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Reigning European champions Real Madrid will play neighbours Atletico Madrid in the Champions League semifinals. Eleven-time European champions Real, who eliminated Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals, could become the first club in the Champions League era to win the competition in successive seasons. The Madrid clubs have met in the Champions League final in two of the last three years, ...

German police on Friday arrested the suspected perpetrator of a bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund’s team bus, the public prosecutor’s office said, indicating his motive was financial and not terror-related. Police commandos working on behalf of the federal prosecutor’s office “have arrested a 28-year-old German-Russian national, Sergej W.,” a statement said. It said the suspect was hoping to profit from ...

British Olympic high jump silver medalist Germaine Mason has been killed in a Jamaica motorcycle accident, according to reports. Mason, a Jamaican-born athlete who represented Great Britain in 2006 and won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was at the helm of a bike convoy on the Palisadoes main road in Kingston, when he lost control of his bike, reports ...

Ugo Ehiogu passed away in the early hours of Friday morning, after suffering a cardiac arrest the previous evening. The Tottenham Hotspur under-23 coach was rushed to hospital from the club’s training centre on Thursday. Ugo Ehiogu had been at Spurs since 2014, but the England international was probably most synonymous with Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, where he played for ...

If there was one imperative for Manchester United heading into the 2016-17 season, it was Champions League qualification. A Premier League title wasn’t a realistic expectation. One of two domestic cups would have been (and was) nice, but either a top-four finish or a Europa League title was necessary to kick-start the Jose Mourinho era and get United back into ...

Kwesi Appiah will arrive in the country today to start work as Black Stars coach. The ex-Ghana captain will fly into the country from the United Kingdom where he went to visit his family. Appiah, a former Al Khartoum SC coach, has agreed a two-year contract on his re-appointment. He was named named last month after beating Hugo Broos and ...

The 2016 Ghana Basketball Awards ended successfully at the Best Western Premier Hotel in Accra with the audience thrilled with the spectacular organization of the ceremony. Rewarding excellence in Basketball in the year 2016 under review, saw some High School students, Tertiary Students and officials honored for their contributions to Ghana Basketball in Ghana. The program begun with a cocktail ...

DANA POINT, Calif. – The David Beckham ownership saga in Miami has dragged on so long that the thousand-day anniversary of the Feb. 5, 2014 announcement of Major League Soccer’s return to South Florida was celebrated last Halloween. OK, the milestone was mocked, but deservedly so. After nearly six more months of feet=dragging, MLS owners are now getting involved. On ...

Born from a humble family in Accra Ghana and made his big breakthrough in soccer for Ghana and Africa, Kwame Ayew has won many hearts of football lovers and has since used sports as a tool to transform the lives of many. “My vision was to become a medical doctor” he said. “Two gentlemen came to me with a proposal ...

Egyptian giants Zamalek have been ordered by world football governing body, FIFA, to pay their former Ghanaian striker Junior Agogo $450,000 over his long-standing unpaid wages. The Cairo-based club has not paid all the 807,000 Euros owed the former Black Stars player after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. This forced FIFA to rule on Wednesday, requesting ...