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President Nana-Akufo Addo has congratulated the three National teams that recorded victories over the weekend. The Maidens made it to the next round of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup after beating Finland 3-1. Black Queens on other hand defeated their Algerian counterparts in the opening match of the Women’s Cup of Nations tournament on Saturday with the Black Stars ...

Collated Africa Cup of Nations matchday 5 qualifying results on Sunday: Group A At Antananarivo Madagascar 1 (Andriamatsinoro 76) Sudan 3 (Idris 2, Adam 69, Muzamil 85) Played Saturday At Bata, Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 0 Senegal 1 (Meseguer 52-og) Standings (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points) Senegal 5 4 1 0 10 2 13 – qualified ...

Former champions Zambia were eliminated from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying competition after a 1-0 away loss to Mozambique in Group K Sunday. Albania-based Reginaldo Faife kept Mozambican hopes alive of a top-two finish and a place at the finals in Cameroon by scoring the only goal after 63 minutes in Maputo. Guinea-Bissau and Namibia have eight points ...

Manchester City have signed budding English-born Ghanaian teenager Darko Gyabi from Millwall. According to English Tabloid the Sun, Wolves and Arsenal were also interested in signing the 14-year-old midfielder but he chose City as he is impressed with their all-round attacking game. The English champions are paying an initial £300,000 as signing on fee but it could rise up to ...

Kenya’s Football Federation (FKF) has failed in its bid to be reinstated to the 2018 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (2018 AWCON) after losing its appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Kenya had filed an appeal to CAS after they were excluded from Ghana 2018 following a successful appeal by Equatorial Guinea. On October 18, Equatorial Guinea ...

Former France international Franck Ribery on Thursday issued a public apology to French television pundit Patrick Guillou, who he reportedly insulted and assaulted following Bayern Munich’s away defeat to Borussia Dortmund at the weekend. “I had a meeting with Patrick Guillou yesterday in Munich,” Ribery said in a video posted on Bayern’s website in German. “We spoke for a long ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho was spotted at Belgium’s UEFA Nations League showdown with Iceland on Thursday night. United have endured a lacklustre start to the season which has left them a disappointing eighth in the Premier League standings. Last weekend’s 3-1 derby defeat to rivals Manchester City compounded the difference in quality between the two sides. Jose Mourinho started ...

Ghana’s Black Maidens’ deputy captain, Millot Abena Pokuaa and her colleagues are poised to secure qualification to the next round of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup if only they get another resounding win against Finland. Ghana have a chance to progress to the quarterfinals of the world cup after their impressive 5:0 win over host nation Uruguay on ...

The Black Stars of Ghana will fly out to Addis Ababa later today ahead of Sunday’s 2019 AFCON qualifier against Ethiopia. Ghana are currently 3rd in Group F of qualifying after losing to Kenya in September, while their game against Sierra Leone was cancelled. Kwesi Appiah and his 19-man squad are expected to leave Kenya later today in order to ...

The Black Stars of Ghana have begun training ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia on Sunday. The senior national team players started arriving on Tuesday with training beginning on Wednesday in Kenya. The team had originally planned to kick start preparations on Tuesday, but with only ten players arriving, the team’s plans had to be changed. ...