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Asante Kotoko SC have reported Algerian club USM Alger to FIFA over unpaid transfer fee of striker Kwame Opoku. Opoku joined the Algiers based side in April 2021 from the Ghanaian club in a deal reported to be around US$300,000 in a four-and-a-half year contract. The Algerian side are yet to pay the amount to Kotoko since completing the signing ...

Patrick Vieira is in advanced talks to become Crystal Palace’s new manager, with a deal said to be ’75 per cent done’ for the Arsenal legend to replace Roy Hodgson. Palace’s move for a new boss this summer has been protracted, after they walked away from a pursuit of Nuno Espirito Santo and were rejected by Lucien Favre earlier this ...

Kylian Mbappe will bounce back from missing the decisive penalty in France’s shootout loss to Switzerland on Monday that saw the world champions exit Euro 2020 at the last-16 stage, coach Didier Deschamps said. The French threw away a two-goal lead to draw 3-3 in normal time, and after a goalless extra time, they crashed out when Mbappe’s penalty was ...

Former President of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, was yesterday re-arraigned before an Accra High Court over alleged shady deals which were exposed by popular investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his ‘Number 12’ investigative piece. Mr. Nyatakyi together with a former member of the Executive Committee of the GFA, Abdulai Alhassan, appeared in court, charged with three counts ...

Accra Hearts of Oak midfielder Ibrahim Salifu has won the player of the month award for May. The Unistar Academy product scoops the award after seeing off a challenge from Sam Adams and Abdul Ismail Ganiu after an impressive start-to-life at Hearts of Oak. Salifu won a number of Man of the Match awards while at Eleven Wonders during the ...

England struck twice late on to end a 55-year wait for a knockout tie victory over Germany amid scenes of huge tension and elation to reach the Euro 2020 quarter-finals at Wembley. Gareth Southgate’s side battled hard to earn the statement victory that has so often eluded England, and it was their talisman of this tournament, Raheem Sterling, who made ...

Volleyball and table tennis teams in the Eastern Region have benefitted from a training seminar by Betway, a leading online sports betting company. The training seminar which falls under the Betway Up programme was aimed at uplifting community sports teams in the Eastern Region. The training session which was held in Koforidua in the Eastern Region was attended by female ...

Ghana international Samuel Sarfo has heaped praise on the Ghanaian Sports media for massively projecting the Ghana premier league. The Top Flight league has garnered a lot patronage this season, something the Ghana league has lacked in recent years. Despite this season’s premier league recording assault cases at some league centers plus Covid-19 robbing supporters from attending a lot of ...

Lionel Messi scored twice as he became Argentina’s most capped player in their 4-1 win Copa America win over Bolivia. The Barcelona forward, 34, made his 148th international appearance, to take Javier Mascherano’s record. Messi set up Papu Gomez’s sixth-minute opener, before scoring a penalty and adding a second just before half-time to extend his record goals tally to 75. ...

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Serena Williams has confirmed she will not play in this summer’s delayed Tokyo Games. The 39-year-old American, who made her Games debut at Sydney in 2000, made the announcement in her pre-Wimbledon media conference on Sunday. “I’m actually not on the Olympic list – not that I’m aware of. If so, then I shouldn’t be on ...