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Asante Kotoko has touched down in Addis Ababa as they embark on their journey to Sudan ahead of their CAF Champions League second leg game against Al Hilal. The team left the shores of Ghana on Sunday, January 3, 2021, via Ethiopia Airlines. The team arrived in Addis Ababa on Sunday night where they spent the night and will continue their ...

Legon Cities FC ‘macho men’ are reported to have fired gunshots at Liberty Professionals on Sunday where they lost 1-0. According to multiple reports, the macho men fired the shots in protest to what they describe as poor officiating. The incident happened after the final whistle when the ‘thugs’ removed the rifles from the Hummer vehicle and started firing in ...

Amad Diallo shared a photo of his flight to Rome on Sunday as the Atalanta teenager prepared to officially become a Manchester United player. Diallo, 18, agreed to a move to Old Trafford worth up to £37 million ($48m) over the summer. But the clubs agreed to keep the youngster in Italian football until he was granted a work permit ...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice and created another goal as Juventus thrashed Udinese in Serie A. Ronaldo opened the scoring with a trademark drive, after Aaron Ramsey’s pass, before threading a through ball for Federico Chiesa to score. Ronaldo’s second goal took his tally this season to 14 from only 11 league games. Marvin Zeegelaar scored a stoppage-time consolation for Udinese ...

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has fixed the outstanding league match between Great Olympics and Ebusua Dwarfs on Thursday, December 24. The match fixed for the Accra Sports Stadium was originally fixed for December 27 but had to be rescheduled to Thursday, due to the unavailability of the Accra Stadium of the venue. However, the Medeama would host Asante Kotoko in their Week four ...

Former Hearts of Oak captain, Yaw Amankwah Mireku says local players have more respect for white coaches than black coaches. According to him, oftentimes, when white coaches take over local clubs, players put up impressive performances in a bid to impress the coach. The player was referencing the seeming turnaround of Hearts of Oak season since the appointment of Kosta ...

Ghana’s Black Satellites needed a penalty shootout victory over Niger to reach the 2021 U-20 AFCON finals. Prestige FC’s Frank Boateng converted the decisive kick that won the day for the former World U-20 champions. Coach Karim Zito’s team failed to take their chances in the first half as Precious Boah, Abdul Mugeez and Matthew Anim Cudjoe all missed glaring ...

The Tottenham manager is not buying that a Premier League title rival is in trouble after suffering a run of unfortunate fitness setbacks Jose Mourinho has started to fan the flames ahead of Tottenham’s crunch clash with Liverpool at Anfield, with the Portuguese rubbishing claims that the Reds are suffering an injury crisis. For the Spurs boss, his opposite number, ...

Asante Kotoko has officially written to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to notify the Association of their decision to maintain Accra Sports Stadium as their home ground in the CAF Champions League. The move is a swift turnaround after the Porcupine wrote to the FA of their willingness to rather use the Tamale stadium as their adopted home ground. Kotoko ...

Petr Cech’s return to playing action with Chelsea did not work out as he would have hoped as he conceded two goals in a 3-2 win over Tottenham in Premier League 2 action. The Blues great retired from the professional ranks in 2019, following a couple of seasons at Arsenal, but returned to the Chelsea coaching staff later that year. ...