ACCRA, March 28, 2025 - Leicester City’s Ghanaian forward Jordan Pierre Ayew has finally, later than expected, become the substantive captain of the Ghana football team, the Black Stars.  Named captain ahead of Ghana’s double-header March fixtures against Chad and Madagascar in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Jordan becomes the third member of the Ayew family, after his father the great Abedi Pele Ayew and brother Andre Ayew, to lead Ghana. And this is such a remarkable story in the history of not just...

VIGEVANO, March 27, 2025 - I must admit that I’ve thought a lot about how to start this article, although I’m a journalist and writing comes easily to me, this time, when I have so many feelings and so many beautiful memories in my heart, it’s difficult.But anyway, here we go. It all started in early March 2025 when I arrived in Italy. On the first day back at the office, I told Gianni Merlo, the president of the International Sports Press Association, and my boss, that I wanted to register to run the...

ZURICH, March 28, 2025 - The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has announced that each of the four African teams participating in the maiden FIFA Club World Cup will receive a staggering USD 9.55 million participation fee.The four African teams, namely Al Ahly (Egypt), Esperance (Tunisia), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), and Wydad Athletic Club (Morocco), will earn the same participation fee as the teams from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Confederation of North,...

HELSINKI, March 25, 2025 - Jari Porttila, one of Finland’s most experienced sports journalists, was unanimously elected chairman of the Finnish Sports Journalists Association at a meeting held in Helsinki.Jari Porttila has worked as a sports journalist since 1980, beginning with the newspapers Uusi Suomi and Iltalehti until the end of 1991. Since 1992, he has worked for Finland’s largest commercial TV company, MTV. Among other accomplishments, Porttila founded MTV’s sports news program...