Hearts Of Oak attacker, Daniel Afriyie Barnieh is set to miss their game against Great Olympics on Saturday after rejoining the National Under-20 camp in Prampram.
The Black Satellites of Ghana are currently preparing for next month’s U-20 Africa Cup of Nations tournament slated for Mauritania from February 14 to March 4, 2021.
Although Barnier is yet to score for the Phobians in the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League, he has always been named in the starting eleven of Kosta Papic’s team.
The 18-year-old was instrumental in the success story of coach Karim Zito’s side, captioning them to win the recently held U-20 WAFU Zone B Cup of Nations in Benin. He levelled in the comeback win over Burkina Faso in the final.
Ghana’s Kamal Issah has completed a winter transfer move to Ankara Keçiörengücü in the Turkish second-tier.
The defensive midfielder, 28, joins from Istanbulspor where he played for only one year.
In the ongoing 2020/21 season, Kamal managed to combine 437 minutes of game time from 11 appearances in the league and cup competitions, scoring twice.
His lack of enough minutes propelled the move to the Ankara-based club.
Ankara Keçiörengücü, on Tuesday, announced signing the former Liberty Professionals trainee on a one-and-a-half-year contract, ending June 30, 2022.
The deal includes an option for a further year.
Ankara Keçiörengücü, who become Kamal Issah’s 7th club since his transfer to Europe from Liberty to Stade Rennais in 2010, lie in the TFF 1st Lig table.
Midfielder Gladson Awako has revealed that he chose Great Olympics to avoid pressure.
Awako has been extraordinary for the Wonder Club since he returned to the domestic league before the commencement of the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League.
He was named as best player for the month of December in the ongoing Ghana Premier League.
And the former Berekum Chelsea marksman in interview with the Graphic Sports noted he took the decision to join Olympics to avoid unnecessary pressure on himself.
“It was a very good decision to jdecided I finally decided to come back home,” Awako told the Graphic Sports.
“I wanted to come home to kick-start my career and needed to be with a club without pressure, and Olympics provided me with that.”
His experience in club football started in 2006 when he played for Wa All Stathe rs.
He later moved to Heart of Lions in 2008 where he spent two seasons and left for Spain on loan with Recreativo de Huelva in 2010.
Head of Medical Team at AshantiGold SC, Dr George Chidi has confirmed that captain Appiah MacCarthy will be out of action for at least 8 weeks following an injury he sustained.
McCarthy, according to the medical practitioner suffered Lateral Collateral Ligament injury during their match-day 10 Ghana Premier League game against Legon Cities on Friday, January 21, 2021, in Accra.
He lasted only 30 minutes in a game that the Miners suffered a 5-2 defeat.
“He can’t play next match after the examination its most likely he sustained lateral collateral ligament injury, am expecting to receive the MRI Scan by today but he could be out for 6 to 8 weeks, ” Dr George Chidi told Oyerepa FM.
The midfielder has been instrumental for the Obuasi based club, having scored three, and assisted in 2 other goals this campaign.
McCarthy’s absence is a big blow to the ambition of Ashantigold, who are now 5th on the Ghana Premier league table with 16 points.
He will miss their match week 11 encounter against Asante Kotoko on Sunday, January 30, 2021, at the Len Clay Stadium.
Ghana have been drawn in Group C of the 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) to be staged in Mauritania.
The tournament will be played between February 14 and March 4, 2021.
Two cities – Nouakchott and Nouadhibou – will be used to host the tournament.
Nouakchott will host two groups at Stade Olympique and Stade Cheikha Ould Boïdiya while matches in Nouadhibou will be played at Stade Municipal de Nouadhibou.
The Black Satellites – three times winners – in Monday’s draw conducted at Hilton Hotel in Yaoundé, were pitted alongside former champions Morocco, Gambia and Tanzania.
Coach Karim Zito’s side will kick off their campaign against Tanzania on February 16 before taking on Morocco and The Gambia on the 19th and 22nd respectively.
Hosts Mauritania are in Group A where they will face former champions Cameroon, Uganda and Mozambique.
Burkina Faso will play Tunisia, Namibia and Central African Republic in Group B.
This is the first time the U-20 Afcon has been expanded to 12 teams instead of the eight in previous tournaments.
Mauritania will play the opening match of the 12-team competition against Cameroon in Nouakchott on February 14.
Former Ghana international Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has urged Asante Kotoko to revive the club’s U-20 team.
