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Ghana international defender Edem Atorvor has signed for Israeli club Maccabi Kishronot Hadera FC. The left-back has signed one-year contract with an option for extension. She was transferred from National Women’s League side Lady Strikers. The 25-year-old has a wealth of experience in international football having represented Ghana at the FIFA U17 and U20 Women’s World Cups. Source: Wires Share ...

Manchester United’s powers of recovery carried them to a first Champions League quarter-final in five years but even Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admits beating Barcelona in the Camp Nou is maybe one mountain too many to climb. Unlike their experience in losing the first leg of their last-16 tie on home soil 2-0 to Paris Saint-Germain, United were not outclassed by ...

Head coach of Asante Kotoko, Charles Kwablan Akonnor says he indebted to Sekondi Eleven Wise for giving him the platform at the start of his coaching career. Akonnor was handed the coaching duties of Sekondi Eleven Wise on February 19, 2009, where he worked with former national teammate Nii Odartey Lamptey as the assistant coach. Speaking to Sekondi based Radio ...

Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has included Kevin-Prince Boateng in the 22 players for Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Boateng has made just one league appearance since his January loan move from Barcelona. The 32-year-old has struggled to fit into the squad. Barcelona squad to face Manchester United: Goalkeepers: Ter Stegen, Cillessen and Iñaki Peña ...

The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja is already agog in anticipation of the arrival of the FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy, which is expected on Nigerian soil Thursday. The Women’s World Cup trophy’s stop-over is coming 13 months after the FIFA World Cup trophy (for men) also made a stop in Nigeria ahead of last year’s FIFA World Cup finals in ...

Magic Johnson stunned the basketball world on Tuesday, abruptly resigning from his management role with the Los Angeles Lakers and plunging the ailing NBA franchise into fresh turmoil. In a dramatic announcement which came shortly before the Lakers’ final game of the season, an emotional Johnson said he was stepping down after a two-year reign as president of basketball operations ...

Lionel Messi has a history of terrorising Manchester United but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes it is not impossible to stop the Barcelona star inflicting more damage in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final. Messi scored in both of Barca’s Champions League final victories over United, in 2009 and 2011, and is hungry to win the competition for a fifth time after crashing ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has returned from a hamstring injury to be named in the Juventus squad for their Champions League quarter-final with Ajax. Ronaldo has not played since sealing his side’s progress to the last eight with a hat-trick against Atletico Madrid on March 12. Giorgio Chiellini misses out with a calf strain, while Emre Can also stays behind with an ...

Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool are “on fire” ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League quarterfinal first leg at home to Porto. Liverpool have won their last five matches in all competitions and are top of the Premier League following wins over Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur; although Manchester City have a game in hand. They reached the last eight of the Champions ...

Chances are that you will soon see the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Iain Walker, and his cycling entourage ride past your town or village if you are on the Paga to Accra road network. Mr. Walker is not part of any cycling competition but rather, the Commissioner plans to cover the over 800 kilometres from Paga into the capital ...