Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has been ignored by CAF for the Men's Coach of the year despite the progress of the Black Stars in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign.The Ghanaian gaffer has been overlooked in what appears an assessment of his reign in the year under review.The Black Stars only put their qualifying campaign for Cameroon 2019 back on track after a hard-fought 2-1 win over Ethiopia two weeks ago.Mauritanian Corentin Martins, Florent Ibenge of AS Vita,
Ghanaian youngster Joseph Painstil could not make the shortlist for the Africa Youth Player of the year award. The KRC Genk forward has been outstanding for his club this season but was ignored by the technical department of the Confederation of African Football in charge of the nominations.Painstil, after an impressive campaign with Finish side Ferencvarosi joined Genk in the summer and has already bagged two goals in 11 appearance in the Belgium pro league.Last night, the 20
Trio Abdulai Mukarama, Elizabeth Addo and Portia Boakye are among the preliminary 15-man list for the 2018 Women's African Player of the Year. Mukarama has been given a look after enchanted all with her goal scoring exploits at the ongoing FIFA U17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay.The Northern Ladies player is set to win the Top scorer award banging in seven goals in four matches and also scored 12 goals in the qualifiers.But faces stiffer opposition from senior internationals
Ghana’s senior national women’s team, Black Queens have been shortlisted by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) best Women's National Team of the Year for 2018.The continent's football governing body deemed it fit to shortlist Queens despite their poor outing at the ongoing African Women’s Nations Cup, where the team led by Bashir Hayford were knocked out in the group stage.The team's elimination means they have missed out on a place for next year's
Banyana Bayana vice captain Refiloe Jane will miss the final of the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations against Nigeria on Saturday, 1 December due to club commitments. Jane, who played all the matches at the tournament, left for Australia to return to her new club Canberra United after helping South Africa qualify for their first ever FIFA Women’s World Cup finals.She believes her absence will not be felt as Banyana Banyana have enough qualify to win the trophy for the first
Chairman of Kariobangi Sharks Robert Maoga has called on the supporters of Hearts Of Oak to support the Sharks when they face with Asante Kotoko in the CAF Confederation Cup.The Porcupine Warriors likely opponent is confident of qualifying to the 1/16 stage of the CAF inter-club competition after thrashing Arta Solar FC of Djibouti 6-1 in the first leg of the preliminaryKenya's top flight side look forward to finishing the job in the second leg on 4th December at the Stade
Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey is the only Ghanaian player included in the nominees for the 2018 African Player of the Year award.CAF announced a list of 34 players nominated for the prestigious award on Friday morning.Egypt's Mohamed Salah, holder of the award is in the list.Sadio Mane, Kalidou Koulibaly, Riyad Mahrez, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang amongst others are included in the released.The number will be pruned before the awards ceremony in Dakar, Senegal in January,
New York City FC have declined to exercise contract options for Ebenezer Ofori and Kwame Awuah after releasing the duo from their 2019 Major League Soccer roster.Ofori joined the Yankee Stadium outfit from German Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart in February this year with an option to buy but he will return to his parent club despite making 27 league appearances scoring one goal.Meanwhile, Awuah who joined the side in 2017 has also suffered the same fate as his compatriot after spending
New York City FC have declined to exercise contract options for Ebenezer Ofori and Kwame Awuah after releasing the duo from their 2019 Major League Soccer roster.Ofori joined the Yankee Stadium outfit from German Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart in February this year with an option to buy but he will return to his parent club despite making 27 league appearances scoring one goal.Meanwhile, Awuah who joined the side in 2017 has also suffered the same fate as his compatriot after spending
CAF has finalized the nominees for the various categories of the 2018 Awards,the continent's football governing body announced on Friday.Thirty-four (34) players and 15 women players have been nominated for the flagship awards; Player of the Year and Women’s Player of the Year based on the performance of the players during the year.The winners for the African Player of the Year and Women’s Player of the Year will be decided by the following: CAF Technical & Development
Former England defender Sol Campbell has taken his first job in management with League Two's bottom side Macclesfield Town.The former England, Tottenham and Arsenal defender has signed an 18-month deal with the Silkmen, who have been looking for a new boss since the departure of Mark Yates last month and sit seven points adrift of safety.Campbell was pictured at the club's Moss Rose ground on Tuesday morning, and a couple of hours later Town tweeted a picture of a bottle
Ghanaian striker Dauda Mohammed failed to register his name on the scoresheet on his debut UEFA Europa League start for RSC Anderlecht as they were held to a goalless draw by Spartak Trvana on Thursday night.The Belgian giants have endured a difficult period in Europe's second-tier club competition after picking just a point from four games prior to Thursday's encounter against the Slovakian champions.The Purple and White lads were hoping to bring some joy to their teeming
Former Crystal Palace forward Ian Wright says Jordan Ayew is not enthused about scoring hence they should hope Christian Benteke recovers quickly from injury to help solve their goalscoring woes.Benteke underwent a knee surgery in September and is expected to return in January.In the absence of the big Belgian forward, the Eagles have struggled to hit the target as Jordan Ayew and Alexander Sorloth have been in pale shadows of themselves.Roy Hodgson's men have largely relied
Ghanaian forward Joseph Paintsil scored his debut goal for KRC Genk in their 2-2 draw with Malmo FF in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday evening.Genk got their noses in-front three minutes to the end of the first half through Spanish forward Alejandro Pozuelo to silence the home fans at the Swedbank Stadion.The Belgian side were handed a cushioning in the 53rd minute courtesy Joseph Paintsil. Paintsil was set free in the area by Alejandro Pozuelo and the Ghanaian made no mistake
Former São Toméan Football Association (FSF) president Manuel Dêndê has been handed a for four year from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level.The decision was taken by adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee.The adjudicatory chamber found Mr Dêndê guilty of having violated art. 21 (Bribery and corruption) and art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts or other benefits) of the FIFA Code of
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