KHOKHO IN GHANA

Khokho is an indigenous Indian game you would love to play. It has some similarities with Ghana’s anto ankyire game. Kho Kho is a popular tag and ancient game invented in Maharashtra, India. It is played by teams of 12 nominated players out of fifteen, of which nine enter the field who sit on their knees (chasing team), and 3 extra (defending team) who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team. It is one of the two most popular traditional tag games in the Indian subcontinent.

The Khokho federation of Ghana in collaboration with SportDrive is developing the game in the country. The team was at Oyarifa Presby JHS today to introduce the students to the game and it’s amazing how they picked up quickly and fell in love with the games. A very big thank you to Mr. Ewura Karim Adams who made it possible.

If you want us to visit your school or your ward’s school, kindly comment below or send us a direct message on Instagram at @sportdrive_inc and we will attend to you.

Let’s bring back our indigenous games. Sankofa yenkyiri ✌🏼

God bless Ghana Sports.

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KENYA REPLACED EQUATORIAL GUINEA

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So when all the discussions were about whether Ghana could keep her hosting right for the AWCON 2018, a decision from CAF has ruled out the 2012 Champions Equatorial Guinea from the competition due to a petition filed by the Kenyans women national team.

Kenya who lost their final qualifying group match against Equatorial Guinea filed a petition against the 2012 champions for using
Anette Jacky Messomo, who had played for Cameroun’s Indomitable Lionesses.

Annete Jacky who claimed she has naturalized for Equatorial Guinea but a letter from the football federation of Cameroon dated August 30th, 2018 to CAF indicated that The player in question is a Camerounian and there was no request of naturalization from the Football Federation of Equatorial Guinea .

The Disciplinary Board Of CAF came to a conclusion after series of investigations to replace the 2012 champions with Kenya for the offense of using an unqualified player.

The tournament which is scheduled from November 17th to December 1st, 2018 have the Ghana as the host, the defending champions, Nigeria, Cameroun, South Africa, Mali, Algeria, Zambia and the Harambees starlets of Kenya for the main draw in Accra on Sunday, October 21.

Now the big question is why will CAF wait until such a late hour before bringing out this sanction after receiving evidence at least a month ago?

PRESEC BONFIRE THREATENS AWCON 2018 — SportDrive

The 2018 Total African Women’s Cup Of Nations event which was previously denied of Ghana due to the “unready” nature of most of the facilities to host the tournament has now been successfully handed over to Ghana after meetings and discussions held between the government of Ghana and CAF. The Accra Sports Stadium which will […]

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PRESEC BONFIRE THREATENS AWCON 2018

The 2018 Total African Women’s Cup Of Nations event which was previously denied of Ghana due to the “unready” nature of most of the facilities to host the tournament has now been successfully handed over to Ghana after meetings and discussions held between the government of Ghana and CAF.
The Accra Sports Stadium which will serve as the main stadium to host the tournament has now seen renovation being done to it, something which has been missing for quite a while now in the country. The El wak and Presec pitches also had a facelift to serve as training pitches for the teams which would be in Accra.
All seemed good for the host of the tournament which is starting from 17th November, 2018 to 1st December, 2018 until there was the Bonfire celebration by the Presec old students  on the 12th of October 2018, at Presec. The pitch which was now leveled and green to the standardized structure was burnt and now, the whole field is full of broken bottles, garbages, stones and all sort of harmful materials we can think of.
The Technical Advisor to the Ministry Of youth and sports Dr. Emmanuel Owusu Ansah who is also a member of the AWCON committee was present to witness the situation with the Pitch Manager the next day. Information from the pitch manager indicates that this havoc cannot be corrected within the shortest possible time.
The technical advisor also told SportDrive that the authorities of the school were given a prior notice not to use the field since the tournament is starting next month and some officials from CAF are in the country to inspect all the facilities to be used for the tournament as well.
With the CAF team now in the country for the final inspection on all the facilities to host the 2018 AFWCON tournament which was done on the 14th-15th October 2018, what will be fate of the nation?Who is to be blamed if we loose the right of hosting which we have fought so hard to keep till this late hour?.