BABA YARA (1936-1969) – Outstanding Ghanaian Footballer Life Story After The Terrible Accident That Happens To Him On The Ho-Kpeve Road On March 24, 1963, while returning from a victorious league match with Kpando Malpo F/C, the vehicle on which the Real Republicans were traveling was involved in an accident on the Ho-Kpeve road. The… Read More »
BABA YARA (1936-1969) Outstanding Ghanaian Footballer Baba Yara is simply a legend or one of the top best football players our lovely country Ghana has produced. A great winger, his originality and dazzling dribbling talent made Sundays one of the most enjoyable times in the 1960s. He thrilled spectators with his prowess and charming football… Read More »
Roy Ankrah – First African Commonwealth Boxing Champion and First Ghanaian National Boxing Coach In October 1941, he was enlisted in the Gold Coast Regiment, but before leaving for Burma, he met Tiger Mumuni, the bantamweight Champion, and beat him for his title. In Burma, Roy Ankrah was first a driver’s mate. He later became… Read More »
ROY ANKRAH (1923-1995) First African Commonwealth Boxing Champion and First Ghanaian National Boxing Coach On April 30, 1951, before a crowd of over 30,000 people at Empress Hall, Earls Court, London, a black man entered the ring to vie for the British Empire featherweight title. For well over eleven rounds in which Clayton, the Champion,… Read More »
FLOYD KLUTEI ROBERTSON Professional Life Story After Moving To the United Kingdom in June 1958 In Belfast, Ireland, he came under the management of Briere’s who lost no time in organizing fights for him. In his very first month in Belfast, he conquered Lee Harvey in the distance. The unexpected defeat of the local hero… Read More »
FLOYD KLUTEI ROBERTSON (1937-1982)- The first Ghanaian to Fight for a World Boxing Champion Belt May 9, 1964 The first Ghanaian to Fight for a World Boxing Champion Belt May 9, 1964, will forever be remembered in the boxing history of Ghana. It was the day the first world boxing championship tournament was staged in… Read More »
DAVID KOTEI’s first professional fight was with Young Joe Lartey in August 1966. He knocked Lartey out in the sixth round. Then took on Abu Norgah and later Bob Cofie. He stooped both in the distance. In April 1969 he stopped Teddy Walker in the sixth round to snatch the national featherweight belt. He made… Read More »
DAVID KOTEI POISON First Ghanaian World Boxing Champion The Los Angeles Forum was packed to capacity. Over 90 percent of the 10,000 spectators were rooting for Ruben Olivares, the champion with an impressive record of 85 fights (77 wins – 69 by KOs and 5 losses). But as the fight progressed, the largely partisan crowd… Read More »
Details Article On How Ohene Djan Help The Ghanaian Sports Administration To Won So Many Medals Ohene Djan was not only in soccer; he was in athletics as well. One of their earliest undertakings just after the assumption of office was to send a number of locally distinguished athletics (N. A. Adjin-Tetteh, J. A. Antwi,… Read More »
OHENE KWABENA DJAN (1924-1987) Ghana’s First Director of Sports Representatives of Regional Football Associations which formed a loose Central Administration gathered in Accra on December 16, 1957, to discuss the state of the organization. After hours of heated debate involving unleashing an avalanche of attacks on the Central Administration Body, the Cape Coast representative in… Read More »