Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu remains missing in Turkey after devastating earthquakes struck the country and Syria, his club has told news agencies, despite earlier reports that he had been rescued.   On Tuesday, Atsu, 31, was reported to have been pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Turkey’s southern Hatay province and transported to hospital with injuries following Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake and its aftershocks.   But on Wednesday, Hatayspor coach Volkan Demirel said the search for Atsu was continuing.   “There is no information on his whereabouts yet, we don’t know where he is,” Demirel told the…

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Footballer Christian Atsu was pulled from the rubble of a building “with injuries” after the earthquakes in Turkey, his club’s vice-president Mustafa Özat told Turkish radio. “Christian Atsu was removed from the wreckage with injuries,” Özat told Radyo Gol. Atsu, who plays for Hatayspor, was trapped after the earthquakes that has killed at least 4,800 people. The ex-Ghana forward, 31, played 107 games for Newcastle and has had spells with Chelsea, Everton and Bournemouth. Hatayspor sporting director Taner Savut is still in the collapsed building. Hatay was one of the areas closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, and has…

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