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2019/20 Ghana Premier League Season Over, But a Silver Lining Survives
Unless you are a certain Alhaji Karim Grunsah, pleased to have his club, Kumasi King Faisal, spared the almost inevitable fate of relegation (temporarily,...
‘OBI MAN SO’: Foreign-Based Ghanaian Footballers Call For Help, Amid COVID-19...
Most weeks, they'd be playing football for at least 90 minutes but, in these 90 seconds, they pleaded.
Earnestly.
With the background of a leaning signpost...
OKRAKU’S OTHER ‘HORSE’: COVID-19 Highlights Ghana Football’s Financial Flaws
Kurt Okraku rode to the Ghana Football Association's presidency last October, in a chariot drawn by two horses: igniting passion and creating wealth.
The first...
SENEGAL ’92: Ghana’s Wounds Yet To Heal
I'm 27 now -- almost 28 -- and I've seen Ghana play, and lose, two finals in the quest to secure that elusive fifth...
JUNE 6: Ghana Football Steadily Building from Ruins of ‘Number 12’
Two years later, Ghana football is frozen again. It's a very different place, however, with hope thriving where horror once reigned, and despair overcome...
Ghana FA pays Black Stars B after placing second in 2019...
The Ghana Football Association has fulfilled its pledge of $25,000 to the players and technical team members of the Black Stars ‘B’ team that...
CRISP & CLEAR: GFA’s Asante Twum Is the Consummate Communicator
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has a new face: bold, fresh, and bespectacled.
If you're thinking of Kurt Okraku,
the organization's new president, fair enough. If...
MOVING ON: ‘Colts’ Is Dead; Long Live Academies
Watch any Ghanaian speak about the special place 'colts' -- read 'grassroots' or 'juvenile' -- football holds in the country's sporting fabric, and you'd...
MTN FA CUP: What’s in a Name?
The earliest rounds of the MTN FA Cup often digs up some of the most unusual club names football fans could never ever hear;...
HOPE AT LAST?: Kotoko Reaction Good for War on Violence
It may have taken a gunshot or two that left a man bloodied and battling for dear life, but Ghana's domestic football could be...
