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Sadio Mane wins CAF African Player of the Year award
Senegalese forward, Sadio Mane has been adjudged the 2022 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Africa Player of the Year for the second time having won it first in 2019.
Mane, who was in a top shape for his former club side, Liverpool FC and the Senegalese national team beat former teammate Mohammed Salah and Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy to pick the coveted trophy in the City of Rabat, Casablanca on Thursday night.
Having done what some former Senegalese players could not do, the forward led his country to win its first African Cup of Nations (AFCON) trophy and also to book a slot in the 2022 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament in Qatar.
The 30-year-old did not only show class for his national team, but helped Liverpool to win the FA Cup, Carabao Cup and reached the finals of the UEFA Champions League.
He scored 23 goals for Liverpool last season in all competitions, scoring 16 premier league goals in 34 appearances, five in the champions League and two goals in the FA Cup tournament.
He broke former Senegalese Striker Henri Camara’s record to become Senegal’s all time leading goal scorer in the just ended AFCON qualifiers with 33 goals to his credit.
The striker has now equaled former Senegalese striker, El Hadji Diouf’s record who won the award twice, 2001 and 2002.
This is a huge boost for the Bayern Munich striker as he looks forward to win the 2022 World Cup with Senegal.
Source: GNA
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The first batch of Team Ghana arrived in the United Kingdom (UK) for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
The 2022 Commonwealth Games would begin on Thursday, July 28, and end on Monday, August 8.
Ghana would be competing in 13 out of 31 sporting disciplines expected to be held at the Games.
The team was led by Mr. Frederick Acheampong, who is the Treasurer of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and a member of the Ghana Football Association, as the Chef de Mission (CDM), with Mr. Henry Larbi, founding member of Wheelchair Tennis in Ghana as the deputy CDM.
Ghana would compete in athletics, badminton, boxing, beach volleyball, cycling (road race), field hockey, judo, table tennis, triathlon, para-cycling, weightlifting, and squash.
The country has competed in 16 editions of the Games since its inception in 1954. Ghana only missed out in the 1986 Games held in Edinburgh.
Source: GNA
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Asante Kotoko has announced that they will not compete in the Ghana League Club Association (GHALCA) top-six tournament this season.
The tournament was scheduled to be held at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in August, with the top six teams in the 2021/22 Ghana Premier League season expected to battle for the trophy.
But Kotoko, in a social media post on Thursday, declared their intention of not competing in the tournament, saying that their withdrawal was for sporting reasons.
“We have this afternoon written officially to GHALCA, informing the welfare body of our decision not to partake in this year’s GHALCA Top Six tournament.”
“Our decision was purely based on sporting reasons,” the social media post read.
Kotoko has been hit with a massive technical setback after their league-winning coach, Dr. Prosper Ogum Nartey, resigned from his position as head coach.
Source: GNA
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