{"id":321680,"date":"2011-03-19T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/gyan-luis-suarez-is-the-most-hated-man-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T08:25:33","slug":"gyan-luis-suarez-is-the-most-hated-man-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/gyan-luis-suarez-is-the-most-hated-man-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyan: Luis Su\u00e1rez Is The Most Hated Man In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"86\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<h2 readability=\"-4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BLACK-STARS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25367\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan: Luis Su\u00e1rez is the most hated man in Ghana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/029e7312RS2-300x199.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Liverpool striker Luis Su\u00e1rez is still \u201cthe most hated man in Ghana\u201d after his deliberate handball for Uruguay in last summer\u2019s World Cup quarter-final denied the African country victory, according to Sunderland forward Asamoah Gyan.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luis Suarez caused heartache for the Black Stars and Ghana fans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/h2>\n<p>Liverpool striker Luis Su\u00e1rez is still \u201cthe most hated man in Ghana\u201d after his deliberate handball for Uruguay in last summer\u2019s World Cup quarter-final denied the African country victory, according to Sunderland forward Asamoah Gyan.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span>Suarez will face two of his opponents from that controversial night in Johannesburg when Kenny Dalglish\u2019s side travel to the Stadium of Light on Sunday, with Steve Bruce able to call on both John Mensah and Gyan, the striker who became the ultimate victim of the\u00a0Liverpool<strong> <\/strong>player\u2019s gamesmanship.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After Suarez was dismissed for palming Dominic Adiyiah\u2019s injury-time header off the line with the score level, it was Gyan who missed the subsequent penalty and the match went to a shoot-out which sent Uruguay through and ended Ghana\u2019s dreams of becoming the first African nation to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez\u2019s jubilation at the end of the game \u2014 even going so far as to insist that he had inherited the \u201cHand of God\u201d from Diego Maradona \u2014 prompted fury across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>While Gyan admits he would have done the same as Suarez had roles been reversed, he acknowledges that those fans left distraught by his act are not so forgiving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not popular in Ghana,\u201d said Gyan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the most hated person in Ghana. I really am sorry to say it, because I am a good sportsman and I understand why he did it, but will the fans understand what happened? Not really, and for that he is the most hated person in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a hero now in his country, even if he is not in ours. I would have done the same thing that he did, honestly, if I was in the same position, because they needed to qualify. We did too, and you have to do what it takes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was cheating, of course, because [such an act] does not exist in the rules, but as a sportsman I know it is one of those things that we know has to happen. He is a good player, a very good player, and what happened in the World Cup is past now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will shake his hand, no problem. We were not happy, but it is one of those things. I will speak to him \u2014 he is not a friend of mine, but if he wants to speak to me, I will speak to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/029e7312RS2-300x199.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/gyan-luis-suarez-is-the-most-hated-man-in-ghana\/\" title=\"Gyan: Luis Su\u00e1rez Is The Most Hated Man In Ghana\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gyan: Luis Su\u00e1rez Is The Most Hated Man In Ghana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Luis Suarez caused heartache for the Black Stars and Ghana fans Liverpool striker Luis Su\u00e1rez is still \u201cthe most hated man in Ghana\u201d after his deliberate handball for Uruguay in last summer\u2019s World Cup quarter-final denied the African country victory, according to Sunderland forward Asamoah Gyan. <\/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-321680","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>Gyan: Luis Su\u00e1rez Is The Most Hated Man In Ghana - 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\/19\/gyan-luis-suarez-is-the-most-hated-man-in-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gyan: Luis Su\u00e1rez Is The Most Hated Man In Ghana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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