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Asante Kotoko’s controversial penalty against Samartex caused a heated debate between former player Charles Taylor and Angel TV pundit Listowel Mensah on live TV.

Regarding the penalty incident, Kotoko winger Emmanuel Kotei sent a cross into the Samartex box in search of a connection from a Kotoko player. Peter Aminu, who popped up in the area, miscued his effort and, in the process, collided with a Samartex defender.

The referee, without hesitation, pointed to the spot and awarded Asante Kotoko a penalty, much to the chagrin of the away team, who protested that they rather deserved a foul.

Speaking on Angel TV, Taylor argued that the call was wrong while Listowel, who is a staunch Kotoko fan, disagreed, claiming it was the right call.

While making his point, Charles Taylor said the referee should have awarded Samartex a free kick on the account that the Kotoko player made the contact and not the other way around.

Listowel, on the other hand, claimed that the Samartex defender made the contact by steppin
g on the foot of the Kotoko attacker in an attempt to block the shot.

Kotoko won 1-0 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium after Enoch Morrison converted the penalty to give them three points.

Source: Ghana Web

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced that it has appointed experienced coach Karim Zito as head coach for the newly-formed national U19 male team.

Coach Zito in his new role will be assisted by former Asante Kotoko striker Eric Bekoe.

‘The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has appointed the vastly experienced Abdul Karim Zito as the Head Coach of the newly formed national U19 male team in a bid to fortify Ghana’s youth football infrastructure.

‘This strategic move is in line with the GFA’s unwavering commitment to nurturing young talent and building a culture of consistent excellence within all the national teams. It also aligns with the strategy of building a developmental pathway for young Ghanaian players.

‘Assisting Zito in this pivotal role is former Asante Kotoko striker Eric Bekoe, whose experience, expertise, and positive energy will certainly complement Zito’s strong leadership,’ parts of a communiqué from the Ghana FA said on Monday, April 22.

Meanwhile, Eric Amponsah has been name
d goalkeeper trainer for the Ghana male U19 national team.

Source: Ghana Web

Black Stars forward Ernest Nuamah was on target for Olympique Lyon on Sunday, April 21, 2024, when the team suffered a heavy 4-1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germaine in the French Ligue 1.

The game was the Round 30 fixture between the two French top-flight sides.

Ernest Nuamah scored his team’s only goal of the game in the 37th minute. The snippet of his strike was shared on Ligue One’s official handle with the title: “Ernest Nuamah keeps rising and shining.”

Unfortunately, his goal could only serve as a consolation as PSG put Lyon to the sword to amass all three points.

The league leaders in French Ligue 1 took the lead through Nemanja Matic’s own goal in the 3rd minute before Lucan Beraldi made it 2-0 three minutes later.

Courtesy of a brace from Goncalo Ramos later on, PSG cruised to an emphatic 4-1 win to stay top of the French Ligue 1 standings.

Ernest Nuamah keeps rising and shining ?????? pic.twitter.com/SwZEt3kvS2

– Ligue 1 English (@Ligue1_ENG) April 22, 2024

Source: Ghana Web

Midfielder of Accra Lions Football Club, Emmanuel Dzigbah has undergone a successful meniscus repair surgery in Serbia.

The Ghana Premier League outfit recently airlifted the player to Serbia to get a solution to his injury.

The club reported on Monday, April 22, 2024, that the surgery which took place in the Serbian capital of Belgrade was successful.

Sharing some remarks, Accra Lions chairman Oliver Koenig said the club is committed to taking care of all of its players.

‘As a club, we are responsible for providing our players with the best possible medical care. In Emmanuel’s case, we were advised by our Ghanaian doctors to seek treatment abroad due to the complexity of the injury.

‘We are very pleased that the surgery went well and that we will see him back on the pitch very soon.” We wish Emmanuel a speedy recovery,’ Accra Lions chairman Oliver Koenig said.

Our midfielder Emmanuel Dzigbah successfully underwent a meniscus repair surgery in the Serbian capital Belgrade.

We wish Emmanuel a speedy rec
overy! (1/3)#yennyinaadea #accralions #GhanaPremierLeague pic.twitter.com/dpCIqHgI77

– Accra Lions F.C. (@AccraLionsFC) April 22, 2024

Source: Ghana Web

Ghanaian striker, Bernard Tekpetey, has donated GHS3,000 to a visually impaired woman to aid in her activities.

