Articles from the ‘Sports’ category

Hearts of Oak to tour Sudan

Posted by on February 17, 2009 at 5:26 pm in Sports

By ghanasoccernet.com – Ghana Soccernet Hearts of Oak will embark on a one-week training of Sudan in an attempt to preserve their form during the two-week break of the Glo Premier League. The current league leaders have a seven point lead and want to keep their focus until action resumes after the CHAN tournament in [...]

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Tema Golf President’s Putter Championship tees off on Feb. 21

Posted by on at 9:36 am in Sports

The annual Tema Country Golf Club President’s Putter Championship tees off at Tema on Saturday, Feb 21. Mr Ebenezer Adablanu, General Manager of the Club who announced this at Tema on Monday, said about 150 amateur golfers are expected to participate in the one-day 18-Hole Medal Play championship which would be sponsored by Mr Do [...]

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Catholic Synod opens

Posted by on at 9:22 am in Sports

Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has re-affirmed government’s determination to partner with religious bodies in ensuring that state appointees were not consumed with their own needs, but work towards reducing the difficulties of the ordinary people. He said the mainstay of the NDC administration would be to seek the welfare of ordinary citizens, adding that, in [...]

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Fourth joint annual inter-houses athletics competition ends

Posted by on at 9:21 am in Sports

The fourth joint annual Inter-Houses Athletics competition of Yendi Senior High School on conjunction with Dagbon State Senior High Technical School has ended at Yendi in the Northern Region with Ya-Na House of Yendi Senior High School emerging champions with 146 points. The Gundogu House of Dagbon State Senior High Technical School was second with [...]

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PLB condemns tamper of CCTV at Baba Yara stadium

Posted by on at 9:20 am in Sports

The Professional League Board (PLB) has condemned the tampering of the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) mechanism at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium after the crucial Week Nine Premier League clash involving Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak. Four persons died and scores of fans injured as the two most glamorous clubs clashed in the [...]

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Akonnor and Lamptey to get coaching slots

Posted by on at 9:19 am in Sports

Former Ghanaian internationals, Charles Kwabena Akonnor and Nii Odartey Lampety have been contracted by Premiership side, Eleven Wise to manage the Sekondi-based side till the end of the soccer season. Akonnor, a former captain of the Black Stars would act as the head coach whiles Lamptey deputises to shape up the fortunes of the club [...]

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Black Stars To Prepare From Sekondi

Posted by on February 16, 2009 at 12:50 pm in Sports

The Black Stars will set up camp in Sekondi from where Milovan Rajevac will begin the final leg of Ghana’s build up for the African Nations Championship. Players called up will be reporting to the Raybow Hotel in Sekondi on Saturday, February 14 at 3.00pm. From a tall list of 40 players, the Black Stars [...]

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Akonnor Handed Wise Job

Posted by on at 12:49 pm in Sports

Two former Ghana internationals landed coaching jobs in the Glo Premier League. Sekondi Eleven Wise called on C.K Akonnor and Nii Odartey Lamptey to lead the team. The two have been put in charge of the Sekondi-based team who returned to top flight football this season after a ten-year spell in the lower leagues. The [...]

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