Avram Grant Resigns After Poor AFCON
Ghana coach Avram Grant has resigned after failing to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations crown. The former Chelsea manager told the Ghana FA on Tuesday that he's unwilling to continue with 21 days...
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Avram Grant Resigns After Disappointing AFCON Campaign
Ghana coach Avram Grant has resigned from his post as head coach of Ghana’s Black Stars with barely two weeks to the end of his contract. The 60-year-old Israeli coach signed a 28-month contract...
Ghana Coach Avram Grant Blames AFCON Defeat On Set Pieces
Ghana coach Avram Grant has attributed the Black Stars poor show in the Gabon championship to set pieces. To the Israeli trainer, Ghana could have traveled far in the competition if it had not...
Young Players Must Given A Chance
Former Black Stars player Augustine Arhinful has decried the suppression of young talents in Ghana’s football despite shinning potentials available. Speaking with Sammy Forson on GHOne after the...
Four Lessons From the 2017 AFCON
The 31st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) might have come and gone but the experiences will most definitely linger for a little while. Cameroon, against all odds, clinched the title at...
Ghana Bags 1.5m Dollars From AFCON 2017
The Ghana Black Stars are to receive an amount of US$1.5million after a disappointing campaign which saw them place fourth at the just-ended 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. The champions of the...
Fans Cheer As Stars Arrive In Ghana After AFCON 2017 Tournament
The Black Stars of Ghana touched down at the Kotoka International Airport to a rousing welcome from Ghanaian football fans despite their disappointing campaign at the just ended AFCON 2017. Skipper...
Revolution To Hit Ghana Football – Kudjoe Fianoo
Chief Executive officer of Ashanti Gold FC, Kudjoe Fianoo had hinted that Ghana Football will soon experience new transformation. Speaking to KASAPA Sports last Sunday during the AFCON finals, the...
Media Have Destroyed Ghana Football – Sports Analyst
The failure of journalists to criticise the administrators of the country’s football accounts for Ghana’s continued decline in football, Thomas Monreaux Best, a sports analyst, has said....
Black Stars Arrive In Ghana After AFCON 2017
The Black Stars of Ghana touched down at the Kotoka International Airport to a rousing welcome from Ghanaian football fans despite their disappointing campaign at the just ended AFCON 2017. Skipper...
How Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions Roared Again
Cameroon won their fifth Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Gabon on Sunday and it was arguably their greatest triumph. World Cup star Roger Milla was the lynchpin of the victorious 1984 and 1988 sides,...
Black Stars Receive US$ 1.5 Million For Finishing Fourth
Ghana's senior national team, the Black Stars will receive US$ 1.5 million for finishing fourth at the just ended 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. Avram Grant's side were defeated 1-0 by Burkina...
An Underdog Football Story
I follow sports, not only for the thrill it delivers when the side you support wins a competition. I also follow sports for the great stories. Behind all the huffing and puffing, it is always great...
The Dimming Black Stars, Still Breaking Hearts
I am sure you saw the social media ‘joke’ about the ‘six killer diseases’ being whooping cough,measles,TB,Arsenal,Polio and The Black Stars! This was after our previously beloved ‘all...
Cameroon’s Road To AFCON Glory
Vincent Aboubakar scored a brilliant late goal to hand unfancied Cameroon a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Egypt and their fifth African Nations Cup title in an entertaining final on Sunday....
Here Are Very Important Facts You Must Know
Although the Black Stars once more failed to lift the Cup of Nations, it is indisputable that everything about Ghana AFCON 2017 was worth the while. You’ll agree with me after reading this: On a...
A To Z of AFCON 2017
An A to Z of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon... A (Algeria) Once again touted as potential champions and once again flops, exiting after first round without a win. Big names like Riyad Mahrez...
Top Quotes From AFCON 2017
Top quotes from the Africa Cup of Nations tournament: "I had a feeling that I was going to save the final two penalties." - 44-year-old Egypt goalkeeping hero Essam El Hadary after saving two...
Fitness Crucial To Cameroon Triumph
Cameroon head coach Hugo Broos has related his side’s win to their physical incisiveness against a very skilled Egypt team after lifting the Afcon 2017 trophy at Stade de l’Amitie in Libreville...
Cameroon Win AFCON 2017
Cameroon came from behind to beat Egypt 2-1 and seal a fifth Africa Cup of Nations in a thrilling, edgy final. Substitute Vincent Aboubakar swept in the winner two minutes from time, flicking the...