The money which was donated to the woman through content creator, Nana Tea, is meant to assist the woman open a grocery store.

Nana Tea had made an earlier post about how the visually impaired lady hawks on the streets to make ends meet.

According to Tea, the woman lost her sight after the birth of her second child and that she sells candies on the streets with the help of her son.

The lady has received support from Ghanaians, including Tekpetey who offered a handout after he saw the viral video.

Nana Tea confirmed the Black Stars player’s donation via a post on his Facebook wall.

“Wow, it’s amazing, I have a football star who follows me. Football legend Bernard Tekpetey has sent me 3,000gh to support the visually impaired woman to get her a tabletop provision shop so she can stop moving around on the street with her Kube toffee. God richly bless you sir.”

Bernard Tekpetey is one of the many
Black Stars players who give back to society.

He has a foundation through which he makes donations to the less privileged.

Source: Ghana Web

Ghanaian teenager Ibrahim Osman scored for FC Nordsjaelland on Monday evening when the team hammered Aarhus 7-2 in the Danish Superliga.

The talented forward started for his team in their Round 26 encounter of the 2023/24 campaign.

In a game where Ibrahim Osman operated from the flanks, he was impressive with his performance and got his name on the scoresheet in the 27th minute.

Thanks to a hat-trick from Andreas Schjelderup and goals from Daniel Svensson, Jeppe Tverskov, as well as Conrad Harder, FC Nordsjaelland put Aarhus to the sword to bag all three points.

For the visiting team, a brace from Patrick Mortensen served as the consolation goal for the travelling fans.

This season, Ghana’s Ibrahim Osman has scored four goals and provided five assists after making 23 appearances in the Danish Superliga.

He has already signed a deal with Brighton and Hove Albion and will play with the side in the English Premier League next season.

Source: Ghana Web

The national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers will be in New Zealand in June this year to participant in the International Professional and Amateur Boxing tournament in Auckland with their New Zealand counterparts.

According to Vice President of the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) Mr. Dauda Fuseni, the programme was to enable boxers of the two countries to test and sharpen their skills ahead of major international boxing events.

He said while the main team would be in Thailand to participate in the second World Boxing Qualifier for Paris 2024, the reserve side comprising other top young budding pugilists like Mohammed Aryeetey and Abu Kamoko would get the opportunity to travel to New Zealand for the project which is a bilateral relationship agreed by the Amateur Federations of the two countries.

Mr. Fuseni said the Black Bombers remarkable performance at the 13th?African Games where they bagged four gold, one silver and two bronze medals had been noticed and Ghana was still seen as a great boxing natio
n.

‘We need the exposure, our boys are good, but they lack international exposure and experience, they must go out to fight or we must invite other nationals here and it is not easy, so when such opportunities come we should not let it slip’ he said in a media interview.

Mr. Fuseni said the Black Bombers must be in Paris at all cost adding ‘We should be at the 2024 Olympic Games, we have made the history and we should maintain it’.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Ghanaian football coach, Nana Agyemang, has blamed Asante Kotoko’s patron Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for the club’s woes.

While highlighting his reasons, Nana Agyemang said, that unlike clubs in Europe where the patrons are relatively unknown, Otumfuo appears to be the face of Kotoko.

“When you look at Manchester United, a very big club, I don’t know the patron. The patrons of those clubs don’t feature in the same way that Otumfuo does,’ Agyemang told JoySports.

Additionally, he mentioned the King’s managerial appointments, which he alleges are not genuine.

‘The King is one big issue for me, then the management members that he selects is another problem. How they are selected represents another problem because huge lobbying goes on.’

‘We are supposed to be having some competent people sitting around a table being the board managing this club and we can never ever get to that stage,” he added.

Asante Kotoko, since making the finals of the 2004 CAF Confederations Cup, have been on a decline over the years.

The
y have won one league title in the last nine years while group stages have been their best results in the CAF inter-club competitions.

Currently, they sit 10th on the 2023/2024 Ghana Premier League table. They have won two, drew one, and lost 7 of their last 10 matches.

Source: Ghana Web