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🇸🇳 El Hadj Diouf plays a very unique role in Senegal's national team setup: with no official title, one of things he does so well is to absorb pressure so that the players can focus. Here he is, "engaging" hostile DRC fans in Kinshasa. Senegal won 3-2.

🇸🇳 El Hadj Diouf plays a very unique role in Senegal's national team setup: with no official title, one of things he does so well is to absorb pressure so that the players can focus. Here he is, "engaging" hostile DRC fans in Kinshasa. Senegal won 3-2.

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The goal: 🇲🇦 Morocco's coach took a gamble and used 1 of 2 available VAR requests to ask for a penalty. He did not get it, but ref gave a freekick instead. Then Zabiri stepped up and did this for 1-0.

The goal: 🇲🇦 Morocco's coach took a gamble and used 1 of 2 available VAR requests to ask for a penalty. He did not get it, but ref gave a freekick instead. Then Zabiri stepped up and did this for 1-0.

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The Ghana FA is set to present five buses to five clubs - Dreams Ladies, Police Ladies, Real Tamale United, Rospak FC & Port City FC. The buses are parked at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram, where the GFA is holding its 32nd Ordinary Congress. 😉

The Ghana FA is set to present five buses to five clubs - Dreams Ladies, Police Ladies, Real Tamale United, Rospak FC & Port City FC. The buses are parked at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram, where the GFA is holding its 32nd Ordinary Congress. 😉

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Iñaki Williams has every right to feel aggrieved about what seems to be a pattern of repeated snubs when he makes great runs in the Ghana team. So unfair.

Iñaki Williams has every right to feel aggrieved about what seems to be a pattern of repeated snubs when he makes great runs in the Ghana team. So unfair.

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Arsenal's Emirates nicer than the Bernabeu. 🙄

Arsenal's Emirates nicer than the Bernabeu. 🙄

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Amusing how I've been caught in the crossfire of just showing up to do my job as much as I have this World Cup. This video sums it up. 😃 No matter how many questions you ask in the 2/3 minutes you are given, somebody in Zabzugu Fankyenekɔ will say why did you not ask this or that? I am not even a public servant, nobody pays their taxes to me, but they treat you like demma money dey your der! 😂 It's all part of the job. The trick is to never take it personally — as provocative as some of the comments can be.

Amusing how I've been caught in the crossfire of just showing up to do my job as much as I have this World Cup. This video sums it up. 😃 No matter how many questions you ask in the 2/3 minutes you are given, somebody in Zabzugu Fankyenekɔ will say why did you not ask this or that? I am not even a public servant, nobody pays their taxes to me, but they treat you like demma money dey your der! 😂 It's all part of the job. The trick is to never take it personally — as provocative as some of the comments can be.

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Asante Kotoko were leading when, late into Ghana's biggest club football match, Hearts of Oak got this goal — but ref Reginald Collins whistled for offside just before Mawuli Wayo pulled the trigger. Good call or not? FT: 🌈 0-1 🦔

Asante Kotoko were leading when, late into Ghana's biggest club football match, Hearts of Oak got this goal — but ref Reginald Collins whistled for offside just before Mawuli Wayo pulled the trigger. Good call or not? FT: 🌈 0-1 🦔

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Clocks installed at the University of Ghana Stadium. Athletes can now see their times after the hitches of the last two days.

Clocks installed at the University of Ghana Stadium. Athletes can now see their times after the hitches of the last two days.

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My 🇬🇭 Ghana XI vs 🇵🇦 Panama: Lawrence Ati Zigi — Marvin Senaya, Oppong Peprah, Jerome Opoku, Gideon Mensah — Caleb Yirenkyi, Augustine Boakye — Ernest Nuamah, Jordan Ayew, Thomas Asante - Antoine Semenyo 3 hours to kickoff!

My 🇬🇭 Ghana XI vs 🇵🇦 Panama: Lawrence Ati Zigi — Marvin Senaya, Oppong Peprah, Jerome Opoku, Gideon Mensah — Caleb Yirenkyi, Augustine Boakye — Ernest Nuamah, Jordan Ayew, Thomas Asante - Antoine Semenyo 3 hours to kickoff!

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All of you chastising Prez Nana Akufo-Addo should be ashamed! Who told you his body language here when talking to the Prez of the Ghana Journalists' Association means he was unhappy with the GJA boss' speech? Haters! 🙃 #FreeTheCitzens #StopGalamsey

All of you chastising Prez Nana Akufo-Addo should be ashamed! Who told you his body language here when talking to the Prez of the Ghana Journalists' Association means he was unhappy with the GJA boss' speech? Haters! 🙃 #FreeTheCitzens #StopGalamsey

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The most expensive World Cup ever required serious financial muscle to conquer. Heartfelt thanks to some of Ghana's most relevant brands for the continued trust: Polytank Ghana, Stanbic Bank Ghana, Samsung Ghana, PayAngel and Kivo Products. The future is exciting.

