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Berekum Chelsea coach Asare Bediako has resigned from his position days after being promoted as the technical director of the club. 

Bediako, who led the side to third on the cancelled 2019-2020 Ghana Premier League, has left his Thursday.

He is reported to be unhappy due to the appointment of formerHearts Player Hesse Odamtem as the club’s new head coach.

According to reports, he feels his elevation as a technical director is a slap in his face, forcing him to quit his role.

The Bibiries announced Odamten as head coach on Tuesday.

Berekum Chelsea will play Legon Cities on match-day 1 in Accra when the season begins on November 13, 2020.

Asante Kotoko have released a short code for the club’s fans to select home and away kits for the upcoming season.

After announcing the Italian sportswear manufacturing giants, Errea as official technical partner for the next three years, the club released four designs for the fans to choose the team’s home and away kit for the upcoming football campaign.

Home kit

Two sample designs presented by Kotoko have the identity of the team and the culture of the Asante Kingdom.

One of the kits is designed with the 1971 and 1983 glory moments of the Porcupines.

“History, Tradition, Achievements and Legends of Asante Kotoko carefully coiled into this beautiful Design. This Concept celebrates our 85th Anniversary in style”

Again, the yellow, green and black colours of Asanteman have also been added to the sleeves of the jersey.

The other jersey is filled with traditional Adinkra symbols to again depict the tradition of Asanteman.

“Inspired by our rich Cultural Heritage. This design samples carefully selected rich and powerful Adinkra symbols that signifies Power, Authority and Leadership.”

Adinkra symbols are traditional symbols that represent the concepts or aphorisms of Asanteman.

Away kit

The Porcupine (noted in the emblem of the club) is well represented in one of the away designs.

“A design cue from the power of the porcupine quill attack. This concept shows the fearless power and might of Asante Kotoko.”

In the other white shirt, the colour ash features heavily.
Red is used for the sleeves and can also be seen in a few parts of the kit.

“Inspired by our new era of sports science and technology.This design is an artistic rendition of structures and systems working together to produce a homogeneous effect”

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Accra Hearts of Oak captain Fatawu Mohammed has said the new signings within the club can lift the morale of the team as it heads into the 2020-21 Ghana football season.

The capital club will be looking to end the trophy drought that has engulfed the side since the season of 2008-09 when the new season kicks off on the weekend of November 13-15.

Hearts will open the campaign with an away encounter against Aduana Stars at Dormaa and, the captain believes the new recruits can help lift morale in the team next season.

“We’ve got a few new arrivals in and that can maybe boost the morale of the squad and bring something different to Hearts of Oak next season”, Fatawu told Hearts News.

“Fresh faces are sometimes a good thing, it can change completely the mood of a squad and, I am positive that our new arrivals will bring that good karma as we head into the new season”.

Hearts have been undergoing our preseason formalities as Coach Odoom and the technical team prepares the boys for the task of winning next season’s Ghana Premier League (GPL) title.

The club has signed former player Nuru Sulley, striker Abednego Tetteh, Isaac Mensah, Eric Dizan, Danjumah Kuti, Mamane Lawali and are on the lookout to bolster the squad with others ahead of the new season.

And the captain believes they can play a positive role in the quest to win silverware next season as they come in with their own individual aspirations.

“These players have come in with their own ambitions and coupled with that of the team, I believe we will all work hard towards achieving that dream of success at the end of the campaign”.

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Ambitious Ghana second tier side Accra Lions Football Club (ALFC) have signed a massive sponsorship deal with digital payments outfit ALEXpay ahead of the start of the season.

The Abokobi-based side sealed the deal on Wednesday to become one of the few sides in the Division League to attract commercial sponsorship.

The global digital payments company ALEXpay will become the new headline sponsor for the 2020-21 season.

ALFC have run their club as a professional outfit with serious branding and marketing approach which is attracting serious commercial interest.

The financial details of the agreement was not revealed but ALEXpay will benefit from the club’s branding activities this season.

To launch the new partnership, ALEXpay branding will feature on ALFC’s new collection of Puma apparel with immediate effect.

“We’re delighted to partner with ALEXpay as they share our ambitions and values. We look forward to building on a special relationship with one of the fastest growing companies in Ghana, Ishmael Hamidu, Team Manager of ALFC said on Wednesday at the unveiling of the sponsorship agreement.

Moses Kanduri, Co-founder of ALEXpay added: “We are proud to be one of the partners of Accra Lions FC. We believe in soccer as a tool to providing young people with signals of hope for a better future hence our support for ALFC.

“Just as football connects talents for young Africans, ALEXpay’s aim is to ensure all Africans are financially included and connected to one another. We therefore see this partnership as the base to building a sustainable Africa.”

ALFC is widely seen as one of the serious clubs in Ghana, having taken club administration to another level with a professional approach even though they are in the second tier.

This is what has led to companies like ALEXpay seeking to associate with the ALFC brand to gain some traction from the football market.

ALEXpay is a digital payment platform that integrates all the segmented telco-based mobile money service platforms to provide a reliable national switch for all mobile money transactions in Ghana.

Their cross-network transaction capability and interconnect clearing interchange functionality enables ALEXpay to provide a wide range of financial solutions including scaling up the mobile money service platform, integrating mobile money and traditional banking transactions, linking accounts to physical payment cards, crowdfunding for social and individual projects, assisting merchants with processing card based transactions, and accommodating foreign remittances.

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Asante Kotoko have augmented their goalkeeping unit with the acquisition of free agent Razak Abalora.

The Porcupine Warriors on Tuesday announced the signing of the former West African Football Academy SC goalkeeper, Razak Abalora on a three-year deal ahead of the upcoming season.

Kotoko goalkeeping department comprises SWAG local player of the year 2019, Felix Annan, Black Meteors goalie Kwame Baah and Black Satellites goalie Ibrahim Danlad and Osei Kwame who recently underwent a successful surgery.

There have been mixed reactions from the supporters of the club as some felt they do not have problems with regard to the goalkeeping department while others lauded the management for the decision.

Football pundits have also criticised the capture of the Black Stars goalie. They indicated that the club already have three national teams goalkeepers and Abalora’s arrival could end up their call-ups since some may lack playing time.

Communications Manager of the Porcupines, Moses Antwi Benefo in an interview disclosed why the club signed Abalora.

According to him, Abalora’s signing will enhance an already Kotoko’s goalkeeping department. He added that his outfit will be competing in many competitions and they are preparing themselves for any eventualities. 

“First of all, we should remember that Kotoko will be playing in the CAF Champions League, Ghana Premier League and the FA Cup and if people will remember we said we if we are going to Africa we would need a CHAN-like (African Nations Championship) team of Ghana to get to Africa,” he told Accra based Vision 1 FM.

“To get the CHAN-like team, there is the responsibility of assembling all the best players in Ghana in our team. With that squad if we get players from outside to beef up our team, it will help us to do well in Africa.” 

“So the process of parading a CHAN-like team in Ghana, that’s why we have in our camp national goalkeepers, Danlad Ibrahim (U-20), Kwame Baah (U-23) and two Black Stars goalkeepers (Felix Annan and Razak Abalora)”   

Kotoko will represent Ghana in next season’s Caf Champions League.