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La Liga has asked for El Clasico on 26 October to be switched from Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium to Real Madrid’s Bernabeu over fears of civil unrest. There have been days of protest in Barcelona after nine Catalan separatist leaders were jailed on Monday. La Liga made the request to the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), and both clubs will be ...

Anthony Joshua saw his 30th birthday celebrations gatecrashed by drug testers on Monday. His manager, Freddie Cunningham, shared footage on social media of the former heavyweight champion preparing to tuck into a huge chocolate cake. The British star was celebrating his latest birthday during the middle of his training camp in Sheffield ahead of his December 7 rematch with Andy Ruiz ...

Friday’s start of the Ghana FA elections is highly unlikely after a fresh  interlocutory injunction hit the federation throwing the entire process into serious doubt. A third division club in Tema served the Normalisation Committee on Tuesday claiming the entire process must be stopped until the court hears the full case. The Tema Court has scheduled the hearing of the ...

UEFA announced on Tuesday that it is opening disciplinary proceedings against Turkey into “potential provocative political behaviour” by their players after making military salutes in their last two matches. In both their Euro 2020 qualifiers against Albania on Friday and France on Monday, Turkish players made the salutes — seen as supporting Turkey’s current military operation in Syria — as ...

The Ghana Football Association has released the official list of delegates for the 2019 GFA Extraordinary (Elective) Congress to be held on 25th October 2019 at the College of Physicians & Surgeons in Accra. The list comprises of delegates from all 16 Premier League Clubs, Division One League Clubs, Women’s Elite League Clubs and other constituent bodies pursuant to Article ...

American prodigy Coco Gauff continued her rise up the ranks of women’s tennis on Monday when the WTA rankings showed a climb of 39 places to number 71 in the world. Gauff started last week in Linz at 110 and was originally set for an early departure from Austria after losing in the qualifying rounds before grabbing a lifeline as ...

The rapid rise of Coco Gauff in 2019 has hit another massive milestone as the American teenage sensation won her first WTA singles title at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz, outlasting former Top 5 player Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, in the championship match on Sunday. It is a stunning conclusion to an already noteworthy week for Gauff, ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application for an injunction filed by disqualified Central Regional Football Association aspirant Roy Arthur, Monday. The application sought to restrain the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Normalisation Committee acting as the Elections Committee from going ahead with the electoral process of getting new leaders for the Federation. Mr Arthur filed a suit against the Committee ...

The English Premier League risks losing a single spot out of the four automatic places available in the UEFA Champions League from 2021 due to proposed changes by the European Leagues Association. European Leagues Association has proposed that all the top leagues would be limited to just three automatic qualifiers from 2021, whilst the group which represents 36 leagues and ...

Tema Youth president Wilfred Osei Kwaku has hired top-notch football legal brain Thaddeus Sory to fight his disqualification from the Ghana FA presidential race, GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm. The hugely-respected luminary will lead a three-member team to fight the legal case to its logical conclusion. Osei Kwaku has filed an appeal against the decision to disqualify him from the race amid ...