The most expensive World Cup ever required serious financial muscle to conquer. Heartfelt thanks to some of Ghana's most relevant brands for the continued trust: Polytank Ghana, Stanbic Bank Ghana, Samsung Ghana, PayAngel and Kivo Products. The future is exciting.

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Arthur Masuaku vs Chelsea Arthur Masuaku vs Guinea 📹 @smirky_mikee

Arthur Masuaku vs Chelsea Arthur Masuaku vs Guinea 📹 @smirky_mikee

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Proper proper stadium, this Boston one.

Proper proper stadium, this Boston one.

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Delighted to have touched down in 🇶🇦 Doha from 🇺🇸 DC. Here for: ✅️ Fifa Arab Cup, ft AFCON-bound 🇲🇦 MOR & 🇩🇿 ALG ✅️ Fifa Intercontinental Cup, ft African champs 🇪🇬 Pyramids, 🇧🇷 Flamengo & 🇫🇷 PSG ✅️ Qatar 2022 legacy as we begin to realise how $$ worse 2026 WC could be.

Delighted to have touched down in 🇶🇦 Doha from 🇺🇸 DC. Here for: ✅️ Fifa Arab Cup, ft AFCON-bound 🇲🇦 MOR & 🇩🇿 ALG ✅️ Fifa Intercontinental Cup, ft African champs 🇪🇬 Pyramids, 🇧🇷 Flamengo & 🇫🇷 PSG ✅️ Qatar 2022 legacy as we begin to realise how $$ worse 2026 WC could be.

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I know it's early, but what's your gut feeling about Ghana vs England on Tuesday? Me: we go soak serious pressure, but las las the game ends in a draw. What be your mind?

I know it's early, but what's your gut feeling about Ghana vs England on Tuesday? Me: we go soak serious pressure, but las las the game ends in a draw. What be your mind?

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What now can we expect from the 🇬🇭 Black Stars? Them:

What now can we expect from the 🇬🇭 Black Stars? Them:

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Exclusive: 🇬🇭 Jordan Ayew — ✅️ Has left Ghana, on his way to sign in Sheffield ✅️ NOT going to Cyprus, Blackburn, or Southampton ✅️ Has been called up by Queiroz but... ✅️ Why he may ask to be excused for upcoming qualifiers.
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Exclusive: 🇬🇭 Jordan Ayew — ✅️ Has left Ghana, on his way to sign in Sheffield ✅️ NOT going to Cyprus, Blackburn, or Southampton ✅️ Has been called up by Queiroz but... ✅️ Why he may ask to be excused for upcoming qualifiers.

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Well, this was awkward. 🇺🇸 Chris Robinson had to deal with his privates constantly coming out of their holder at today's 400m hurdles in Ostrava. Clearly slowed him down a bit — but he still won in a SB of 48.05! Competition wasn't stiff, obvz.
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Well, this was awkward. 🇺🇸 Chris Robinson had to deal with his privates constantly coming out of their holder at today's 400m hurdles in Ostrava. Clearly slowed him down a bit — but he still won in a SB of 48.05! Competition wasn't stiff, obvz.

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Michael B. Jordan, after winning Best Actor in a Leading Role: "My father's here. Hey Pops, where you at? My father flew in from Ghana to be here..." His father, Michael A. Jordan, lives in Ghana. Not Ghanaian, however. 🇬🇭 #Oscars
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Michael B. Jordan, after winning Best Actor in a Leading Role: "My father's here. Hey Pops, where you at? My father flew in from Ghana to be here..." His father, Michael A. Jordan, lives in Ghana. Not Ghanaian, however. 🇬🇭 #Oscars

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Today is the first time Hearts of Oak have scored four in a league game without conceding since the 2019/20 season, when they beat Great Olympics 4-0. Watch all four goals:
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Today is the first time Hearts of Oak have scored four in a league game without conceding since the 2019/20 season, when they beat Great Olympics 4-0. Watch all four goals:

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Two years ago, today. When Brazilian channel TV Globo caught this live: a young Fluminense fan's sashaying emotions - from despair to dizzy, delirious tears - as the 99th minute winning goal went in. ❤️
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Two years ago, today. When Brazilian channel TV Globo caught this live: a young Fluminense fan's sashaying emotions - from despair to dizzy, delirious tears - as the 99th minute winning goal went in. ❤️

