Former Tema Youth star Joseph Paintsil was named in the team of the week in the NB League in Hungary after a stupendous debut performance for his new side Ferencvarosi. The former Ghana Premier League sensation carried on his scoring form to his new club opening his scoring account in his first game for the side. Paintsil scored a 31st minute equalizer against Vansas in week 8 of the Hungarian League. Ferencvarosi conceded an early goal in the 13th minute with a volley from

Nigeria coach Salisu Yusuf is confident his troops can dispatch Mali ahead of their WAFU Cup clash on Thursday. The Eagles beat Sierra Leone 3-1 on Monday to set-up an exthralling fixture against their Malian counterpart in Cape Coast. Coach Yusuf watched Mali beat Mauritania and he said he was impressed with their size, strength and aggression, but he believes his team will use their intelligence to go past the Eagles of Bamako. We watched Mali beat Mauritania before our own game against

Black Stars B coach Maxwell Konadu has named his squad for the WAFU Cup encounter against Syli nationale of Guinea at the Cape Coast Stadium. Winful Cobbinah, who conspicuously warmed the bench in the preliminary round victory against the Scorpions of Gambia, returns to the starting line up after incessant attacks on coach Maxwell Konadu following the team's abysmal performance. Joseph Addo maintains his position in between the sticks ahead of Felix Annan, and will be marshalled by Amos

Ghana's government will fly supporters to India ahead of the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Sports minister Isaac Asiamah has revealed. The young minister says his outfit is seeking for sponsorship from the corp0rate industry to fly local fans to the Asian country. If there should be any organisation for supporters which may happen this time round for them to go and cheer them up in India, we will ask them to come together under one elephant. Yes they should come together," he said When

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has jumped to the defence of estranged free agent Sulley Muntari after he was reportedly detained by the police and his expensive Mercedes Amg G63 seized for failing to pay his monthly installments on the vehicle he hire purchased. Reports were rife in the Spanish media in the early hours of Tuesday, which went viral in Italy and Ghana that the superstar had been arrested with his vehicle impounded over big money problems with his former agent according to sports.es.

The Ghana FA has rubbished claims by one Nana Osei that he is the physical trainer of Black Starlets, revealing that no one with such a post has been appointed to join the country's U17 side. Osei claimed on Wednesday that he was left out of the squad heading for the World Cup training tour of the UAE at the instance of the GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi. However the GFA has denied that the bulky figure is part of its U17 technical team insisting no such appointment has been made by the

Aston Villas disappointing start to the Championship season continued as they were held to a 0-0 draw by 10-man Middlesbrough at Villa Park on Tuesday night, and Villa fans dont understand why Albert Adomah isnt starting matches. The winger was a regular for the Midlands outfit last season but he has struggled for game time so far this term he has featured for just 117 minutes in the league and was once again named on the substitutes bench for the visit of Boro, with Birkir Bjarnason and new

The 2017 Tertiary Football League is expected to be the hunting ground for Premier League clubs as well as the various national teams. Twelve (12) tertiary institution housed in two zones - Northern and Southern, will engage each other in a marathon 10-week period between September and November this year. Already the signs are clearly on the walls for some of the best talents in the tertiary institutions to showcase their immense quality to the rest of the world. Several high-profile players

Ghana U17 national team has arrived in the UAE city of Abu Dhabi to start their final preparation for the U17 World Cup. The Black Starlets left Accra on Wednesday night for the capital city of the United Arab Emirates for the training camp ahead of the tournament in India next month. The team checked in at the Park Inn Hotel as they start their final intensive training. A total of 25 players made the trip to Abu Dhabi to step up preparations after which the team would be cut to 21 for

Former Asante Kotoko SC striker Seidu Bancey has moved to Ethiopian top-flight side Arba Minch Kenema FC, GHANASoccernet.com can exclusively confirm. The 27 year old signed a two-year contract with Egyptian Premier club Smouha Sporting Club in September 2014, but mutually agreed to terminate the contract, due to the situation in Egypt. He joined Asante Kotoko SC in 2012 from Ebusua Dwarfs. He becomes the sixth Ghanaian player to join the Ethiopian Premier League after Abdul Latif Mohammed,

