SPORTS

Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, and Arsenal Football Club, have announced a new sponsorship deal. The sponsorship, the largest ever signed by the club and one of the biggest ever agreed in football, grants the airline a 5-year extension to their shirt partnership with the Club until the end of the 2023-2024 season. The new sponsorship agreement, strengthens one ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho has praised Paul Pogba for his performance against Sevilla after leaving the midfielder out of his starting line-up. After being left out of the starting XI by Mourinho, Pogba was called into action early in the first half when Ander Herrera was forced off with an injury. And alongside Nemanja Matic and youngster Scott McTominay, ...

Two of Ghana’s Premier League clubs are on continental assignment this afternoon. Aduana Stars will be hoping to turnaround 1-nill defeat to Al Tahaddy in Egypt when they meet the Libyan club at the newly renovated Agyemang-Badu park in the CAF Champions League. Kumasi Asante Kotoko having wasted three penalties in the first leg will have to punch above their ...

Ghanaweb.com can confirm that the Ghana Football Association has been given the all-clear to start the Ghana Premier League by an Accra High court. This was after the High Court on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 threw out Accra Great Olympics’ application to place an interlocutory injunction on the start of the new Ghana Premier League season. This will come as ...

According to reports, Multimedia journalist and host of Fire for Fire, Patrick Osei Agyeman, popularly known as Countryman Songo was attacked by some CARA supporters during Kotoko’s training session yesterday. According to Songo, the CARA supporters prevented Kotoko from training yesterday and were brutally manhandled by the supporters. “We have been brutally assaulted, I was personally beaten up likewise the ...

Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder, Kevin-Prince Boateng has retained his position as Ghana’s most influential footballer on social media, according to a report Avance Media, CliQAfrica, eazzysocial and Dream Ambassadors Foundation GH. The ranking was based on the number of likes, engagements and mentions a player commands on various social media platforms. Boateng, who has over 6.5 million followers across Facebook, Twitter ...

Top Nigerian club Kano Pillars have announced the death of 28-year-old defender Chinedu Udoji in a car crash on Sunday. The accident happened a few hours after a league game against his former club Enyimba. Udoji, who played for Pillars in Sunday’s 1-1 draw against Enyimba, was involved in an accident on his way back after visiting his former employers. ...

The Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Board approved the appointment of Ernest Hanson as Board Member on Monday 19 February 2018. Mr. Hanson comes with over 20 years Rugby playing experience. He played schoolboy rugby at Clifton College in the UK and another three years at Gloucester Rugby Academy until the age of 21. Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairman ...

Former world number one Serena Williams said she almost died giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr in September. The American, 36, made her competitive return earlier in February when she teamed up with sister Venus for the United States in the Fed Cup. But the 23-time Grand Slam winner has revealed that giving birth “sparked a slew of ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho wants to sell Marcos Rojo to PSG to make room for Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane, according to reports. Manchester United signed Rojo from Sporting Lisbon back in the summer of 2014. The Argentina international has been a regular ever since, blossoming under both Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho’s stewardship. However, Rojo has recently ...