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3,196,334 views • 10 months ago

Not a single English journalist asked Tuchel about his thing with Jude at the press conference today. I found it strange, so I asked them. They said: ✅️ If the team qualify to the final, it is also to the benefit of the media, so there is no need to play it any further. ✅️ Team England had informally asked the media to let sleeping dogs lie so that they could focus on the bigger task As someone who saw how Ghanaians treated journalists covering the Black Stars at this World Cup, this was very instructive:
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Not a single English journalist asked Tuchel about his thing with Jude at the press conference today. I found it strange, so I asked them. They said: ✅️ If the team qualify to the final, it is also to the benefit of the media, so there is no need to play it any further. ✅️ Team England had informally asked the media to let sleeping dogs lie so that they could focus on the bigger task As someone who saw how Ghanaians treated journalists covering the Black Stars at this World Cup, this was very instructive:

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EXCLUSIVE: Spoke to four senior CAF figures who explain Africa's current position on Infantino WC idea: ✅️ CAF were not aware of Infantino's idea until it hit the media ✅️ Initially, members wanted $20m deal. Then things changed. ✅️ CAF not interested in choosing sides. ✅️ CAF leaning toward non-alignment: will NOT boycott Fifa competitions, neither will they follow Gianni. For now. ✅️ Uefa and Fifa are fighting over $$ and control. Any decision taken must position Africa to get more of both.
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EXCLUSIVE: Spoke to four senior CAF figures who explain Africa's current position on Infantino WC idea: ✅️ CAF were not aware of Infantino's idea until it hit the media ✅️ Initially, members wanted $20m deal. Then things changed. ✅️ CAF not interested in choosing sides. ✅️ CAF leaning toward non-alignment: will NOT boycott Fifa competitions, neither will they follow Gianni. For now. ✅️ Uefa and Fifa are fighting over $$ and control. Any decision taken must position Africa to get more of both.

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🚨 Derek Boateng: "To be honest, I don't think [Eddie Nketiah and Hudson-Odoi] will add anything significant to the team right now....The team is not a place for players to come and 'try their luck' when they realise they can’t play for England or..."
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🚨 Derek Boateng: "To be honest, I don't think [Eddie Nketiah and Hudson-Odoi] will add anything significant to the team right now....The team is not a place for players to come and 'try their luck' when they realise they can’t play for England or..."

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🚨 NEW: 🇬🇭 Oscar Naasei Oppong (Real Madrid) ✅️ "He will break into the Madrid first team in two years", per ex-coaches. ✅️ Details of pathway: 🇬🇭 Kumasi -> 🇬🇭 Accra -> 🇪🇸 Graná -> 🇪🇸 Madrid ✅️ How he came close to being at 2026 World Cup. ✅️ The new Huijsen?
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🚨 NEW: 🇬🇭 Oscar Naasei Oppong (Real Madrid) ✅️ "He will break into the Madrid first team in two years", per ex-coaches. ✅️ Details of pathway: 🇬🇭 Kumasi -> 🇬🇭 Accra -> 🇪🇸 Graná -> 🇪🇸 Madrid ✅️ How he came close to being at 2026 World Cup. ✅️ The new Huijsen?

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When used properly, 🇬🇭 Prince Kwabena Adu can be very useful.
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When used properly, 🇬🇭 Prince Kwabena Adu can be very useful.

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"Jude, give me your jacket!" 😂 You may have seen Yaw Dabo's short selfie video with Jude Bellingham. This is the full story. Dabo is a very persistent guy. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇭
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"Jude, give me your jacket!" 😂 You may have seen Yaw Dabo's short selfie video with Jude Bellingham. This is the full story. Dabo is a very persistent guy. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇭

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Hope this helps. 🇨🇲 Cameroon coach David Pagou: "I dedicate this win [against Gabon] to Samuel Eto'o and to my family."
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Hope this helps. 🇨🇲 Cameroon coach David Pagou: "I dedicate this win [against Gabon] to Samuel Eto'o and to my family."

