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Serie A champions Juventus have officially severed the contract of chief executive Giuseppe Marotta after eight years with the Turin giants. The club announced the “termination of the employment contracts” of Marotta, 61, and chief financial officer director Aldo Mazzia, 62. Marotta will receive 361,775 euros ($409,000) in compensation, with Mazzia getting 278,000 euros, as well as 309,000 euros as ...

Mr. Kwame Ntow Fiako, former Division One League Board Chairman, has said “Ghana football will miss” its former head Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi, following a life ban imposed on him by the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA). The Adjudicatory Chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee banned Mr Nyantakyi for life from all football-related activities at both national and international level ...

TRANSFER NEWS LIVE – Express Sport is on hand to bring you all the latest rumours and gossip coming out of the Premier League and more. Transfer news LIVE | Express Sport is on hand to bring you all the latest rumours and gossip Thursday 1 November Manchester United have requested Juventus star Alex Sandro in any potential swap deal ...

TOTTENHAM fans may not be impressed with Mauricio Pochettino’s comments on Arsenal boss Unai Emery. The pair will go head to head twice in December after being drawn against them in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals. They meet in the Premier League on December 2 before the cup match on December 17. But the managers could be set for an unusual ...

The helicopter crash which killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people probably began with a “major failure of the tail rotor”, a senior air investigator said on Wednesday, Metro reports. Tony Cable, a former senior investigator at the Air Accident Investigations Branch, assessed poignant footage of the chopper as it descended from the skies at the King ...

Popular Ghanaian rapper, M.anifest, has described former GFA president, Kwasi Nyantakyi’s lifetime ban by FIFA as not surprising. M.anifest who had the opportunity to watch the Anas expose titled #Number 12, said the level of corruption unearthed in the video gave no less a punishment than a lifetime ban. “We all need redemption but everybody must be responsible for his ...

Former GFA Chairman Sam Brew Butler has cautioned Kwesi Nyantakyi’s successor to take major lessons from his life ban by FIFA. Nyantakyi has been handed a life ban by the football world governing body, FIFA from all football related activities. The decision by FIFA was based on Nyantakyi’s alleged corrupt acts captured in the Number 12 investigative piece by Anas ...

The “Retired Women National Footballers Association of Ghana (RWONFAG), has been inaugurated in Accra. The sole aim of the group, which has been in existence for four years, was to seek the welfare of former female footballers in the country. Madam Anita Wiredu Mintah, Secretary of RWONFAG, who delivered a speech on behalf of Mrs Mercy Tagoe Quarcoo, President of ...

Video assistant referees (VAR) will be used in the CAF Champions League final for the first time on Friday when Al Ahly of Egypt host Esperance of Tunisia in the first leg. The system allows off-field referees to assist match officials regarding goals, penalty and straight red card decisions, and mistaken identity when awarding red and yellow cards. VAR has ...

Ghana skipper Asamoah Gyan scored his first goal of the season as Kayserispor walloped Pazarspor 6-1 in the Turkish Cup on Wednesday. Ghana’s all-time top scorer was making his first start of the campaign and also provided two assists. Gyan’s countryman Bernard Mensah was also on target for Kayserispor, before his goal on the hour mark, the Ghana international provided ...