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Cape Coast Mysterious Ebusua Dwarfs has had an underwhelming campaign in the 2019/20 Ghana Premier league struggling to make an impression.

Management has officially released six players out of the team. List includes goakeeper Stephen Awere,Jacob Arpretwum, Isaac Donkor, Osei Afriyie, Emmanuel Owusu, Bokuo Hayford .The purpose of this exercise was to give way for new advent. The Abontoa Bontoa club have played 15 games this season amasing only 15 points and dwelling 16th on the league table.

Ernest Thompson was appointed after Robert Asibu resigned, they seemed to have turned the mood around but the transformation hasn’t brought enough wins to the club. This break could be a blessing in disguise for Dwarfs to resume the league stronger than before.

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Ghanaian international Ropapa Kwamena Mensah has donated some items to the people of Cape Coast municipality in his quest to help conquer the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.

Items includes veronica buckets, bowls, alcohol base sanitizers among others. Ropapa currently plies his trade for Pittsburgh Riverhounds Sc in the USL championship in the United States. The 22 year old has been in scintillating form for the club. So far has made 29 appearances and netted 7 times and 3 assist with an average ratio of 0.45 goals per 90 minutes.

The former International Allies player used this opportunity to touch base with his fans in cape coast. He further caution them to stay home and abide by all directives by the president, it is the only way to fight this battle, He Said.

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Accra Hearts of oak former midfielder Erick Nyarko has picked both Bernard Don Bortey and Charles Taylor as his best players ever to grace the green field.

Fans, journalist and football people have argued who’s the greatest? But Erick says each has their own qualities. For speed and set pieces Bortey stands tall and for dribbling and speed with the ball he will stick his neck out for Taylor.

The veteran midfielder played for the rainbow team from 2003 to 2009 winning the Ghana Premier league once with them before leaving for Israel. He is currently a free agent looking forward to reunite with any local club when the league resumes after the coronavirus outbreak. Nyarkoh was part of the phobian team that won the confederation cup against arch rivals Asante kotoko in 2005.

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We are all aware of the unbelievable problems the Covid-19 pandemic is causing which has brought the whole world to it knees. A lot is said about celebrities contributing their bit to help eliminate the spread of the virus. Musician and songwriter AUNTY GH and her management team couldn’t stand aloof instead join the race by presenting some alcohol base sanitizers to radio stations in cape coast.
The reigning central region best female vocalist has eight songs to her credit. The likes of best in me, make mama proud become a household tune in many homes.
It is always a privilege to offer my support in times like this, I will use this opportunity to reiterate what the president has said, let observe all preventive protocols because I know corona will die and we shall all live again. She also assured her bevy fans of many hit to come so they should remain adherent.

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Three times African player of the year Abedi Pele pays a heartfelt tribute to former Olympic Marseille president Papa Diouf.

Ghanaian legend Abedi Pele was one of the great players in the history of the Marseille team and was very instrumental in the club’s champions league triumph against A.c. Milan in 1993. He also managed three league tittles. Abedi recounted Papa Diouf was like a father to him and played a key role in his career.

Papa Diouf was a former president for lig one side Olympic Marseille who died from the novel outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. The Senegalese was a former journalist who writes for one of the biggest news papers in Marseille.

Pele said after their champions final in 1993 against A.C Milan Papa approached him and said you are the “black maradona ” because I won the best player award of that game. The father of Jordan and Andre Ayew admitted it a difficult time for him. However Diouf was like everything to him. He had such a great personality and loved by many. Africa will always miss him.

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Ghanaian international Rashid Sumaila has join the fight against the spread the Covid-19 by donating some items to the people of his community in central region. Items includes veronica buckets, liquid soaps, alcohol base sanitizers etc.

The former Ebusua Dwarfs defender currently plies his trade with Al-Qadsia Fc in Kuwait league. He has been in fine form since joining the club from Red Star Belgrade.

The 27 year old who hails from Adisadel a suburb in cape coast said it is always a privilege for him to offer his support in times like this and advice the community people to adhere to the preventive protocols to help eliminate this virus completely.

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Accra Hearts of Oak CEO Frederick Moore has made some interesting revelation on how the club will be recruiting new players should the league resume.

The club’s CEO said his outfit will ensure they will use modern ways to recruit new players. On Angel fm the astute businessman announced that the technical team will make their recommendation through the managing director to the board, where they will have a thorough evaluation as to the need available.

Mr Moore also maintained he prefer the silent mode of recruiting new players instead of making so much noise which normally triggers rise in price. He however assured the fans that management will employ all possible means to sign new players after acquiring the services of Nigerian midfielder Abdourahame Mamane Lawali.

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Francis Oti Akenteng leaves office as the technical director of the Ghana football association after fourteen years of service.

Mr Akenteng has chalked a lot of success since his appointment in 2006. Notable was overseeing the Blackstar of Ghana to three consecutive world cups, and Black Satellite of Ghana winning gold in u-20 world cup in Egypt and also saw massive transformation in our women’s national teams. His astute leadership saw him work in various capacities at CAF been the technical instructor for clubs and offered a consultancy service as well.

GFA is currently looking for his successor. The likes of Masud Didi Dramani, Coach Edusei has popped up as potential candidate.

He also said though he’s no more in office but his doors are always open to offer his experience in developing Ghana football.

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Total CAF Champions league is the the continent flagship tournament. This years competition had all the 8 clubs all former winners.

Zamalek booked their place in the 2019/20 CAF Champions league after beating defending champions Esperance du Tunis on Friday on a 2-1 aggregate.

In other games Raja Casablanca also advanced to the next stage of the competition despite losing 1-0 to Tp Mazembe in Congo. The Moroccan side won on a 2-1 aggregate after winning the first leg 2-0.

Elsewhere South Africa side Mamelodi Sundowns were crusshed out of the CAF Champions league after losing 3-1 on aggregate to Egyptian giants Al Ahly. The Brazilians drew 1-1 with Ahly in the second leg but have already lost 2-0 in the first leg in Egypt last week.

Also Etoile du Sahel win 1-0 at the Olympic stadium in Rades on Saturday night but the result was not enough to overturn the 2-0 deficit from the first leg in Morocco last weekend against WAC.

In the semi finals, WAC will come up with Al Ahly and zamalek take of Raja Casablanca on 1st and 8th of May for both first and second leg respectively.

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Football superstar Ronaldinho and his brother Roberto Assis have been arrested in Paraguay for attempting to enter the country with false documents on last Wednesday. The pair who are also business partners told the Paraguayan police those documents were given to them by a friend as a gesture, however the prosecutor said the two brothers had been tricked and deny wrong doing. At the court in Asuncion on Saturday the judge ordered that Ronaldinho and his brother be placed in pre trial detention.

The pair were expected to travel to Paraguay to promote a book and campaign for underprivileged children.

The 39 year old was named the world best player in 2004-2005 by FiFa, he also won the UEFA champions league with Barcelona in 2006 and also won the world cup with Brazil in 2002.