Nigeria are set to take revenge over Ghana in the upcoming friendly. Nigeria led by coach Samson Siasia got its pound of flesh soon after when it sent packing the Black Meteors from the 2008 Bejing Olympics.

Ghana was bundled out of next year’s Olympics, by unfancied Sudan meaning the face saver for the U23s is a place at the All-Africa Games in Mozambique.

Ghana has already sent out its highly-rated Nigerian counterpart from the women’s football event of the All-Africa Games.

Ghana will be playing the archrivals Nigeria in the U23 level championships in a short while.

The two meet again in the last zonal men’s football qualifier for the forthcoming All Africa Games.

The fixture follows Nigeria’s 6-1 spanking of Liberia on Sunday to qualify 7-2 on aggregate.

Nigeria’s Dream Team drew the first leg in Monrovia but the team under coach Austin Eguavoen thoroughly annihilated their opponents to line up a clash with Ghana.

World football star Lionel Messi is expected to be getting a huge reception when his Argentina side face Ghana in the coming June. According to Owuahene Acheampong, a top GFA executive in an exclusive interview with yours truly, every negotiation have been made and completed, awaiting for the match day and the referee to blow his whistle for the game to start.

Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills has said that he is going to focus on improving football in Ghana. Juvenile football which nurtured massive talents was hugely popular in the past but has seen its stock plummet over the past decade.

Addressing Parliament on his third State of Nations’ Address on Thursday, President John Evans Atta Mills, a former football administrator, charged on the football authorities to concentrate their attention on building colts football

A young Ghanaian was one of the stars in England at the junior level for a club in England.The soccer ace who features for the Under-14 side of Bracknell Town Junior F.C. lives with his mother at Bracknell, an English town near Heathrow in London.

The International Olympic Committee has suspended Ghana from the Olympics after interference from the government. If the dispute is not resolved, athletes from Ghana will not be able to compete at the 2012 Games in London. The decision by the IOC executive board also means that Ghana receives no IOC funding.

The move came after months of negotiations failed to produce a satisfactory result for the IOC which said that the government in Ghana is appointing soccer federation leaders.

Ghana dominated by winning most of the awards in the CAF award function. They beat African Cup of Nations winners Egypt as well as Algeria who excelled in the tournament in Angola in January and at the World Cup in South Africa six monthslater.

Milovan Rajevac also won the Coach of the Year award. The Serbian edged out TP Mazembe’s Senegalese coach Lamine Ndiaye and Egypt boss Hassan Shehata to the continent’s top coaching award.

Former France captain Marcel Desailly has ruled himself out of the race for the coaching job of Ghana. Desailly, who has Ghanaian parents, told a press conference in Accra that he has 'run out of patience' at the slow pace at which the GFA is handling the issue.

The 1998 French World Cup winner was one of five coaches originally short-listed for the job and was considered the front-runner. He is also considering the Portugal job.

Desailly denied that he was demanding a huge signing-on fee if hired as coach of the Black Stars.

Nine managers are currently shortlisted for the vacant Ghana manager post. Some local coaches have been named among the list, according to Ghanasoccernet. Local coaches Herbert Addo and Marcel Desailly as well as Milovan Rajevac have been reported by Asempa FM to be part of the nine selected.

The Ghana FA will cut down the number to five next week after due diligence has been done and that will make-up the final list.

Humberto Coelho says that he is interested in the vacant Ghana job. The 60-year-old believes his wealth of knowledge of the African game puts him a good position to succeed.

“He believes his salary wouldn't be a problem because he loves the country and an admirer of the Black Stars,” a source close to him told Ghanasoccernet.com. Coelho, who was fired last November as Tunisia coach following a 0-1 loss in Mozambique in the 2010 World Cup qualification, has also coached Morocco and South Africa.