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WATCH: The sequence showing how Mbappe seemed to have been distracted by the ref's on-and-off orders before he kicked the penalty. #GalaxyS26Ultra
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WATCH: The sequence showing how Mbappe seemed to have been distracted by the ref's on-and-off orders before he kicked the penalty. #GalaxyS26Ultra

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Post-match: Colombia 🇨🇴 1-0 🇬🇭 Ghana My full interview with Jordan Ayew ✅️ On why we lost ✅️ "We should sometimes accept when opposition is slightly better" ✅️ ✅️ If coaching could be better ✅️ If certain players stayed on for too long ✅️ Says this World Cup campaign was "not good" ✅️ "Guys...the manager just came... you dont just adjust within one month or two months... football doesn't work that way"
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Post-match: Colombia 🇨🇴 1-0 🇬🇭 Ghana My full interview with Jordan Ayew ✅️ On why we lost ✅️ "We should sometimes accept when opposition is slightly better" ✅️ ✅️ If coaching could be better ✅️ If certain players stayed on for too long ✅️ Says this World Cup campaign was "not good" ✅️ "Guys...the manager just came... you dont just adjust within one month or two months... football doesn't work that way"

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181,948 views • 2 months ago

WOW! 🇪🇬 Egypt coach Hossam Hassan has just given an impassioned 5 minute speech on Palestine and the "injustice they are going through" and how whatever happens at the World Cup pales in comparison with how poorly the world has reacted to the situation. Rapturous applause from Egyptian journalists. Full translation shortly.
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WOW! 🇪🇬 Egypt coach Hossam Hassan has just given an impassioned 5 minute speech on Palestine and the "injustice they are going through" and how whatever happens at the World Cup pales in comparison with how poorly the world has reacted to the situation. Rapturous applause from Egyptian journalists. Full translation shortly.

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157,953 views • 2 months ago

Hey England, come out!
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Hey England, come out!

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193,364 views • 2 months ago

HT: Ghana 🇬🇭 0-1 🇨🇲 Cameroon A controversial handball call puts the Lionesses in the lead. Second half underway.
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HT: Ghana 🇬🇭 0-1 🇨🇲 Cameroon A controversial handball call puts the Lionesses in the lead. Second half underway.

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89,360 views • 1 month ago

It just gets better for 🇬🇭 Benjamin Asare. A few weeks before the World Cup, Black Stars keeper Benjamin Asare signed on as a brand ambassador for Polytank Ghana, the country's biggest supplier of storage tanks for/in the last 30 years. A locally-based GK, his story is truly something. Just 18-24 months ago, there was almost zero talkability around him beyond his football. Since being made Ghana's #1 by Otto Addo in March 2025, brands noticed the curious controversy he has engendered. Crucially, they have looked beyond his perceived lack of charisma and tapped into the buzz around him. Also important, he never says anything that will impact negatively on the brands — man is all about vibes, witty barbs and doing his job. This TVC here accompanies the endorsement deal, and with Polytank being one of the main sponsors of the syndicated nationwide TV World Cup coverage which 16 stations have signed on, Asare's brand equity is expected to soar multiple-fold by the end of the competition. The 33-year-old is now the first current Ghana Premier League goalkeeper to be fielded by the Black Stars in its 20-year World Cup history. Among other firsts. Quite the wave he is riding.
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It just gets better for 🇬🇭 Benjamin Asare. A few weeks before the World Cup, Black Stars keeper Benjamin Asare signed on as a brand ambassador for Polytank Ghana, the country's biggest supplier of storage tanks for/in the last 30 years. A locally-based GK, his story is truly something. Just 18-24 months ago, there was almost zero talkability around him beyond his football. Since being made Ghana's #1 by Otto Addo in March 2025, brands noticed the curious controversy he has engendered. Crucially, they have looked beyond his perceived lack of charisma and tapped into the buzz around him. Also important, he never says anything that will impact negatively on the brands — man is all about vibes, witty barbs and doing his job. This TVC here accompanies the endorsement deal, and with Polytank being one of the main sponsors of the syndicated nationwide TV World Cup coverage which 16 stations have signed on, Asare's brand equity is expected to soar multiple-fold by the end of the competition. The 33-year-old is now the first current Ghana Premier League goalkeeper to be fielded by the Black Stars in its 20-year World Cup history. Among other firsts. Quite the wave he is riding.

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160,380 views • 2 months ago

This is the Boston Stadium aka Gillette Stadium, where Germany 🇩🇪 play 🇵🇾 Paraguay. To access the pitch from the elevators, you have to pass through bread. Yes, a whole lot of freshly baked, sweet-smelling, bread. 🍞
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This is the Boston Stadium aka Gillette Stadium, where Germany 🇩🇪 play 🇵🇾 Paraguay. To access the pitch from the elevators, you have to pass through bread. Yes, a whole lot of freshly baked, sweet-smelling, bread. 🍞

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150,887 views • 2 months ago

WATCH: The seconds before Lionel Messi's equalising goal, the goal, and celebrations by players and fans. Absolute cinema in Atlanta! #GalaxyS26Ultra
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WATCH: The seconds before Lionel Messi's equalising goal, the goal, and celebrations by players and fans. Absolute cinema in Atlanta! #GalaxyS26Ultra

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117,971 views • 2 months ago