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Paul Pogba earned League Cup and Europa League winner’s medals in his first season back at Manchester United Manchester United have been cleared by Fifa of wrongdoing in the deal to sign Paul Pogba from Juventus last August. However, football’s world governing body will open disciplinary proceedings against the Italian ...

By: Hamza Lansah Lolly   The Ghana Immigration Service in the Northern Region has won this year’s AU soccer gala organized by the Lands Commission. The Immigration Service beat the Ghana Fires Service to become first in the tournament after they beat the Lands Commission 2 to 1 to the ...

Basketball governing body FIBA ratifies proposal overturning ban on head coverings including hijab. Many have been forced to give up basketball on the professional level due to FIBA’s ban on headgear [File: Ali Jarekji/Reuters] Headgear, including the hijab and yarmulkes, will be allowed in professional basketball following the approval of ...

Ghana winger Frank Acheampong grabbed a brace for Anderlecht in their UEFA Europa League clash with Russian side Zenith St Petersburg in their round of 32 clash. The 24-year-old raced the Royal Club into a 5th minute lead before doubling the advantage 26 minutes later at the Stade Constant Vandent ...

West Ham coach Slaven Bilic faced the media ahead of his side’s Premier League game against West Brom on Saturday with good news about Ghana star Andre Ayew. Ayew got injured against Chelsea and initial reports said the forward will be four months out. But Bilic has further given more hope that ...

Ghanaian Boxer Emmanuel “Game Boy” Tagoe (25-1, 12 KO’s) is set to face Filipino Carlo “The Ferocious” Magali (20-7-3, KO’s) in a bout dubbed “Fisticlash” on the July 15 at the Sports Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium. This will be the second time the orthodox boxer will be defending ...

President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, says withdrawal scare by Premier League clubs do not bode well for the image of the competition. The FA capo was speaking in the wake of threats by some clubs to pull out from the topflight due to financial struggles resulting from ...

Black Stars defender, Abdul Baba Rahman has made a staunch defence against the perceived lack of commitment by members of the national team, insisting they do not play for money. Members of the Black Stars have courted disaffection by the public because of huge sums of money given to them ...

The first thing that gives you a clue this is no ordinary football game is the crowd. More than half are women. The eastern Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) is crazy about football but this many women at a game is unusual, especially on such a warm afternoon. But it’s ...

Sulley Muntari’s dirty disciplinary record reared its ugly head in Saudi Arabia with the controversial Ghanaian midfielder getting a two-match ban and slapped with a fine for physically attacking an opponent during a match. This comes just under two years after the Ghana star physically attacked a Ghana FA official ...