{"id":351887,"date":"2011-03-31T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/asamoah-gyan-im-disappointed-i-couldnt-dance\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:46:48","slug":"asamoah-gyan-im-disappointed-i-couldnt-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/asamoah-gyan-im-disappointed-i-couldnt-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan: I&#8217;m Disappointed I Couldn&#8217;t Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Asamoah Gyan said he wasn\u2019t sure what he was doing before scoring his stunning equaliser for Ghana against England at Wembley \u2014 but wished he could have celebrated his \u201chistoric goal\u201d with a dance afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old striker, who moved to Sunderland after his outstanding performances for Ghana in last year\u2019s World Cup, struck in stoppage time to give his side a richly-deserved 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Collecting the ball on the edge of the penalty area he jinked one way and another, dummied England defender Joleon Lescott twice then curled a left-foot shot into the far corner of Joe Hart\u2019s net. Gyan will always be remembered for missing the penalty against Uruguay that would have taken Ghana into the semi-finals of the World Cup but now also has his country\u2019s first goal against England on his soccer CV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy because it\u2019s an important goal for the country and for the fans,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cI was twisting and turning, but honestly, I didn\u2019t know what I was doing, I was just trying to protect the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe English defenders are very intelligent, but they did not know if I was going to pass the ball, but I thought, well they might push me down, but they didn\u2019t do that, so I thought, I\u2019ve got a chance, so I took my chance.\u201d \u201cThis goal is something historic \u2014 its the first goal we\u2019ve scored against England.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if this was the \u201c64 million dollar goal\u201d that will make Europe\u2019s big teams sit up and take notice of him, he replied: \u201cNo, I am a player at Sunderland, I am just concentrating on that. I am very young, I have lots more to do in football, so I am just working hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to dance after scoring it, the atmosphere was wild \u2014 I didn\u2019t get the chance to dance because suddenly everyone else was on top of me, but maybe I will next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal gave Ghana a deserved draw in a superb match in which England coach Fabio Capello made seven changes from the side that beat Wales 2-0 in a Euro qualifier on Saturday, giving debuts to second-half substitutes Matt Jarvis and Danny Welbeck and a first start to Gary Cahill after two substitute appearances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1991-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/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> Asamoah Gyan said he wasn\u2019t sure what he was doing before scoring his stunning equaliser for Ghana against England at Wembley \u2014 but wished he could have celebrated his \u201chistoric goal\u201d with a dance afterwards. The 25-year-old striker, who moved to Sunderland after his outstanding performances for Ghana in last year\u2019s World Cup, struck in stoppage time to give his side a richly-deserved 1-1 draw. Collecting the ball on the edge of the penalty area he jinked one way and another, dummied England defender Joleon Lescott twice then curled a left-foot shot into the far corner of Joe Hart\u2019s net. <\/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-351887","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>Asamoah Gyan: I&#039;m Disappointed I Couldn&#039;t Dance - 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\/31\/asamoah-gyan-im-disappointed-i-couldnt-dance\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan: I&#039;m Disappointed I Couldn&#039;t Dance - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan said he wasn\u2019t sure what he was doing before scoring his stunning equaliser for Ghana against England at Wembley \u2014 but wished he could have celebrated his \u201chistoric goal\u201d with a dance afterwards. 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