{"id":416963,"date":"2017-09-11T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/11\/asamoah-gyan-to-quit-national-team-after-2019-afcon\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T06:00:28","slug":"asamoah-gyan-to-quit-national-team-after-2019-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/11\/asamoah-gyan-to-quit-national-team-after-2019-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan to quit national team after 2019 AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/88512192.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah Gyan 100\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan 100\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asamoah Gyan is the longest servingplayer in Ghana\u2019s national team<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505109628_34_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is beginning to think of when he will finally say good bye to the national team and there are reports that it could be after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is the longest serving player in Ghana\u2019s national team having been with the team for the last fourteen years.<\/p>\n<p>However it is very clear that his influence and impact in the team is dwindling after another unimpressive performance against Congo in Kumasi and a contrast in the team while he was out in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>His team have distanced themselves with reports that he is thinking of pulling way but GHANAsoccernet.com understands that Gyan will walk away if the Black Stars are able to bring an end to their trophy drought in Cameroon where the AFCON is scheduled to be held.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asamoah Gyan is the longest servingplayer in Ghana\u2019s national team &#13; Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is beginning to think of when he will finally say good bye to the national team and there are reports that it could be after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. The 31-year-old is the longest serving player in Ghana\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asamoah Gyan to quit national team after 2019 AFCON - 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\/2017\/09\/11\/asamoah-gyan-to-quit-national-team-after-2019-afcon\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan to quit national team after 2019 AFCON - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan is the longest servingplayer in Ghana\u2019s national team &#013; Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is beginning to think of when he will finally say good bye to the national team and there are reports that it could be after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. 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