Thirty six people successfully filed their nominations to contest the 12 positions in the Ghana Olympic Committee as nominations closed last Tuesday for the March 15, general election.
Apart from eight people filing to contest for the …
The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), has described as irresponsible and barbaric, the attacks on journalists at some league centres in recent times.
A statement from the secretariat of the Association, said the latest attack …
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain wants to join the exodus of players planning to leave Arsenal this summer with sources telling ESPN FC that the England midfielder is now determined to reignite his career away from the Emirates Stadium.
The 23-y…
Junior High School pupils of the Koforidua Methodist Schools defeated their male teachers, 5-4 on penalties, to win the Methodist Education week football game at the Koforidua Methodist School park.
The match ended four all in regulat…
Barcelona pulled off the greatest comeback in Champions League history beating Paris Saint-Germain 6-1 to win their round-of-16 tie 6-5 on aggregate on Wednesday night, and match-winner Sergi Roberto admitted he wasn't sure if his decisive…
They are Chelsea, but not as Jose Mourinho knows them. The blue shirts are familiar, along with many of the faces. The sense of success is one he recognises all too well from his time in West London. Yet when he returns to Stamford Bridge …
Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti says Barcelona players thought their hopes of qualifying had gone when Edinson Cavani scored an away goal during Wednesday's Champions League comeback.
Barca's ambitions of pulling off the u…
Arsene Wenger says he will consider the view of Arsenal supporters when he decides whether to remain at the club but insisted it is "not the most important factor."
Wenger has come under increasing pressure following Tuesday's 5-1 home …
Paris Saint-Germain manager Unai Emery admitted his team "lost everything" after referee decisions went against them as they let slip a 4-0 first-leg lead over Barcelona in a 6-1 second-leg capitulation at the Camp Nou in the Champions Lea…
Ghana and Al Ahli star Asamoah Gyan has has vowed that persistent injury problems will not get the better of him. Gyan, 31, has started just six of the champions’ 14 Arabian Gulf League games he was eligible for in 2016/17.
This has con…
I was in this stadium, the Camp Nou, doing this same job when Manchester United somehow scored two goals in three added time minutes to win the 1999 Champions League final and complete a trophy treble. And it was so extraordinary I didn't …
Ghanaian international, Raphael Dwamena, scored the only goal in FC Zurich 1-0 win over Chiasso in the Swiss Challenge League last Sunday.
Dwamena scored the only goal of the game on the 40th minute before being substituted in the …
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has accepted a charge of violent conduct and will serve a three-match ban, the English Football Association (FA) has announced.
Ibrahimovic, 35, caught Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings with …
Just after Bayern Munich's fourth goal went in at the Emirates, a small pocket of Arsenal supporters began to chant, "There's only one Arsene Wenger."
With a small but vocal group of fans marching from Highbury to the Emirates prior to …
Carlo Ancelotti admitted Lauren Koscielny's sending off turned the game decisively in his side's favour as Bayern Munich stormed back from a goal deficit to seal another thumping 5-1 win over Arsenal in their Champions League round-of-16 s…
Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos said he was "not a hero" but just "doing his job" after two more of his characteristic flying headers helped his side to a round-of-16, second-leg win at Napoli, sending them through 6-2 on aggregate to the…
Arsene Wenger blasted referee Tasos Sidiropoulos for what he called an "inexplainable and scandalous" performance in Arsenal's 5-1 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Arsenal led 1-0 at the Emirates when the Greek …
Chelsea star Eden Hazard has said midfielder N'Golo Kante covers so much ground that he sometimes feels he is seeing him twice.
Kante, signed from Premier League champions Leicester in the summer, made the interception that led to Hazar…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has accepted a three-match ban for violent conduct for elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings during Saturday's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
The Manchester United striker will miss Monday's FA Cup quarter-final at Chelsea a…
Torino chairman Urbano Cairo regrets not putting a higher release clause in the contract of Andrea Belotti after his seven-minute hat trick took him to the top of the Serie A scoring charts on Sunday.
The €100 million clause -- inserted…
Wales forward Gareth Bale believes that the Premier League schedule allows the rest of Europe to have an edge over them in continental competitions.
The former Tottenham Hotspur attacker joined Real Madrid in 2013 for a world record fee…
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings have been charged with alleged violent conduct by the Football Association following separate incidents during the Premier League game between Manchester Un…
Antonio Conte praised Chelsea for denying their rivals hope in the Premier League title race after watching his team convincingly beat West Ham 2-1 at the London Stadium to restore their 10-point lead at the top of the table.
Goals in e…
Eden Hazard and Diego Costa were on target as clinical Chelsea swatted aside West Ham 2-1 to take a 10-point lead at the top of the Premier League.
Two of Chelsea's three Premier League defeats this season were away London derbies -- to…
Africa Cup of Nations-winning Cameroon defender Nicolas Nkoulou is taking a break from international football.
The 26-year-old scored in the Nations Cup final with a powerful header, helping his side to beat Egypt 2-1.
