Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan admits he needs to polish his penalty kicks to ensure that he becomes the complete striker whose skills of goal scoring are not restricted.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe admission comes in the wake of crucial penalty misses for the Stars at both the last World Cup and last week\u2019s international friendly away in South Korea.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though I know my strength as a striker, I think I devote more attention to improving my penalty kicks, I have no doubts about what I can do but when it becomes so frequent, then it becomes boring and worrying,\u201d he admitted in an interview.<\/p>\n
He rejected the assertion that his inability to often convert penalty kicks was more of a psychological problem and said that might be attributed to a misjudgement on his part.<\/p>\n
\u201c I\u2019m a mentally strong person so it can\u2019t be that I develop the cold feet when it comes to taking penalties. More often than not, I\u2019m not forced to do it, I elect myself to take the kicks because I know I\u2019m good at it, but I believe sometimes, it\u2019s good to reflect on what happens and see what can be done to inmprove it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThankfully, I\u2019m able to motivate myself after such misses and I get back strongly into the game and sometimes even score, so I won\u2019t say it\u2019s a big problem. But definitely, if I have to do some extra work, to improve upon that aspect of my game why not. That\u2019s why I\u2019m a professional not an amateur,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
In a friendly international against South Korea last week, the Sunderland striker missed yet another penalty kick and that has sent the 25-year-old marksman, rethinking.<\/p>\n
Gyan is most remembered around the world for missing that decisive penalty against Uruguay at the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. But, he recovered and converted Ghana\u2019s first penalty in the shoot-out of that same match which was eventually won by Uruguay.<\/p>\n
Had Gyan converted the first penalty that he missed, Ghana would have qualified for the semi-finals of the tournament, the first time that an African side would have achieved that feat.<\/p>\n
The miss against South Korea was the second within a year and again, he came back strongly to net the Stars\u2019 goal in the 1-2 result in favour of the Koreans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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