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Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men’s player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards. The 35-year-old beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize. Messi captained Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar, and scored 27 goals in 49 games for club and country in 2021-22. Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas was ...

Director of Becky’s Orphanage Home Seth Asiedu expressed his sorrow over the passing of Christian Atsu, whom he referred to as the “pillar of support” for the orphanage. Atsu, a former player for the Black Stars, had been involved with the orphanage since 2016, providing assistance to uplift the spirits of the orphans. Atsu’s efforts included the construction of a ...

Chief Executive Officer of Christian Atsu’s Youth club, Cheetah FC, Hayye Yartey has revealed that Christian Atsu offered his full maiden salary which he received at FC Porto to a church in Ghana. Following the 31-year-old’s untimely death, much has been said about his charitable acts, which included donating to orphans and bailing out minor offenders. Hayye Yartey, who facilitated ...

Barcelona’s Joan Laporta says he will not give La Liga chief executive Javier Tebas “what he’d like by stepping down” as president of the club. On Monday, Tebas said Laporta should resign if he was unable to explain payments Barcelona made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of Spain’s referees’ committee. “That is for the club’s members to ...

Newcastle supporters have launched fundraising in memory of the late Christian Atsu, with the goal of completing the former winger’s plan to construct a new school in Ghana. The 31-year-old former winger of Newcastle and Chelsea was declared dead under the wreckage of the horrific earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. Tributes from his former teams have been pouring in. ...

The one-week observation in memory of departed Ghana international, Christian Atsu, has been scheduled for Saturday, March 4. The decision resulted from talks among Atsu’s family, the Ghana Football Association (GFA), and the Sports Ministry at the player’s family home. Evans Bobie, the Deputy Minister of Sports, led the GFA and Sports Ministry representatives in offering their condolences to the grieving ...

The body of Hatayspor sporting director Taner Savut was recovered on Tuesday, more than two weeks after the Turkey-Syria earthquakes. He had been missing since 6 February and was found close to where the body of Hatayspor midfielder Christian Atsu was discovered last week. “We feel the deep sorrow of losing our sporting director Taner Savut,” the Turkish top-flight club tweeted. ...

Fans have contributed massively to help complete a school building project started by Christian Atsu in his home country, Ghana Just as with his many other charitable moves, the 31-year-old who passed away following the devastating earthquake in Turkey had earlier started a project to fund for the building of a school in Senya Beraku, a town in Ghana to ...

Manchester United’s share price dropped over nine per cent on Tuesday amid fears the Glazer family won’t sell the club after all. Shares valued at $25.55 [£21.08] on the New York Stock Exchange at the opening of Tuesday’s trading had slumped to $24.27 [£20.02] within 30 minutes. A slight rebound was followed by another fall to $24.10 [£19.88] approaching 11am ...

Broadcaster and fashion icon, Kofi Okyere Darko, popularly known as KOD, has reacted to Ghanaian player Mohammed Kudus’ tribute to Christian Atsu after scoring late in Ajax’s 4-0 win over Sparta Rotterdam in the Eredivisie. Kudus, who was part of Ghana’s senior squad in 2019 at the same time as Atsu, scored from a free kick in the 84th minute ...