{"id":417895,"date":"2017-09-13T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/13\/akunnor-wants-kwadwo-asamoah-back-to-stars\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:00:21","slug":"akunnor-wants-kwadwo-asamoah-back-to-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/13\/akunnor-wants-kwadwo-asamoah-back-to-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Akunnor wants Kwadwo Asamoah back to Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 13 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Goal.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-09-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/26043693.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwadwo Asamoah For Juve\" title=\"Kwadwo Asamoah For Juve\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwadwo Asamoah<\/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\/1505311221_313_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Ghana captain Charles Akunnor is the latest to call for the return of Juventus midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah to the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The playmaker has been out of the national set-up since 2014, largely due to injury troubles.<\/p>\n<p>Having regained full fitness ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations early this year, the 28-year-old surprisingly turned down a call-up, opting to focus on his club career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why the boy [Asamoah] has refused to come play for the nation, maybe there is something we don\u2019t know,\u201d Akunnor told Happy FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was one of the key players when he played for Ghana and we always looked up to him to deliver and he delivered all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not the only one [needed in the team]; I think we have a lot of talent who play in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are spoilt for choice but when we start to have the situation where players are refusing to come, it becomes an issue for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the authorities or the manager himself should sit with the players and talk to them so they come help the Black Stars because we need their quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah has represented Ghana at six tournaments comprising four Afcon events and two World Cup gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>He last featured for the Black Stars in a 2015 AFCON qualifier against Uganda in September 2014.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/53372278.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; 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Former Ghana captain Charles Akunnor is the latest to call for the return of Juventus midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah to the Black Stars. The playmaker has been out of the national set-up since 2014, largely due to injury troubles. Having regained full fitness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417895","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>Akunnor wants Kwadwo Asamoah back to Stars - 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\/13\/akunnor-wants-kwadwo-asamoah-back-to-stars\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Akunnor wants Kwadwo Asamoah back to Stars - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Wednesday, 13 September 2017 Source: Goal.com 2017-09-13 Kwadwo Asamoah &#013; Former Ghana captain Charles Akunnor is the latest to call for the return of Juventus midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah to the Black Stars. 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