Articles from the ‘Sports’ category
Posted by Contributor on September 23, 2008 at 2:10 pm in Sports
The Greater Accra Amateur Boxing Association (GAABA) has lined-up six exhibition bouts for Friday, September 27 at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Accra to climax the official launch of the Azumah Nelson Foundation. Gideon Quartey, Acting Chairman of GAABA told GNA Sports that the bouts to be contested by some of the best [...]
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Posted by GNA on September 22, 2008 at 7:25 pm in Sports
The maiden Ghana Korea International Golf Championship is scheduled to tee off at the Tema Country Golf Course on Saturday, September 27. Mr Ebenezer Adablanu, Chief Executive of the Club told GNA Sports at Tema on Monday that 150 golfers have been invited to participate in the one-day 18-Hole Medal Play competition. He said the [...]
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Posted by GNA on September 18, 2008 at 7:47 pm in Sports
Ghana’s referee Alex Kotey has been assigned to handle the Champions League match between Dynamos FC of Zimbabwe and Zamalek of Egypt by the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) on Sunday, September 21 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Kotey, winner of the 2006 Referee of the Year Award of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) will [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 4:32 pm in Sports
Wigan Athletic manager Steve Bruce has bolstered his goalkeeping options at the club with Ghana international Richard Kingson signing a two-year contract. Kingson, a free agent after leaving Birmingham City, will provide competition for Chris Kirkland and Mike Pollitt. After a spell out of the game, the 30-year-old is delighted to be given another chance [...]
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Posted by Daily Graphic on at 4:31 pm in Sports
The Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has ordered a replay of the Tema All Stars versus Power FC Division One League (DOL) clash which ended abruptly in Tema. As one of the final games to end the season, the Zone 3B match played at the Oninku Park in Tema failed to travel [...]
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Posted by GNA on September 17, 2008 at 10:13 am in Sports
The Professional League Board, (PLB) organizers of the national Premier League will soon embark on a tour of secretariats of participating Clubs to inspect their facilities. The move by the PLB is to enable it identify problems confronting the Clubs with regards to administration and the personnel manning such offices. According to information gathered by [...]
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Posted by Daily Graphic on September 16, 2008 at 6:07 pm in Sports
A Canadian author, Declan Hill, in his book ‘The Fix’ — about football and organised crime — has reportedly claimed that four games of the World Cup 2006 in Germany could have been rigged as three of the games had the exact results with the fourth one, missing it by just a goal. The games [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 6:05 pm in Sports
Asante Kotoko left Accra this dawn for Morocco en route to Algers, Algeria, for Sunday’s second leg clash against JS Kabylie in a Group 2 tie in the CAF Confederation Cup. Kotoko who defeated the Algerian club 3-1 at the Baba Yara Stadium last Saturday, are expected to spend the night in Rabat and move [...]
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