50 million cedis
seed money for TOP Four teams
50 million
cedis seed money for TOP Four teams
To begin with, the association
is to give each of the four participating clubs -Hearts, Kotoko,
Kodjo Fianoo,
Administrative Manager, said in
On the new date which has been
pushed forward from 9 - 23 February to the Fianoo
said it was to enable the clubs prepare adequately well to present a formidable
squad.
According to the fixtures copied
the GNA Sports, League Champions, Accra Hearts of Oak, play host to Liberty
Professionals at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday February 23 while Asante Kotoko clash with Great Olympics at the Kumasi
Sports Stadium.
On Saturday, March 1,
The final first round matches
expected to draw a partisan crowd, has been fixed for
March 9. The two most glamorous clubs - Hearts and Kotoko would face each other
in a duel of death at the Kumasi Sports Stadium while
The second round fixtures of the
competition scheduled to commence on 15 March would be the reverse of the first
round matches. The GHALCA Top Four competition was initiated to engage the best
top four teams at the end of the league season on a "who-is-who"
basis.
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Francis Kpesenu,
General Secretary of the GCA, told the GNA Sports in
The association gave up to last
Tuesday as its deadline; unfortunately two days after that tough decision, an
emissary sent a word to the general secretary that the competition has been
fixed for this Sunday, January 19.
Kpesenu said the notice was short;
taking into consideration the efforts that go into organising such an event.
The one-day competition is put together for selected African countries notably
Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Algeria in each year, is aimed at
exposing the experiences of top European cyclists to their African
counterparts.
It is also to tap the talents
from the Europeans to enrich that of the Africans. This year's programme
kick-started from
The six African-country Tour which features top cyclists from the Tour de
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In Sunyani Sampa
Frontiers beat Kintampo United 1-0 in a mid-week Zone
1B Division One League (DOL) match played at the Sunyani Coronation park on Wednesday. Centre-Forward Dauda
scored the lone goal in the first half.
The Kintampo
boys who last Sunday drew 1-1 with Berekum Pro-Sports
F/C at the same venue redoubled their efforts in the second half but the defenders
of Sampa would not yield till the final whistle. At Berekum, Sunyani Topsmore drew
one-all with Techiman Brong Kyempim
F/C in another league encounter.
In
Nana Amissah
increased the tally to 2-0 in the 55th minute but Bafana Bafana
managed to reduce the tally to 2-1 through substitute Richard Mensah in the 73rd
minute. Ebo Mends was on hand again to make it 3-1
for the fighters while Mensah scored the second for Bafana Bafana
on the stroke of full time.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 20 January
2003 - Dr Emmanuel Owusu Ansah, Acting Chief
Executive of the National Sports Council (NSC) has been appointed to head a
five-man committee tasked with the job of implementing recommendations by a
15-member committee put in place by the Edward Osei Kwaku
Minister of Youth and Sports last year to unearth the causes of the decline in
Ghana sports.
The committee has Abdullai Yakubu, Director at the
Ministry of Youth and Sports, Magnus Rex Danquah Managing Consultant of RICS,
Charles Aryeh, Public Relations Officer of the National Sports Council (NSC),
and Kofi Aggrey, Public Relations Officer Ministry of Youth and Sports as the
other members.
A statement issued in Accra and
signed by Kofi Aggrey, said the committee has been tasked to fashion within one
month a new sports bill that would reflect the vision, mission and the thrust
of the report submitted by the previous committee.
It said the committee is also to
conduct stakeholders meetings with the aim of sensitising the public and
soliciting the support and participation of all stakeholders in sports.
The committee would also educate
the public on proposed new structures including new modes of financing sports
in the country and would suggest requisite incentive schemes for consideration
of parliament to enhance greater corporate sponsorship of sports in
It would be recalled that,
Edward Osei-Kwaku Minister of Youth and Sport set up
a 15- member committee headed by Joe Aggrey Deputy Minister of Youth last year
to examine the causes of decline in the standard of sports in the country and
to make appropriate recommendations to address them.
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