{"id":5777,"date":"2013-01-18T20:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/dede-ayew-breaks-silence\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T20:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:49:57","slug":"dede-ayew-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/18\/dede-ayew-breaks-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dede Ayew Breaks Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/e59111053794_356512.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Ghana international Andre Ayew has disclosed he was shocked to have been left out of the Black Stars squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The left-footed player said although he is not angry about it, the news came as a big disappointment to him since he was committed to make it to South Africa, despite his hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kwesi Appiah excluded the Olympique Marseille winger from his final 23-man squad because he picked up an injury during training in France and failed to meet the reporting deadline in camp in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Fifa Under-20 World Cup winner has been explaining to French newspaper Le Phonceen that he had preferred to start treating his injury in France instead of a spot declaration which was made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Sunday evening, I was taking the plane to the selection, but I got the information at the last minute as I was told by the coach not to come,\u201d Ayew revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was shocking. The coach based on the fact that he only wanted players [who are 100%], which is surprising because apparently there are a lot of casualties there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cDiscipline I speak of, but they were aware that I would be late, discipline. I gave everything for the selection, so it is not easy to accept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not angry, I&#8217;m just disappointed. It made me know some people in the staff and federation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghana is a big nation. There are things happening that are not normal, Kevin Prince Boateng issue shows that there are reasons,\u201d Ayew added.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana international Andre Ayew has disclosed he was shocked to have been left out of the Black Stars squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.The left-footed player said although he is not angry about it, the news came as a big disappointment to him since he was committed to make it to South Africa, despite his hamstring injury.Coach Kwesi Appiah excluded the Olympique Marseille winger from his final 23-man squad because he picked up an injury during training in France and failed to meet the reporting deadline in camp in Abu Dhabi.However, the Fifa Under-20 World Cup winner has been explaining to French newspaper Le Phonceen that he had preferred to start treating his injury in France instead of a spot declaration which was made.\u201cOn Sunday evening, I was taking the plane to the selection, but I got the information at the last minute as I was told by the coach not to come,\u201d Ayew revealed.\u201cIt was shocking. The coach based on the fact that he only wanted players [who are 100%], which is surprising because apparently there are a lot of casualties there.\u201dHe added: \u201cDiscipline I speak of, but they were aware that I would be late, discipline. &#8230;<\/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-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}