Category: Sports

A spirited performance by Gold Stars inspired the team to defeat Hearts of Oak by a goal to nil on Sunday evening.

As part of the ongoing 2023/24 Ghana Premier League season, the Bibiani team played against the Phobians in a Week 24 match as the visiting team.

In a game played at the Accra Sports Stadium, both teams played well in the first half and created good goal-scoring opportunities, but neither side could find the back of the net.

After recess, a tough contest ensued between the opposing teams as they vied to score the winning goal.

Unfortunately, the home team could not get the breakthrough and had to succumb to a narrow defeat at full-time.

Bibiani Gold Stars secured a win against Hearts of Oak with a late goal from Mawuli Wayo in the second half.

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Karela United claimed a vital 1-0 win over fellow relegation fighters Heart of Lions in match week 24 of the 2023/24 Ghana Premier League on Sunday afternoon at the Naa Sheriga Sports Complex in Nalerigu.

It means the Pride and Passion lads are back to winning ways following their 1-0 loss to Bofoakwa Tano the previous weekend.

Meanwhile, it is now a fourth straight game without a win for Bashir Hayford’s side, whose chances of surviving the drop are growing slim.

Karela United have now moved from fifteenth on the league table to 13th with 30 points after starting the day on 27 points.

Meanwhile, Heart of Lions remain second from bottom with 22 points.

Rashid Alhassan broke the hearts of the visitors with a 90th minute winner in Nalerigu to ensure Abukari Damba’s men are back to winning ways.

Karela United will next take on Bibiani Gold Stars while Heart of Lions take on Accra Lions at home at the Kpando Kpando Sports Stadium in match week 25 of the Ghana Premier League.

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Former Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi revealed that his daughter interrogated him a few days after Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ investigative piece dubbed Number 12 aired in 2018.

According to him, his daughter, who was nine years old, came home worried that a friend had called her father corrupt at school.

The daughter sought clarification from her father and thus asked Nyantakyi, ‘Daddy, is it true that you are corrupt?’.

In an interview with Sompa FM, the former CAF vice president reassured his daughter about his innocence.

‘I told my 9-year-old daughter that someone lied about me, and I reassured her that by the grace of God, I will be vindicated in the end when she asked me if I am corrupt,’ he said.

Kwesi Nyantakyi stepped down as GFA boss after FIFA suspended him for violating the association’s ethical code on bribery and corruption.

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Legendary Ghanaian footballer Asamoah Gyan has vowed to continue to issue ‘appropriate’ responses to persons who attack him on social media.

Asamoah Gyan believes that he has a right to respond accordingly to such persons and that failure to do so will be an exhibition of cowardice.

According to Gyan, he has built a reputation and credibility over the years and will not allow anyone to come at him in the name of social media.

“I should sit for somebody to come talk to me anyhow cos it’s social media right? I’m not a coward like some people,” he stated.

A social media user who sought to rubbish Gyan’s claim that inexperience was the Black Stars’ bane in their game against Brazil in the 2006 World Cup drew Gyan’s ire.

Asamoah Gyan denied suggestions that Ghana was overpowered by the star-studded Brazilian side, explaining that the team’s lack of experience cost it a place in the quarter-final of the competition in Germany.

“Experience was the difference in that game, but I disagree if you say we were cook
ed, bro. Go back and watch the full game, bro,” he wrote in reply to a post by journalist Owuraku Ampofo suggesting Ghana got ‘cooked’ in the game.

Gyan’s explanation elicited a reply from a tweep who said, “My friend, my friend. Them cook we.”

An unhappy Asamoah Gyan denied any association with the tweep, stating, “Who is your friend? I blame social media. Eni wo n3.”

What happened in the game?

Ghana was no match for Brazil, who thumped the African giants 3-0. The Black Stars conceded the first goal just five minutes into the game. Asamoah Gyan was sent off in the 81st minute after picking up a second yellow card for diving.

The Black Stars had finished second in Group E with 6 points, beating the Czech Republic and USA while losing to group winners Italy.

Ronaldo, Adriano, and Ze Roberto scored goals for Brazil in the game played on June 27, 2006.

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After dedicating nearly 50 years to her career as a nurse in the UK, renowned Ghanaian sprinter Rose Amankwaah has retired from public service.

A send-off party was thrown for Amankwaah to commend her 49 years of relentless commitment and hard work.

