CHARLES K. MARFO (RAY CHARLES)

   Asante Kotoko Receive GH¢60,000 For League Win Asante Kotoko has received GH¢60,000 cash from one of their sponsors, Interplast for their 2012/13 Glo Premier League triumph, footy-ghana.com can reveal. The amount is an additional bonus in their annual GH¢100,000 cash sponsorship for the league champions. It was part of the incentive packages in the plastic company’s package for the club which was signed by out-going Executive Chairman Dr. KK Sarpong in October 2010. According to our sources, it was stipulated in the deal that Interplast will reward the team with GH¢60,000, GH¢40,000 or GH¢20,000 if Asante Kotoko is able to secure first, second or third places respectively at the end of every Premier League season within the contract. Footy-ghana.com is reliably informed that the amount has been deposited into the club’s account this week. Asante Kotoko also stands to gain a GH¢30,000 bonus from the club’s headline sponsors MTN for winning the just ended season’s...

                      Sundowns down Kotoko 2-0 .. South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns clinched a 2-0 win over Asante Kotoko in an international friendly at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Kumasi on Sunday. The match formed part of the pre-season training tour of the South African team in Ghana. Mamelodi went ahead through an own goal scored by Kotoko’s Smallboy Cobbah, who in a desperate attempt to clear Elias Pelembe’s in-swinger found the back of his own net in the 48th minute.   Gingered by this goal, the South African side, who were a pale shadow of themselves in the first half, and led by veteran Teko Modese, probed for more and in the process mounted series of attacks to break the Kotoko defence.   However, the determined Kotoko defence centred around Kofi Agyare, Joseph Ochaya and Cobbah, warded off most of the attacks. Kotoko made some substitutions in the ...

    Asante Kotoko Fires Back On Top Of Glo Premier League Story : Ray Charles Kumasi Asante Kotoko are back on top of the Glo Premier League table after a late goal to defeat Heart of Lions 2-1 on Wednesday action in Kpando. The must win battle saw Kofi Nti Boakye of Kotoko scoring after 24 minutes in the game but Kweku Andoh equalising for Kpando Hearts of Lions. Kotoko were two points adrift joint-top Chelsea before kick-off but the slip by the Berekum side, who could only draw away with Arsenal in Dormaa allowed the Porcupine Warriors to leapfrog them to the summit. Kotoko's Seidu Bancey scored in injury time when the  game appeared to be heading for a draw  to stun the Kpando team . The win was soo  crucial for the Porcupine Warriors in their quest for a successful title defence with the season left with two more games to go.