Ghana Sports news

Ghana international Mubarak Wakaso and his wife are celebrating the birth of their new baby boy GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm.

The couple welcomed the bouncing baby boy on Friday morning in Spain where Mrs. Wakaso has been for some time now.

Wakaso seems to be having the best of days after he recently sealed a good move to Greek giants Panathinaikos after spending a loan spell with Las Palmas in Spain last season.

 

The energetic midfielder has played for Espanyol, Celtic, Villarreal and Rubin Kazan all in the past.

 

Stephen Keshi, the former Nigeria captain and manager, was buried on Friday in his country house at Ilah, in Nigeria's Delta State.

Keshi won the Africa Cup of Nations as both captain (in 1994) and manager of the Super Eagles (in 2013).

Blacks Stars left back Baba Abdul Rahman is set for a medical at Schalke 04 as he looks to sign a long season loan deal with the club.

Former South Africa coach, Gordon Igesund will likely be appointed as coach of Zambia.

Former Nigerian player and coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi shall be laid to rest today in his Illah, hometown.

The 54-year-old succumbed to death on June 8, in Benin City with claims his wife’s death a few years earlier devastated him so much he just followed her to the grave.

FIFA secretary-general Fatma Samoura says the years she spent working in war zones for the United Nations have prepared her for her new job.

West Ham are set to complete the signing of Swansea City star Andre Ayew for £16million, a year after they could have landed him for free.

Andre Ayew extended his scoring run in pre-season as he netted the opener in Swansea City’s 3-0 win at Swindon Town on Wednesday.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko suffered another league defeat after last-placed New Edubiase pipped them 2-1 at the Bekwai Gyamfi Park.

Leicester City have turned down West Bromich Albion's £9million initial bid for Ghana international Jeffrey Schlupp.

The suspended Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, says she will not attend the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics because she does not want to take a secondary position in the Maracana stadium.

Ghana needs $600,000 in order to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games which is scheduled to take off in the Brazilian city of Rio on August 5.

The supposed feud between Sports Minister Nii Lantey Vanderpuye and the Kwesi Nyantakyi led Ghana Football Association (GFA) continues unabated as the minister has implied he refused to indulge in underhand dealings prompted by some GFA officers.

President of world football governing body ‎(FIFA), Gianni Infantino, has said that he will‎ propose two more teams to come from Africa whenever the world football decides to increase the number of countries to participate in future World Cup tournaments.

League leaders Accra Hearts of Oak came from behind draw 1-1 with Kumasi Asante Kotoko at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.

The Black Satellites have failed to beat Senegal’s Young Lions of Teranga and missed the boat sailing to the 2017 African Youth Championship.

Ghana’s Black Queens and Nigeria’s Super Falcons are two soccer power houses on the continent but a recent friendly scoreline proved embarrassing for the Queens.

Reports from England pencil Sam Allardyce as the new coach of its national football team after a poor showing at Euro 2016 effectively ended the tenure of Roy Hodgson.

Appeals by Russian track and field athletes to be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics have been denied by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).

League leaders, Accra Hearts of Oak kept top spot with a 1-0 home victory over Berekum Chelsea.

Although Manchester United’s desire to have Juventus player Paul Pogba has hit a snug over the fee to be pain, manager Jose Mourinho wants the deal to be wrapped up.

Boxer and comic Braimah Kamoko a.k.a. Bukom Banku made a startling revelation on Sunday night at the Bukom Square in Accra when he submitted he has been sexually involved with his sister.

Former Paris Saint Germain coach, Paul Le Guen has reportedly rejected an offer to become the Technical Adviser of Nigeria's Super Eagles.

Accra Hearts of moved to the top of the league table Cosmos Dauda’s lone goal for Hearts of Oak ensured the Phobians won 1-0 against Sekondi Hasaacas at the Essipong Stadium.

Ghana's only representative in Africa, Medeama SC, held Tanzania'sYoung Africans to a 1-1 draw on Saturday at the Der Es Salaam Sports Stadium in a CAF Confederation Cup Group A clash.

Players of German side, Borussia Dortmund will travel in style after the club got its very own private jet.

Reports suggest Portugal and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is seeking the services of horse placenta healer Marijana Kovacevic for a speedy recovery.

The Tetteh Quarshie Hospital in the Eastern region was the recipient health care unit which attended to nine players of Kpando Heart of Lions, the Volta region based football club when the bus they were travelling on encountered a mishap.