Tag Archives: PLAYERS

Ballon d’Or: Which African players ever received a vote?

To date, the only African player to ever win the Ballon d’Or, Weah clinched the award in 1995—the first year that the prize was opened to non-European players. In that year, he defeated Jurgen Klinsmann—in second place—by 144 votes to 108, and would also pick up 13 votes the year …

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17 untouchable players that cannot be dropped from Ghana’s World Cup squad

The Black Stars’ head coach is set to present a 35-man provisional squad to FIFA in the final week of October 2022. The provisional list will be trimmed to 26 a week before the start of the competition in Qatar. This would mean that any player who misses out on …

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Seven Barcelona Players Who Are Currently Injured and Aren’t Available For Selection This Weekend

Barcelona are currently suffering injuring crises as most of their players who went to represent their country in the international competition, retuned the club with injury.As it stands now, Barcelona would be playing against Mallorca without seven players. Some of these players will be injured for a very long time, …

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Five players likely to be dropped from Ghana’s squad for 2022 World Cup

Of the 28 players that represented Ghana in the games against Brazil and Nicaragua, 70% of them will be in the squad for the 2022 World Cup, Black Stars coach Otto Addo has said. The disclosure by Otto Addo means that some of the players will not be on the Black Stars plane to …

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Yvonne Nelson apologizes to Stephen Appiah and other former Black Stars players

Actress, Yvonne Nelson has apologized to Stephen Appiah and former Black Stars players. In a post on Twitter, sighted by Zionfelix.net, Yvonne apologized on behalf of Ghanaians for how they insulted them. According to her, it is obvious they were the greatest crop of footballers the nation ever had. She stressed that Ghanaians are sorry for …

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Know the nicknames of the new Black Stars players

The Black Stars squad, who are currently training in France, have five new faces. Inaki Willaims, Mohammed Salisu, Tariq Lamptey, Stephan Ambrosius, and Ransford Yeboah are the new comers. To ensure that the new faces get along well and integrate smoothly, the old lads have given the new players nicknames to make …

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How Kwame Nkrumah motivated Black Stars players to win two AFCON titles

Back in the day when Dr Kwame Nkrumah ruled as president of Ghana, he ensured that the national senior football team, Black Stars had all the needed motivation and morale for every match they played on the continent especially the African Cup of Nations (AFCON). According to Ghanaian football legend, Reverend Kofi Pare, the …

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Wakaso, Ati Zig, 9 other players who were dropped from latest Ghana squad

Black Stars head coach, Otto Addo has reduced his squad for the upcoming international break in comparison to his previous selection for the 2023 African Cup of Nations qualifiers in May 2022. When compared to his previous 33-man squad for the qualifiers, the German-based tactician reduced the number by four and …

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2022 World Cup: Sack three players, make Partey captain – Prophet tells GFA

Apostle Richard Kwame Owusu, the founder of Jelem Chapel International, has prophesied that Ghana will win the 2022 FIFA World Cup if Thomas Partey is named captain and three long-serving players are dropped from the squad. Apostle Owusu failed to name the three players who should be committed but gave a clue …

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