain’s Brazil forward Neymar in third on $105m. Last year’s highest earner, boxer Floyd Mayweather, has dropped off the list. Serena Williams is ...

Burundi coach Olivier Niyungeko has announced his final team list for the African Cup of Nations 2019 which is scheduled to kick off in Egypt on June 21. Burundi have made history after reaching their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations finals finishing ahead of South Sudan and Gabon in the qualifiers’ Group C to qualify along with Mali who lead ...

The United States made history on Tuesday night after their emphatic 13-0 win over Thailand in their opening match at the Women’s World Cup campaign in France. The 13-0 scoreline is the largest margin of victory in the history of the FIFA World Cup (men’s and women’s). The holders and three-time champions left a series of records in their wake, ...

The former Senegal international has returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne as part of the Reds’ coaching crew Belgian side Standard Liege have announced Mbaye Leye as one of the club’s assistant coaches. The 36-year-old featured for the Reds between 2010 and 2012 where he scored eight goals in 48 league appearances. After departing the Reds in 2012, he returned ...

African football legend Roger Milla believes Cameroon have a relatively easy good in the 32nd edition of the AFCON. The Indomitable Lions have been pitted alongside Ghana, Benin and Guinea-Bissau. However, the former African Footballer of the Year in 1976 and 1990 who helped the Indomitable Lions to win their first AFCON title in 1984 maintains that coach Clarence Seedorf ...