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Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah will be accompanied by Ghana Football Association General Secretary Isaac Addo and Executive Committee member Kurt Okraku to meet Fifa officials on Tuesday to look at the way forward after government initiated steps to dissolve the local football governing body. Joy Sports understands that Fifa requested the presence of the GFA officials at the Zurich meeting, ...

Renowned Lawyer and Sports Journalist Moses Foh-Amoaning has described the defense by the former President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi and his attempt to redeem his image as a complete waste of time. According to Mr. Foh-Amoaning, the former CAF vice president needs the help of some senior lawyers to give him good counsel. Nyantakyi in a lengthy ...

Liverpool winger Sadio Mane is one of the best players in the world, says his Senegal coach Aliou Cisse. Senegal will play their first World Cup match since 2002 when 26-year-old Mane and his countrymen take on Poland in Moscow on Tuesday. Cisse captained the 2002 team to the quarter-finals, beating defending champions France in the group phase. “Mane is ...

The chairman of the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) Cudjoe Fianoo has stepped down from the interim committee set up by the government to “oversee the administration of Ghana Football” following recent developments in the beautiful game. The government is in the process of dissolving the Ghana FA as allegations of corruption have been leveled against its president Kwesi Nyantakyi ...

Receipts covering the air fare and hotel bills of former Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi have been released by the Tiger Eye PI team as the football capo denies receiving a bribe of $65, 000 in the undercover sting operation. The former vice president of CAF allegedly took $65,000 from a potential investor to entice him to persuade government officials ...

Controversial sports journalist Patrick Osei Agyemang alias Countryman Songo made a return to his popular television show ‘Fire for Fire’ Monday afternoon after months off the television screens in Ghana. The three-time Radio and Television Personality (RTP) ‘Best TV sports show host of the year’, appeared onscreen Monday donning a white Fire for Fire branded long sleeve shirt and appeared ...

Ebusua Dwarfs Chief Executive Edward Nana Aidoo has passed away in the United States of America. The highly- respected football administrator gave up the ghost after battling an illness for close to a year. News of his unfortunate demise has spread like wildfire, throwing Ghana football into a state of shock and sadness. Nana Aidoo has been the club’s major ...

Russia got their World Cup campaign off to a dream start with a 5-0 thumping of Saudi Arabia but face an entirely different beast in the form of Egypt, who should be revitalised by the return of their talismanic striker Mohamed Salah. The hosts face the north Africans in St Petersburg on Tuesday and defeat would almost certainly condemn Egypt ...

Embattled former head of the defunct Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has defended himself against allegations of corruption following the “Number 12” revelation by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and vowed to take legal action against the Tiger eye PI team and Anas. In a press statement in reaction to the investigative report by Anas and his Tiger eye PI team ...

MANCHESTER UNITED’s transfer plans are under threat from Juventus as the Italian giants join the race to sign Sergej Milinkovic-Savic. Manchester United are understood to be interested in Lazio midfielder Milinkovic-Savic, who is available for £87.5m (€100m). Lazio would prefer to keep their star midfielder but know cashing in on his now would generate a huge cash injection. A deal ...