She began working at the National Health Service (NHS) in 1975, three years after competing in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Amankwaah moved to England in 1974, at age 22, to pursue her nursing career. She was employed at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, where she served as a staff nurse before becoming a theatre matron.

Amakwaah spent all her nursing career at Central Middlesex Hospital. For her remarkable work, she was once awarded the NHS Silver Medal Award.

Regarding her short athletic career, she competed in the Africa Games, the Commonwealth Games, and the Olympics.

Rose Amankwaah was once labelled as ‘the fastest woman in Africa’. She won gold in the 200m at the Latin American Games in 1973, silver and gold in the 100m and 4×100 relay at the
All Africa Games in 1973, and a bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the Commonwealth Games in 1974.

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Hearts of Oak coach, Aboubakar Ouattara, believes the lack of experience by goalkeeper Sharif Shuaib caused the team’s defeat in their game against Bibiani GoldStars.

In an attempt for a fast break, Shuaib’s shot deflected off an opposition player’s body and Mawuli Way took advantage of it to score the only goal in the match.

Speaking after the game, the Ivorian coach stated that the goalkeeper needs more time to settle down and work on some mistakes.

‘That unfortunately, we conceded one goal, that’s the problem,’ Aboubakar Ouattara told StarTimes after the game.

‘That counterattack the goalkeeper wanted to do; that is a lack of the experience of him, but I think all these things, we are there to prepare the team.’

Heart of Oak have suffered back-to-back defeats under Aboubakar Ouattara after going unbeaten for five games under the Ivorian trainer.

The Phobians are currently 10th on the league table with 32 points.

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Manchester United and Liverpool played out a sensational 2-2 draw at Old Trafford, as Jurgen Klopp’s side missed the chance to reclaim the top spot in the Premier League.

Luis Diaz put Liverpool ahead in a one-sided first half during which they had 16 shots to United’s zero, but Bruno Fernandes levelled in brilliant style when he pounced on Jarell Quansah’s poor pass to beat the stranded Caoimhin Kelleher from 50 yards out.

United took an unlikely lead when Kobbie Mainoo curled a beautiful finish into the top corner, punishing Liverpool’s earlier wastefulness, but the game took another twist when Mohamed Salah netted from the spot after Aaron Wan-Bissaka had fouled Harvey Elliott.

It was another extraordinary contest between the two sides, only three weeks after the seven-goal FA Cup thriller from which United emerged victorious, and it remained open until the last.

In the end, the draw ensures Manchester United avoid back-to-back defeats following their 4-3 loss to Chelsea in midweek, allowing them to de
nt their old rivals’ title hopes in the process, with leaders Arsenal now in pole position in the race for the crown.

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Sports journalist, Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly known as Countryman Songo, has finally issued an apology to Black Stars assistant coach, John Paintsil after the latter pressed charges against him.

Countryman Songo who is one of the defendants in a defamation suit by John Paintsil issued an apology to the ex-player during his show on Adom TV on Monday, April 8, 2024.

The journalist who was remorseful for his actions said his utterances against the Black Stars assistant coach were misguided because he allowed his emotions to override him.

‘God said we should be straightforward so if you realize that you’ve wronged your brother, just apologize. I want to apologize to John Paintsil for some things that didn’t go well. He’s a deputy Black Stars coach. I said certain things that didn’t sit well with him and it worried him,” Songo said.

He added, “Sometimes when you get angry you say things that you later regret because you didn’t handle things well. So I want to tell him I am sorry and I ask for his forgive
ness because after all football is the reason we are in this industry.”

Background

John Paintsil sued four sports journalists and three media entities for defamation and demanded GHS80 million in damages.

The journalists named in the lawsuit were Veronica Commey, Saddick Adams, Christopher Nimley, and Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly known as Countryman Songo.

Additionally, the media entities Omni Media Limited, Angel Broadcasting Network, and Multimedia Group were served with a writ.

They were given eight days to respond and enter an appearance in court.

John Paintsil came under heavy criticism following his appointment as deputy coach of Ghana’s senior national team.

He had earlier courted public disaffection after chastising some journalists, including some of those named in his suit, for leading a demonstration against the Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The demonstration sought to highlight the poor state of football in Ghana and sports in general and to draw the
attention of the regulatory bodies to the issue.

But John Paintsil mounted a spirited defence for the GFA and the ministry, noting that the protest lacked merit.

Source: Ghana Web