{"id":273468,"date":"2011-01-11T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46240"},"modified":"2011-01-11T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:23:48","slug":"asamoah-gyan-keenly-awaits-ghana-friendly-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/11\/asamoah-gyan-keenly-awaits-ghana-friendly-against-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan Keenly Awaits Ghana Friendly Against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_46241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46241\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-46241\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/11\/asamoah-gyan-keenly-awaits-ghana-friendly-against-england\/asamoah-gyan\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46241\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Asamoah-Gyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is  delighted that an international friendly has been organised between his  native Ghana and England.<br \/>\nNew of the match scheduled for Wembley  on 29 March, was broken by GHANAsoccernet.com and has delighted fans of  the Black Stars. It has now emerged that just like the fans of the Ghana  national team, the players are also keenly awaiting the first clash  between the two sides.<br \/>\nObviously keen on winning the bragging  rights, Gyan who is gthe Black Stars key striker says the two sides will  impress. \u201cIt will be a very good game. England is a good team so it  will be exciting to play against them,\u201d Gyan said<br \/>\n\u201cWe on the  other hand are growing in confidence so the chance to face them in a  high profile game like this is exciting.\u201d The match against the Three  Lions will be played just three days after Ghana\u2019s 2012 Africa Cup of  Nations qualifier, away to Congo.<br \/>\nGhana were just a Gyan missed  penalty away from reaching the semi-finals of last year\u2019s World Cup in  South Africa before losing in a shoot-out to Uruguay.<br \/>\nThe Black  Stars\u2019 side is set to feature several players familiar to English fans  with Michael Essien, John Pantsil, Gyan, Richard Kingson and John Mensah  all currently appearing for Premier League clubs.<br \/>\nEngland have met Ghana at youth level, with the Africans convincing 4-0 winners at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup two years ago.<br \/>\nEngland  intorduced the game to Ghana but the Black Stars are keen to show te  originators of the game that they have perfected the trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is delighted that an international friendly has been organised between his native Ghana and England. 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