Floodlit stadiums, adoring fans and huge salaries following in the footsteps of transfer-record breaking football superstars such as Neymar and Kylian Mbapp and playing for one of Europes leading clubs is the dream of every young player worldwide. But beneath the big money headlines is an underbelly of exploitation of youngsters from developing nations, experts say. Countless boys in West Africa enrol in football academies, giving up on an education and splashing the family savings in their quest

Ghana winger Christian Atsu has missed out on Newcastle United's Player of the Month award for August. The award, voted for by Newcastle fans, was won by Mikel Merino who polled 45% of the votes. Ciaran Clark was also in contention for the award. Merino, on a season-long loan move from Borussia Dortmund, will be presented with his trophy ahead of Saturday's game against Stoke City....

FIFA has agreed to pay a minimum of R5 million ($380,000) to the South Africa Football Association (Safa) to cover the costs of the tainted 2018 World Cup qualifier that the world football governing body has asked Bafana Bafana to replay in November. Bafana beat the Senegalese 2-1 in Polokwane in November 2016 but the result has since been tainted after referee Joseph Lamptey was found to have manipulated the outcome of the encounter. The controversial Ghanaian official received a lifetime

Ghana dropped out of the FIFA top fifty rankings to now occupy the 52nd place on Thursday despite the successes of the Black Stars in the two matches played within the month considered by the world governing. The Black Stars were triumphantin their last two World Cup qualifying matches against Congo in Kumasi and Brazzaville but that has not paid off in the latest Fifa rankings announced on Thursday. The Black Stars got four points out of the possible six yet they have dropped to their lowest

Ghana striker Abdul Majeed Waris is an injury doubt for Lorient ahead of the Lique 2 clash against Ajaccio on Friday. The 25-year-old has been working with the club's physiotherapist in a bid to gain fitness. The Ghana international missed the side's 3-2 win at Lens last weekend. And it appears he may not recover in time ahead of the home game against Ajaccio on Friday at theStade Yves Allainmat - Le Moustoir. Waris saw his move to English side Burnley collapsed on transfer day

Dutch-born Ghanaian defender Derrick Luckassen claims he has not taken on his international career on whether to represent Ghana or the Netherlands. The PSV Eindhoven centre back-cum defensive midfielder-has featured in all the junior national teams of the Netherlands from U18 to U21. But remains eligible to play for the Black Stars as a senior international. "I I know that I have Ghanaian roots.They talk more about me more often.At this point, I do not have to make a choice," he

Before Tuesday's game inRome, the 'run-run' aroundSimeone'slineupwas to know if the captain was going to play,Gabi. Most of the suppositions assumed that yes, that would play, and that therefore that would go to the bench would beThomas Partey(Accra, Ghana, 24 years).Gabi played, yes, for an hour, but who visited the bench was not Thomas, butCarrasco.It has been the third consecutive game of the African soccer player in the center of the field of Simeone, an overpopulated place

A former member of Fifa's Governance Committee has said there were 'serious allegations' concerning the election of Egypt's Hany Abo Rida to the Fifa Council in May. Abo Rida beat Cameroon's Zelkifli Ngoufonjaby 50 votes to 4 in a pollorganised by the Confederation of African Football (Caf). "(Ngoufonja) alleged that (Abo Rida) threw a party and flew in other delegations from the other federations," said Miguel Maduro. "If that is true, that would be a violation

Thomas Partey is Atltico's great revelationthis season. The Ghanaian has started the year at a high level and has earned Simeone's confidence.He has taken advantage of the gap left by Tiago after his retirement to assume theresponsibility of inheriting his dorsal, ask for passage and settle in the Cholo's eleven. Last Tuesday,against Roma, the midfielder made his third consecutive game as a starterafter doing so in Las Palmas and Valencia. It took several years to wait for this

Andre Ayewfound the net again on Monday asWest Ham United beat Huddersfield Town 2-0 to get their season off the mark, with the Ghana internationals consistency a genuine reason for optimism at the London Stadium. Ayews strikean effort from six yards in the 77th minutemay prove vital as the season wears on. Admittedly, the Irons already led through Pedro Obiangs deflected strike five minutes beforehandwith Ayew providing the assistbut Huddersfield enjoyed more of the possession on the day,