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LUKE SHAW has apologised to fans for Manchester United’s performance at West Ham, insisting the players were not fit to wear the famous shirt on Saturday. Question marks have been raised over the future of manager Jose Mourinho following a tepid 3-1 defeat on the back of damning images from the training ground which appeared to show a complete breakdown ...

Former Ghana Premier League champions, Asante Kotoko have named for Black Stars skipper Charles Kwablan Akonnor on a three-year deal. The former Dreams FC gaffer is expected to lead the technical bench till 2021. His signing was done at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi on Monday with Kotoko represented by Chief Executive Officer, George Amoako, with the backing of management ...

African nations would support Gianni Infantino for re-election as FIFA president, the head of the continental football federation Ahmad Ahmad said on Sunday, AFP reports. “I feel it is my duty… to announce this support from Africa,” Ahmad said at a special meeting of the Confederation of African Football Executive Committee, which Infantino attended, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Infantino, a ...

FIFA/CAF Normalisation Committee and the Ghana League Clubs Association(GHALCA) met for the first time on Tuesday evening. This brainstorming meeting comes after football-related activities in Ghana came to a halt following the premiering of the Anas Aremeyaw Anas expose in June. However, in a joint statement released after the meeting, the two parties stated they “recognize the need to resume ...

Germany on Thursday won the race to host the 2024 European Championship as UEFA backed a bid seen as safer than the rival Turkish proposal. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin announced the winner following a campaign that saw politics and concerns over human rights in Turkey play a central role. Germany hasn’t hosted a major international football tournament since the 2006 ...

After Luka Modric was confirmed as FIFA player of the year, the votes of top stars including Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have been revealed. The award was decided by a collection of votes, coming from the captains of each international team, their managers, and designated media officials from each country. Modric took the top honour with 29.05 per cent ...

Gabon’s football federation (Fegafoot) has hired a trio of former national team skippers to rescue the country’s aspirations of qualifying for the continental football showpiece scheduled for next year in Cameroon. A Thursday statement from Fegafoot announced that Pierre Aubame and Daniel Cousin have been named as co-coaches of Gabon after the dismissal last week of Spaniard Jose Antonio Camacho. ...

Ghana assistant coach Ibrahim Tanko says he sides with Schalke 04 left-back Baba Rahman who has asked for some time away from international duty to regain full fitness after a long-term injury. The 24-year-old only played his first competitive game in May due to a terrible knee injury picked up while on duty the Black Stars at the Africa Cup ...

Aduana Stars midfielder Elvis Opoku has questioned the decision of the club’s top hierarchy to sack former coach of Yussif Abuabakar. The midfielder vented his frustrations at the club, insisting the decision to sack Abubakar made no sense and went ahead to criticize the appointment of Keinechi Yatuhashi. “What was the point in the sacking of Yusif.” Elvis quizzed speaking ...

The Ghana Football Association is now a reptile breeding ground after 3 months inactivity at the Secretariat. The FIFA Normalisation Committee (NC) has tasked staff of the Ghana Football Association, GFA, to find a cleaner to clear the offices before work begins. The Government of Ghana, through the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID), handed over the secretariat to the Normalisation ...