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Former Ghana FA vice-president George Afriyie has claimed he told his former boss Kwesi Nyantakyi to step down in order to keep his legacy intact following his spectacular fall from grace to grass. The longest-serving FA capo has been slapped with a FIFA lifetime ban after being found guilty of corruption, conflict of interest and commission charges. Afriyie, who is ...

Cristiano Ronaldo is in hot form and gunning for revenge going into Tuesday’s Champions League clash against Valencia after seeing red against the Spaniards in the away leg, with Juventus needing a draw in Turin to book their ticket to the knockout rounds of the European competition. “Happy to have helped the team on another important win,” the 33-year-old wrote ...

Controversial football administrator, Kojo Yankah says the Ghana Football Association Normalization Committee must blame for Black Queens and Black Maidens failure. The Black Maiden who were hoping to book their place in the semi-finals of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay lost Mexico on Sunday in a penalty shootout. However, Cameroon also halted the Black Queens aim ...

Chelsea legend Michael Essien says he will turn to Jose Mourinho for coaching advice as he considers a managerial career. The 36-year-old is yet to call time on his illustrious career despite staying without football for more than a year. The Ghana international has not played competitive football since he left Indonesian side Persib Bandung. And the former Real Madrid ...

Sports broadcaster, Patrick Osei Agyemang, better known as Countryman Songo, has called on Ghanaians to support Black Stars’ captain, Asamoah Gyan. According to a report by hotfmonlinegh.com, Songo argued that per World Cup statistics, Gyan is better than Argentine forward, Lionel Messi. He explained that though both have scored six goals at the World Cup, Gyan needed three tournaments to ...

Sunday’s rescheduled Copa Libertadores final second leg between Boca Juniors and River Plate has been postponed. Violence had forced the match between the bitter Argentine rivals to first be delayed on Saturday. The Boca Juniors team bus was attacked by River Plate fans on its way to the game at River’s Estadio Monumental. The game was rearranged for Sunday at ...

Evans Adotey, Head Coach of Ghana’s Black Maidens has opened up about his disappointment at his team’s exit from the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay. Ghana suffered a gut-wrenching penalty shootout loss at the hands of Mexico in the quarter final stage on Sunday night, despite taking the lead twice in regulation time. Captain and star forward ...

Ghana’s Black Maidens suffered a heartbreaking exit at the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup after a penalty shootout loss to Mexico despite taking the lead twice in regulation time. The Maidens, who enjoyed a stellar group stage performance, scoring 10 goals in three games, were looking to better their 3rd place record they set back in the 2012 edition ...

The Swiss city of Zurich is finally set to get a purpose-built football stadium after voters gave the green light to the project in a local referendum on Sunday. The Zurich city government said that 54 percent of voters were in favour of building an 18,000-capacity stadium. It will be built on the site of the old Hardturm ground which ...

Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante has signed a new five-year contract at Stamford Bridge, the Premier League club announced on Friday. The France international, signed from Leicester in the summer of 2016, has been ever-present in the league for Maurizio Sarri’s side this season. Chelsea are third in the table, four points behind leaders Manchester City. “N’Golo Kante has today extended ...