Nkoulou has ma…
Two first half goals scored by league leaders Aduana Stars were all that they needed to beat visiting Accra Hearts of Oak in their titanic encounter at the Osagyefo Agyeman Badu Park at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
The homesters combined brilliantly…
Frank Lampard says Paul Pogba has yet to live up to the world-record fee that Manchester United paid for him last summer, and suggested that the midfielder could become a "£90 million problem" at Old Trafford.
United paid about £89.3m t…
Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s Player of the Month, Emmanuel Gyamfi, scored a crucial goal during time added on, to give his side a sweet 1-0 victory over premiership newcomers, Elimina Sharks, in the fifth week fixture at the Baba Yara Stadium in…
New York City FC midfielder Jack Harrison says he would recommend other young English players try their luck in the United States, as he did when he left Manchester United's academy six years ago.
"It's not easy to leave your family and…
Arsene Wenger has warned younger managers that they have to live like "a football priest" and "sacrifice your life" in order to cope with the high demands of the job.
The 67-year-old Wenger has insisted he has no plans of retiring any t…
Michael Carrick would probably hang up his boots if his Manchester United contract is not extended beyond the summer.
The 35-year-old midfielder is the second-longest serving player at Old Trafford -- after Wayne Rooney -- and his 11-ye…
German Antoine Hey has been appointed as the new head coach of Rwanda.
Rwanda's Football Federation (Ferwafa) said Hey emerged above Swiss Raoul Savoy and Portugal's José Rui Lopes Águas following interviews on Monday.
"The 46-year-o…
A Brazilian court has released Pele's son, Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, who was arrested six days ago for association to drug trafficking and money laundering.
A high court in the capital Brasilia decided Edinho, as the son of the footba…
Mesut Ozil says Jose Mourinho once accused him of being a "coward" and "too nice to tackle" in a dressing room argument during their time at Real Madrid.
The Arsenal midfielder describes the incident in his upcoming autobiography, sayin…
Premier League champions Leicester City have announced a pre-tax profit of £16.4 million for the year ending May 31, 2016.
The club's turnover increased by more than £24m from the previous financial year, mainly due to the prize money f…
Champion club, Accra Hearts of Oak will on Sunday seek to continue with their newly-found winning form at the Nana Agyeman Badu Park in Dormaa-Ahenkro as they come face to face with in-form Aduana Stars in their fifth week match of the Gha…
DR Congo side TP Mazembe are set to sign former Belgium international defender Anthony Vanden Borre.
The 29-year-old, who was was born in DR Congo and has a Congolese mother, is expected to complete a free transfer to the Lubumbashi clu…
Paulo Dybala says he expects to sign a new contract with Juventus soon as talks between his advisors and the Serie A club continue.
Dybala, 23, was expected to put pen to paper on a new deal last week, when his agent was in Turin to con…
Eintracht Frankfurt coach Niko Kovac believes that "you can't do without painkillers in football" as "pros stretch their bodies to the limit."
The Bundesliga side, who are competing for a place in Europe, have seen their form dip as the…
All hail Manchester United's player of the season so far, who played such a decisive role in their EFL Cup triumph against Southampton. He was everywhere, adding an extra body in defence and endlessly creative in attack, finding his greate…
It was already a bad weekend before Liverpool's abysmal 3-1 defeat at struggling Leicester on Monday night.
The club lost sole ownership of its "most successful club in England" tag as Manchester United won their 41st major honour on Su…
After Barcelona thrashed Sporting Gijon 6-1 on Wednesday, Luis Enrique stunned journalists in the Ricard Maxenchs pressroom by announcing he would not be continuing at the club beyond the end of the season.
The coach's contract expires …
Stoke striker Wilfried Bony says his exclusion from the team is a "crazy situation" after he turned down a move to China in the winter transfer window.
The 28-year-old Ivorian joined the club on loan from Manchester City in August, but …
John Mara laughed. Then he sighed. Then he laughed loudly, again. The longtime owner of the New York Giants was considering a simple question -- Could you ever fire a coach less than a year after he won a Super Bowl? -- and Mara admitted h…
Ghana deputy captain Andre Ayew will hit the accelerator after a stop-start beginning to his West Ham career – and Chelsea are next in his sights.
Record £20.5million signing Ayew sprang from the bench to earn a point at Watford wit…
Ghanaian basketball star Ben Bentil made history on Thursday morning (March 2, 2017), becoming the first player born in the country to play in the NBA on his debut with the Dallas Mavericks.
It was a bitter-sweet experience Bentil, …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has impressed on world football Chief Gianni Infantino to ensure that the reforms he has embarked on at FIFA and generally in world football find practical expression in the administration of football …
Gareth Bale has said he did not deserve a red card after being sent off for pushing Las Palmas playmaker Jon Viera in Wednesday's 3-3 draw at the Bernabeu.
Referee David Fernandez Borbalan dismissed Bale early in the second half, with t…
Barcelona took over as La Liga leaders with a 6-1 thrashing of Sporting Gijon on Wednesday night -- but their antics were soon overshadowed by the news Luis Enrique is to leave the Nou Camp.
Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar were all…
ROME -- Lazio won their first derby in nearly four years as they edged city rival Roma 2-0 in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semifinal on Wednesday.
Lazio hadn't beaten Roma since the Coppa final in 2013 but goals from Sergej Milin…