State Insurance gives trophy for SWAG match
Red Cross fun games on Saturday
Accra (Greater Accra)
25 April 2003 - Korle Gonno Saint Mirren on Wednesday routed visiting Achiampim
Stars of Ashaiman to 3-0 at the Indafa Park in their division two middle league
match.
Striker Nathaniel
Addo of Mirren fired a 35-metre shot in the seventh minute to open the
floodgates for his side's challenge for the first sport of the league table. In
the second half Mirren converted a 66th penalty to make their tally
two through Gabriel Yartey who put the ball at the blind side of the
goalkeeper. Randy Abbey buried the visitors in t he 69 minutes with a classic
shot to bring the final scores to 3-0.
In a related
development, the chairman of the New Town Stars F/C, Francis Nana Bentil, has
called on both old and new players of the club to resume training at Avenor
Park on Monday 28 April. He said the team is preparing for this year's division
two league due to start soon.
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Accra (Greater Accra)
25 April 2003 - The State Insurance Company of Ghana (SIC) on Thursday presented
a giant trophy to the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) to be
presented to the winner of this years SWAG match between Kumasi Asante Kotoko
and Dansoman Liberty Professionals scheduled for Sunday at the Accra Sports
Stadium.
The match which is a
two-leg event saw Kotoko winning the first leg by lone goal played at the
Kumasi Sports Stadium last week hence the return leg in Accra. Peter Osei-Duah
Managing Director of SIC who made the presentation, said the company has been
associated with sports development in the country for a long time and their
gesture is a sign of their continuous interest in sports.
He said they would
continue to support sports development in the country since results of matches
either boost or dampen the morale of Ghanaians. Osei-Duah said the company's
association with sports is not primarily aimed at projecting their image, but
" we see it as responsibility of all Ghanaians to help promote
sports."
"We would
continue to support sports development in the country in order to attract the
interest of other stakeholders", he added. Commenting on sponsorship, the
managing director said, they would take into consideration the appeal by SWAG
to increase their sponsorship package adding," something would be done
about it next year".
Ebow Quansah
president of SWAG received the trophy and thank the company for its support and
said the presentation is a sign of SIC's commitment to the development of
sports in the country especially football. The SWAG president said Ghana football
owes a lot to the company because it has contributed immensely to the sport.
Quansah called on SIC
to go back to the days when they employed sports men and women in the country
citing Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio as an example. On the match, Quansah said
"a good game should be expected following the declaration of liberty Coach
Jones Attuquayefio to annex the trophy" and urged all soccer fans to
attend the match.
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Accra (Greater Accra)
25 April 2003 - This year's Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) Fun games would be
held at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra on Saturday 25 April. Kofi Acquah,
President of the society who announced this at the launch of the games in Accra
on Thursday, said 22 institutions and corporate bodies are expected to take
part in the one-day games of Soccer, Tug-of-war, Athleltics and Ampe.
He named the
participants of the event, which is aimed at raising funds for the society's
activities as Maersk Ghana Limited, Ghana Water Company Limited, Electricity
Company of Ghana Limited, Dizengoff Ghana Limited and State Insurance Company
of Ghana Limited who are sponsoring the event.
Others are Fan Milk
Limited, Media Eleven, Ghana Oil Company, Multichoice Ghana Limited, AFGO,
Mobil Oil Ghana Limited, Unilever Ghana Limited, NTHC Holdings, and Radio Gold.
The rest are Ghacem
Limited, Planned nParenthood Associationn of Ghana, Enterprise Insurance
nCompany, Nestle Ghana Limited, Social Security and National Insurance Trust,
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Adom FM and Peace FM. Acquah called on other
corporate bodies, and institutions to come to the aid of the Association to
enable it execute its projects.
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Accra (Greater Accra)
25 April 2003 - About 100 golfers would assemble at the Achimota Golf Course in
Accra on Thursday, May 1, to vie for the May Day Price championship trophy.
Samuel Adetola,
Captain of the Achimota Golf Club, who announced this in Accra on Thursday,
said the competition, which forms part of activities marking the celebration of
this year's May Day, is also in memory of Michael Price, a senior member of the
Achimota Golf Club who died some 10 years ago.
The competition,
being sponsored by Mrs Clara Price, wife of the late Price, the competition is
open to golfers from Tema, Achimota, Celebrity and Bok Nam Kim golf clubs. The
President of the Achimota Golf Club, Dr Sydney Quartey will tees off at 0700
hours.
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Accra (Greater Accra)
25 April 2003 - Time constraints occasioned by a protracted legal battle has
compacted the 2003 soccer season into a seven-month programme.
That arrangement, as
agreed upon by the major players, includes the league, the FA Cup, activities
of the national teams particularly the Black Stars, the continental clubs
competitions, and possible outstanding games that will arise due to various
reasons. The 2003 Premier League is set to start on Sunday 11 May.
A programme drawn to
that effect is expected to end before 30 November, the deadline for submission
candidates for the three CAF-organised club competitions.
And that will mark
the end of weeks and months of uncertainty that has hanged over the start of
the programme since the GFA got entangled in a court case with Tudu Mighty Jets
last year.
At a consultative
meeting held last Wednesday, the management board of the GFA, the Professional
League Board (PLB), and the Premier League Clubs Association (GHALCA), and the
Premier League clubs agreed that the two-round league be contracted to enable
them meet the date for the submission of representatives to the continental
competitions.
That programme, if it
runs as scheduled, will travel between 11 May and Sunday 26 November by which
date the curtain will be lowered on both the league season and the FA Cup. That
in effect compacts the programme into weekend and midweek matches over
intermittent intervals over the period.
Yet, in between that
period, the clubs will vie for honours in the FA Cup competition, which has
been arranged to run concurrently with the league at a stage in the
competition.
According to the
programme, the Divisions One and Two clubs will start the FA Cup competition on
20 July at the 1/32 stage and will be joined by the Premier clubs at the 1/16
stage on 29 October with the final scheduled for Wednesday 26 November. Between
July and August, the league will run on weekends and midweek continuously.
According to
Sylvester Mensah, Chairman of the PLB, the meeting was necessitated by the need
for consensus among all the major players in the Premier League in order to
have a smooth running programme. He said in view of the delayed start of the
year’s programme, there is the need to reach that agreement with all
stakeholders to forestall the possibility of anyone throwing the programme
overboard.
Mensah said with the
decision so reached at the meeting, any club that acts contrary falls foul with
the law and would be dealt with accordingly. For example, he said, clubs
travelling out on international assignments are expected back within a time
frame to enable the programme to run as scheduled.
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