“I think we need to revive the u20 of Asante Kotoko,” the FIFA U20 World Cup said in an interview on the Nabila Show.
Badu, who recently retired from Ghana’s national team, Black Stars after two years hiatus believes building a strong youth team will inculcate the culture of the club into the players.
“Kotoko is like Real Madrid; you can’t go for only youth players, but you need to have some of them, promote them to gain the experience and know the culture and character of Kotoko.” He continued.
“[If this is done successfully], youll have a good team each and every year,” Badu reckon.
Since Nana Yaw Amponsah was appointed Chief Executive Officer in August last year, he has set a focus on building a strong youth system.
Recently, the Porcupines signed a partnership agreement with Premier league side Southampton, with youth development being core of the relationship between the two parties.
The former Udinese midfielder is optimistic he will set the foundation for a youth team, but the current pressure from a section of supporters and media means he must build a formidable senior team to fight for laurels.
“I know the CEO [Nana Yaw Amponsah] who is a very good friend of mine has in mind to build a strong U20 team, but now there’s a lot of pressure on him. He needs to concentrate on the senior side, get the results and get some players to fit in,” he said.
Badu has offered to lead the search of young players for the next Asante Kotoko U-20 team.
The Ghana Football Association wishes to announce that the second window registration for the 2020/21 season will be opened from 00:01am on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 and close at exactly 11:59pm on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
However, the International Transfer Window and the Domestic Transfer Window will be opened from 00:01 on Friday, February 12 and close at exactly11:59 pm on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Clubs are to note that applications which do not meet the correct STANDARDS SHALL BE REJECTED rather than be queried as queries are for only minor corrections.
All clubs are to take note and transfer and register their players within these stated dates. Kindly note that there SHALL BE NO extension of the deadlines.
Kumasi Asante Kotoko has been ordered by the Players Status Committee (PSC) of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to make a total payment GH¢ 197,800 to four of it former players.
The players whose names are Abass Mohammed, Mathew Kelvin Andoh, Stephen Tetteh Aryiku and Evans Owusu petitioned the PSC on the Club’s unilateral termination of their contracts.
They therefore sough for the PSC to rule on the payment of their outstanding salaries and signing on fees.
PSC after sitting on the case has now ordered Kotoko to pay a total of GH¢ 197,800 in enticement fees and salaries to the aforementioned players.
Evans Owusu will receive GH¢ 26,000 (GH¢ 20,000 enticement fee + GH¢ 6,000 salary), Stephen Tetteh Ayiku will receive GH¢ 59,000 (GH¢ 50,000 enticement fee + GH¢ 9,000 salary).
Abass Mohammed will receive GH¢ 50,800 (GH¢ 40,000 enticement fee + GH¢ 10,800 salary), whiles Mathew Kelvin Andoh will receive GH¢ 62,000 (GH¢ 50,000 enticement fee + GH¢ 12,000 salary).
The amounts are to be paid within the next 14 days.
Below are the full decisions of the PSC on all four cases:
Felicity Asante’s hattrick has seen Berry Ladies FC move to the top of the league table with a 3-1 victory over Soccer Intellectuals at the Asassan Park in Ajumako on Sunday afternoon.
The host opened the scoring just 18minutes into the game from a spotkick through Adina Akpo.
The visitors equalized in the 27th minute when Felicity went past her marker, beating goalkeeper Amudiatu Alhassan to slot home her first of the afternoon.
Coach Mercy Tagoe’s side were dominant for the remainder of the first half with Felicity Asante getting her double in the 37th minute, sending the visitors into the end of the half with a 2-1 lead.
Berry Ladies star girl, Felicity Asante took her tally to 3 with a tap-in from a cross with few minutes to the end of the game. Monica Addai of Berry Ladies was shown the marching orders after receiving her second yellow card of the afternoon.
Goalkeeper Abigail Tawiah of Berry Ladies was named MoTM at the Asassan Park at the end of durations.
Soccer Intellectuals will visit Police Ladies in Accra on matchday 3 as Berry Ladies hosts Sea Lions at the Madina Astro turf.
A 73rd-minute strike by Samuel Bioh handed Aduana Stars all three points against Asante Kotoko at the Accra Sports Stadium in a match-day10 encounter of the Ghana Premier League.
It is the first time Aduana Stars have secured a win over the Porcupine Warriors in an away game.
