Ghana coach Avram Grant named a provisional 26-man squad for the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon on Monday, with Leicester City’s Jeff Schlupp a surprise omission. Schlupp’s Leicester team-mate Daniel Amartey was included as was another English Premier League player, Andre ‘Dede’ Ayew of West Ham. Aston Villa’s Jordan Ayew – Andre’s brother – was one of three…
There is something to be said about the group of former Nigeria players known loosely as the Class of ’94. That core group of players re-awakened Nigeria’s football consciousness with swashbuckling, opponent-destroying football, and they also backed it up by qualifying for their first-ever World Cup and winning the African Nations Cup. When Nigeria won Olympic gold in 1996,…
Columbus Crew SC completed the signing of Ghana defender Jonathan Mensah as a designated player on Tuesday. Mensah, 26, moves from Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala and joins Federico Higuain as the second DP in Columbus. The MLS club did not reveal details of the transfer for the center-back, who had another year and a half on his contract at Anzhi….
Much-touted İstanbul Başakşehir midfielder, Joseph Larweh Attamah, will finally make a dream debut with the Black Stars as he joins the team’s third training session today as part of the build-up towards the Gabon 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. The former Satellites dependable defender, who has been in a form of his life for his Turkish club this season,…
Nigerian football legend, Austin Jay Jay Okocha, and officials of African Exclusive Bundesliga Broadcaster, StarTimes, have paid a courtesy call on the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Executive Committee to discuss ways of developing the game in the country. Okocha, a former German Bundesliga great with Eintracht Frankurt in the 1990s, is in the country to promote the league. He…
Orlando Pirates defender Edwin Gyimah has reportedly began training with his Ghana teammates ahead of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals. The 25-year-old was involved a serious car accident on Monday when his vehicle collided with a taxi in his hometown of Obuasi, Ghana. According to Ghana’s leading football website, GHANAsoccernet.com, Gyimah has joined his Black Stars teammates at…
The newly crowned WBO international super bantamweight champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (16-0, 10 KO’s) on Thursday, landed in Ghana from U.K. and has promised fireworks in 2017. Isaac Dogboe who was in the company of his father/trainer Paul Dogboe received hero’s welcome as hundred of onlookers at the airport heaped praised on the 22 year-old rising star. Dogboe…
Westbrook, the Thunder guard, is dominating opponents thisseason with double-digit averages in points, rebounds and assists. Russell Westbrook needed one more assist for another triple-double in his ruthless campaign across the N.B.A., so he drove the lane and tried to thread a pass to Joffrey Lauvergne, his teammate with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Instead, the ball bobbled loose for…
Francesco Totti, a native Roman, has spent his entire career with A.S. Roma:23 years and counting. He hopes to end his playing days in a Roma jersey. ROME — Armed with spray cans, the vandals last descended on Via della Madonna dei Monti, a dead-end alley not far from the Colosseum, about six months ago. They come to this…
“Who the Heck Is Alexis Ohanian, and Why Would Serena Williams Want to Date Him?” Slate magazine asked in a headline last year. Mr. Ohanian is a co-founder of Reddit, and, as of Thursday, Ms. Williams not only wants to date him, but plans to marry him. Ms. Williams, the tennis superstar, announced her engagement to Mr. Ohanian on…
