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President of the National Paralympics Committee, Samson Deen, was yesterday elected new head of the Africa Paralympics Committee at the ongoing General Assembly in Rabat, Morocco. He polled 24 of the total votes cast, beating Morocco’s Hamid El Aouni, who polled 15 votes. Deen replaces the outgoing APC boss Leonel da Rocha Pinto, who has been in charge for 13 ...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said victory over Tottenham will not erase the humiliation suffered at the hands of Liverpool but praised his players for the way they bounced back following a difficult week at Old Trafford. Cristiano Ronaldo, Edinson Cavani and Marcus Rashford scored to hand United a 3-0 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium less than a week after ...

A football coach was shot in the shoulder during an Argentine third-tier match on Sunday. Players fled the pitch as Huracan Las Heras fans fought each other while their side faced Ferro de General Pico in the Federal A League. Videos showed both sets of players running for cover as shots were fired across the stadium in Mendoza province. Ferro ...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 400th league goal and won a penalty as AC Milan claimed a narrow victory over Roma in Serie A. Milan’s win moves them level on points with league leaders Napoli. Ibrahimovic, 40, opened the scoring with a free-kick and Franck Kessie converted from the spot after Roma’s Roger Ibanez fouled the Swede. Theo Hernandez was sent ...

Match week one of the 2021/2022 Ghana Premier League season produced seventeen goals and the league took full flight this weekend with some interesting results. Ghana Premier League debutants, Accra Lions played out a 1-1 draw with Elmina Sharks at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday night in the first fixture of the new season. Asante Kotoko pulled out the ...

Nuno Espirito Santo has left his role as Tottenham Hotspur head coach after just four months in charge. The Portuguese boss, who left Premier League rivals Wolves at the end of last season, arrived at the north London club in the summer following a lengthy search to replace Jose Mourinho, who was sacked in April. Despite overseeing three wins in ...

Lionel Messi has insisted that nobody at Barcelona asked him to play for free, and that the club hurt him ahead of his move to PSG this summer. Messi stunned the football world this summer, leaving Barcelona for PSG as the club struggled to balance their books and faced a financial crisis. The Catalan giants could no longer afford Messi’s ...

The Ghana Football Association has officially sent an appeal to world football governing body FIFA, asking that their World Cup qualifier against Ethiopia which has been moved to South Africa (SA), a country in Ghana’s group, is not compromised. The GFA’s letter to FIFA has been necessitated following Ethiopia Football Association request to have their World Cup qualifier against Ghana ...

Mauricio Pochettino is ‘still Manchester United‘s No 1 choice’ to take the manager’s position should they eventually sack Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The United manager has never been under more pressure following their humiliating 5-0 defeat by Liverpool on Sunday. Pochettino has been linked with the job in the past but has been managing Paris Saint-Germain since January. The Daily Star ...

Barcelona have appointed Sergi Barjuan as their interim coach following the sacking of Ronald Koeman. Barjuan, who is currently in charge of the club’s B team, will be introduced to the senior squad on Thursday by club president Joan Laporta. “His interim position as first-team head coach will end as soon as the club has hired a full-time head coach,” ...