Soccer News of Thursday, 7 July 2011

Source: Raymond Yeboah-arksports

Ivorian refs for Ghana, Nigeria match

IVORIAN officials will be in charge of Sunday’s All-Africa Games qualifying cracker between Ghana and Nigeria at the Baba Yara Sports Complex, Kumasi.

Mr. Denis Dembele will be centre referee while Mamadou Bogbe will be the 1st Assistant referee. Marius Tan will be second Assistant referee while Thomas Nunoo will be the reserve referee.

Bojang Jameh from The Gambia will be the Match Commissioner.

The Nigeria U-23 team, Dream Team, will depart for Ghana from Lagos tomorrow morning, and connect to Kumasi the following day.Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation said on Wednesday that everything is being done to ensure that Nigeria earns the ticket to the 10th All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique at the expense of the Ghanaians, who stopped the Dream Team reaching the last All-Africa Games in Algeria and whose women’s team stopped the Super Falcons from the race to Maputo