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

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.

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.

Ghana’s Premier League is all set to loose its patronage, it was revealed. International Club football all over the world, has begun with all the glamour, excitement, patronage, and media attention, as usual. The sale of football as a product on pay per-view networks in Ghana is also receiving the needed subscription as ever before. When would this seasons’ league begin in Ghana? As well, is the Professional League Board (PLB) aware that, it is parting with the support base of our local league?

Ghana FA boss has demanded changes in footall rules after the Luis Suarez hand ball incident which denied Ghana a place in the semi-finals of the World Cup. Uruguay striker Luis Suarez deliberately punched a goal-bound header at the depth of extra-time last Friday.

Referee Olegario Benquerenca whistled for a penalty and flashed the red card but Nyantakyi believes the Black Stars were handed a raw deal by that decision.

GHANA coach Milovan Rajevac has unveiled his 23-man World Cup squad with all his key players included with one notable exception, Michael Essien.

The Chelsea midfielder misses the trip to South Africa after failing to recover from the knee injury that forced him to limp out of Ghana's team at the Africa Cup of Nations in January. He was ruled out of contention on Friday.

Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who has a Ghanaian father and a German mother, made the list after receiving approval from FIFA despite having figured for Germany at youth level.

Ghana convert Jeffrey Sarpong is targeting playing at the Fifa World Cup finals with the Black Stars.

The 21-year-old represented Holland at youth level and is seeking a switch to feature for the West African country.

The on-loan NEC Nijmegen midfielder believes his six assists last month will earn him a place in the Ghana set-up.

"I think that it's a realistic goal for me to target a spot in Ghana's World Cup squad. I knew that I wouldn't make it into Holland's senior side, but I do have a chance to play for Ghana," Sarpong told Voetbal International.