Black Stars head coach CK Akonnor has released home based players to their clubs ahead of this weekend’s Ghana Premier League matches. Gladson Awako will join the Great Olympics team to face Hearts of Oak in the Manste Derby on Sunday 6 June 2021 at the Accra Sports Stadium. Central defender Abdul Ganiu Ismail and … Read more
The Ghana Football Association rejected Charles Akonnor’s choice of ex-international Laryea Kingston and West African Football Academy coach Prosper Ogum Nartey as his assistants. The country’s leading football website, GHANAsoccernet.com sleuth hounding indicate the former Ghana captain opted for Kingston or Nartey as his preferred choice for an assistant role. However, the Ghana FA rejected … Read more
Former Black Stars assistant coach Ibrahim Tanko says player discipline is the key to ending Ghana’s AFCON trophy drought. The Black Stars last won the tournament in 1982 in Libya and have come close to winning it on three occasions in 1992, 2010, and 2015. Next year’s tournament in Cameroon will be 40 years that … Read more
Ghana coach Charles Kwablan Akonnor has named a 30-man squad for the upcoming friendlies against Morocco and Ivory Coast next month. Akonnor’s squad is a mix of both experienced and new players invited during the AFCON qualifiers in March. The Black Stars will take on the Atlas Lions of Morocco in the first friendly in … Read more
Black Stars head coach CK Akonnor will announce his squad for two friendly matches next month in place of the rescheduled 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Ghana was supposed to begin their World Cup qualifications campaign in June against Ethiopia and South Africa but CAF has postponed the two games to September 2021. The Ghana … Read more
Former Ghana international and 1978 AFCON winner Mohammed Polo has charged coach C.K Akonnor to end the country’s Nations Cup drought next year. The Black Stars have not won the continental title since 1982, and will head to Cameroon next year with the aim of ending the 40-year drought. “He has to assemble players who … Read more
Black Stars coach Charles Kwablan Akonnor has paid tribute to former boss Kwesi Appiah after ending the 2021 AFCON qualifiers in style with victory over São Tomé & Principe. Akonnor succeeded Appiah as Ghana coach in January 2020, having worked as his assistant at the start of the qualifiers in November 2019. After Ghana’s comfortable … Read more
Ghana’s Sports Ministry has not paid Black Stars coach Charles Akonnor Akonnor for a year, according to ghanasoccernet.com report. Despite finishing the Nations Cup Qualifiers on a high note, drawing in South Africa and beating São Tomé in Accra, the gaffer is yet to receive a penny in salary for the past 12 months. Charles … Read more
Ghana coach Charles Akonnor has been sharing his thoughts on his side’s 1-1 draw against South Africa in a penultimate Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa. Two goals in the second half from Ajax midfielder Mohammed Kudus and Percy Tau ensured the two teams shared the spoils at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. … Read more
Black Stars coach Charles Akonnor has set his sights on securing qualification to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations against South Africa. Ahead of the match in Johannesburg, Akonnor says his target is to qualify in South Africa before the Black Stars’ final qualifier against Sao Tome and Principe. Ghana currently leads the group with … Read more