{"id":424050,"date":"2017-10-01T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/01\/i-have-no-issue-with-ayew-family-appiah\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T10:30:28","slug":"i-have-no-issue-with-ayew-family-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/01\/i-have-no-issue-with-ayew-family-appiah\/","title":{"rendered":"I have no issue with Ayew family \u2013 Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday,  1 October 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-10-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/32935231.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Appiah Smirk\" title=\"Kwesi Appiah Smirk\" width=\"295\" height=\"155\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Coach Kwesi Appiah claims that decision was just to give the opportunity to other players<\/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\/10\/1506853828_428_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah has dismissed claims that his decision to overlook Andre and Jordan Ayew ahead of the Fifa World Cup qualifier against Uganda next month is because of hatred for the Ayew family..<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old gaffer has announced a 26-man provisional squad to be whittled down to 23, with the Ayew brothers missing out.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has led to several discussions among Ghanaians with some suggesting that the coach\u2019s hatred for the Ayew family influenced his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Sola Ayew, brother of the players\u2019 father Abedi Pele Ayew, has launched a scathing attack at Appiah, insisting that the coach has been harbouring hatred against the family since 1992 after Abedi was made captain of Ghana ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>But Appiah claims the decision was just to give other players the opportunity to show what they can do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [overlook of the Ayew brothers] has nothing to do with that because there\u2019s no issue [between me and the family],\u201d Appiah told GNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the calibre of Andre and Jordan Ayew already and if we want to build a team for the future, then we need to give other players the chance to also prove themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are playing well in the Premier League [so I didn\u2019t drop them for lack of form],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana sit third in Group E with five points, four points behind leaders Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 43 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>Sports News of Sunday, 1 October 2017 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2017-10-01 Coach Kwesi Appiah claims that decision was just to give the opportunity to other players &#13; Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah has dismissed claims that his decision to overlook Andre and Jordan Ayew ahead of the Fifa World Cup qualifier against Uganda next month is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I have no issue with Ayew family \u2013 Appiah - 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\/10\/01\/i-have-no-issue-with-ayew-family-appiah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I have no issue with Ayew family \u2013 Appiah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Sunday, 1 October 2017 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2017-10-01 Coach Kwesi Appiah claims that decision was just to give the opportunity to other players &#013; 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