{"id":345393,"date":"2011-03-28T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/asamoah-gyan-sets-sights-on-making-history-at-wembley-stadium-in-international-friendly\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:59:03","slug":"asamoah-gyan-sets-sights-on-making-history-at-wembley-stadium-in-international-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/asamoah-gyan-sets-sights-on-making-history-at-wembley-stadium-in-international-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan Sets Sights On Making History At Wembley Stadium In International Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"92\">\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<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/asamoahgyanworldcup1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26001\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ef8ca4c2up1-300x145.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Asamoah Gyan, the Ghana striker, is setting his sights on making history against former \u201dcolonial masters\u201d by helping his country become the first African nation to beat England on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sunderland player and his colleagues will be out to secure a niche in football folklore in the friendly at Wembley and underline the vast promise of their continent\u2019s footballers who went a stage further than their England hosts during the last World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Had it not been for Luis Suarez\u2019s \u2018Hand of God\u2019 moment for Uruguay last summer, Ghana would have become the first African team to reach the World Cup semi-finals but now Gyan is focusing on rewriting the record books against England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dStatistically no African side has ever beaten England so we will go there to try our luck,\u201d Gyan said. \u201dI have never played at Wembley so it is like a dream come true. This is a huge game for us Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be massive support for us. I have had so many calls from people asking for tickets-I don\u2019t know how to get them though. England have been our colonial masters so everyone in Ghana knows about them. If we are not playing everyone at home always supports the English team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI hope one day England will win the World Cup because they have the players. But maybe we will get there first. We proved that in South Africa. We showed we are capable of winning. We have young players who will be able to do it next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>precedent for Africa by beating England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s going to be the first time,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201dIt\u2019s always great to make history so definitely we want to do well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe can do it. Most of the time Ghanaian players and people love a challenge and seeing this as one of the biggest games we\u2019ve ever played we want to show what we\u2019re capable of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMaybe in a couple of years Africa will be top, it\u2019ll be hard for Europe and the rest of the world teams to beat African ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMost African countries make sure the young players grow up there before they leave. They have a lot of good facilities and academies and most of the top players are playing at the bigger clubs in Europe. Everyone has the ambition to follow that route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Stars bleary-eyed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana got the perfect boost only 48 hours ahead of their clash with England at Wembley when they crushed Congo 3-0 on Sunday night in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Playing without the suspended Sunderland forward Asamoah Gyan, Serbia-based strikers Prince Tagoe and Dominic Adiyiah scored in the first half for the 2010 World Cup quarter-finalists and midfielder Sully Muntari added a third goal just before full-time.<\/p>\n<p>With only one team sure to go through, from their four-team qualifying group, Ghana could not afford to slip up before the bleary-eyed flight from the Congo to face England tomorrow night in front of at least 20,000 Ghana supporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Telegraph <\/strong><\/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\/ef8ca4c2up1-300x145.jpg-150x145.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/asamoah-gyan-sets-sights-on-making-history-at-wembley-stadium-in-international-friendly\/\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan Sets Sights On Making History At Wembley Stadium In International Friendly\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asamoah Gyan Sets Sights On Making History At Wembley Stadium In International Friendly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Asamoah Gyan Asamoah Gyan, the Ghana striker, is setting his sights on making history against former \u201dcolonial masters\u201d by helping his country become the first African nation to beat England on Tuesday. The Sunderland player and his colleagues will be out to secure a niche in football folklore in the friendly at Wembley and underline the vast promise of their continent\u2019s footballers who went a stage further than their England hosts during the last World Cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asamoah Gyan Sets Sights On Making History At Wembley Stadium In International Friendly - 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\/28\/asamoah-gyan-sets-sights-on-making-history-at-wembley-stadium-in-international-friendly\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan Sets Sights On Making History At Wembley Stadium In International Friendly - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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