{"id":439450,"date":"2011-06-11T06:29:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/11\/ghana-striker-asamoah-gyan-downplays-penalty-miss-against-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T06:29:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T06:29:14","slug":"ghana-striker-asamoah-gyan-downplays-penalty-miss-against-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/11\/ghana-striker-asamoah-gyan-downplays-penalty-miss-against-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Striker Asamoah Gyan Downplays Penalty Miss Against South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"55\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Akyereko Frimpong-Manson<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31406\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/ghana-striker-asamoah-gyan-downplays-penalty-miss-against-south-korea\/gyanblowkiss-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31406\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/gyanblowkiss-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan wants to continue taking Ghana&#8217;s spot-kicks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Striker Asamoah Gyan says he will continue taking Ghana\u2019s penalty kicks despite fluffing his lines in last Tuesday\u2019s international friendly defeat at South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gyan, 25, is fondly remembered for crashing an extra-time penalty into the goal post in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup against Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>He missed an immediate chance to equalize when he put sent a penalty kick straight into the arms of Jung Sung-ryeong.<\/p>\n<p>This has prompted concerns that Gyan should be stopped from taking penalties but the Sunderland striker has explained those are the dynamics of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI missed a penalty but I scored in the game. I know it\u2019s painful but it is part of the game. One amazing thing is that when I miss a penalty I come back and score but I hope I will score all penalties that will come my way. We played a very good game,\u201d Gyan said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/ghana-striker-asamoah-gyan-downplays-penalty-miss-against-south-korea\/\" title=\"Ghana Striker Asamoah Gyan Downplays Penalty Miss Against South Korea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana Striker Asamoah Gyan Downplays Penalty Miss Against South Korea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. <\/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-439450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana Striker Asamoah Gyan Downplays Penalty Miss Against South Korea - 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