When an African- American football fanatic of mine visited Ghana in the early sixties, he was so fascinated with Agona Swedru All Blacks Football Club that he predicted that the team would in future be the greatest club in Ghana. He was so sentimental about the name All Blacks. I tried in vain to impress upon him that there were certain powerful clubs in the country with such a strong support base, that it would be almost unthinkable to surpass them. He stood his grounds and simply asked me to mark his prediction on the wall. more »

It is an axiom that football and for that matter sports in general, can be used to cool down political tension. It is in this vein that the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has hurried with its programme and this weekend, the 2008/2009 premier league will kick off at all the eight centres exactly two weeks before the national elections. more »

If the purpose of the Black Stars – Tunisia friendly match in Accra on Wednesday was the Football Association’s contribution to cool down political tension in the country, then it achieved its purpose. A few hours after the match, it became the topic for discussion around the country and it was headline news in the media albeit for wrong reasons. more »

Its kudos to Al Ahly, for their splendid performance in winning the Africa Clubs Champions League for an unprecedented sixth time. The Egyptian club has shown that it is the best club in Africa. The titanic 2-2 draw with Cotton Sport of Cameroon in Garoua on Sunday was enough to get them the crown following their first leg 2-0 victory in Cai more »

The name D.G.Hathiramani is synonymous with the progress of table tennis in Ghana. Hathiramani was a naturalized Ghanaian of Indian origin, who single handedly produced more than 60% of Ghana’s table tennis stars spanning nearly four decades. Affectionately called “the table tennis servant of Ghana” he recruited youngsters with no table tennis background and trained them from scratch to become stars. He went to the extent of accommodating some of them, fed them and paid for their educatio more »

A lot of argument is going on in football circles as to the continued captainship of Stephen Appiah for the Black Stars. A school of thought is that Appiah’s inability to sign for a club may make him rusty and it does not make him an inspirer to lead th… more »

No matter the category, any football encounter between Ghana and Nigeria is regarded crucial and Sunday’s Africa Women’s Championships in Equatorial Guinea between the Black Queens of Ghana and Nigeria’s Super Falcons will be no exception. The exciting ingredient in this clash is Nigeria’s domination in women’s football on the continent and Ghana’s determination to halt the trend this time round. It will be tough. more »

The writing was clearly on the wall. The days of Coach Bashiru Hayford with Kumasi Asante Kotoko as coach were numbered. The events following Kotoko’s unexpected 2-2 draw in the CAF Confederation Cup match at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium that effectively ended the club’s championship dreams in October, were an indication that danger was ominously looming in the horizon. more »

The two-match home ban slapped on Ghana’s champion club Kumasi Asante Kotoko by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for crowd violence after the recent Confederation Cup match against Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia, could be described as quite a reas… more »

The Professional League Board "PLB", the body that runs the national football league in Ghana has a new name. It is now the Premier League Board. This change readily brings up the age old question of "what is in a name". more »

The emerging struggle for football supremacy between Ghana and Gambia, albeit on the junior level, makes interesting reading. The other day, it was the Under 20 sides that fought for the final place of next year’s African Youth Championship in R more »

Women’s football started in the late sixties as some sort of fun and leisure sport by a particular breed of ladies generally regarded by men as tough skinned. Football was then regarded as man’s game and ladies who opted to plat it were regarded as such. Ladies football started in the cities, notably Kumasi as Sunday morning recreation that usually ended with good natured chats over food and drinks. more »