{"id":310242,"date":"2011-03-15T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/black-stars-will-thrive-without-asamoah-gyan\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:22:22","slug":"black-stars-will-thrive-without-asamoah-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/black-stars-will-thrive-without-asamoah-gyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars Will Thrive Without Asamoah Gyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Ghana coach Goran \u2018Plavi\u2019 Stevanovic is confident that the Black Stars will thrive against Congo on 27 March despite the absence of lead striker Asamoah Gyan.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan will not be available for the game in Brazzaville as he is serving a three-match ban after he was sent off against Sudan last September. In-form Prince Tagoe and Dominic Adiyiah are expected to lead Ghana\u2019s attack in the absence of the Sunderland hit-man.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian told GNA Sports that he has absolute faith in Gyan\u2019s replacements and trusts them to deliver the goals for the Black Stars. \u201cI have 100 percent faith in my players. I believe in their abilities and we can succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Gyan\u2019s unavailability, Plavi confirmed that the striker will travel with the team to Congo to motivate his colleagues to victory against the Red Devils. \u201cGyan will travel with the team to inspire the rest of the team,\u201d Plavi said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunderland striker has metamorphosed into arguably the most important member of the Black Stars after stellar performances at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cup in Angola and South Africa respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_302-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ghana coach Goran \u2018Plavi\u2019 Stevanovic is confident that the Black Stars will thrive against Congo on 27 March despite the absence of lead striker Asamoah Gyan. Gyan will not be available for the game in Brazzaville as he is serving a three-match ban after he was sent off against Sudan last September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Stars Will Thrive Without Asamoah Gyan - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/black-stars-will-thrive-without-asamoah-gyan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Black Stars Will Thrive Without Asamoah Gyan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana coach Goran \u2018Plavi\u2019 Stevanovic is confident that the Black Stars will thrive against Congo on 27 March despite the absence of lead striker Asamoah Gyan. 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