{"id":427640,"date":"2017-10-11T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/11\/asamoah-gyan-praises-kwesi-appiah-for-dropping-ayew-brothers\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:00:28","slug":"asamoah-gyan-praises-kwesi-appiah-for-dropping-ayew-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/11\/asamoah-gyan-praises-kwesi-appiah-for-dropping-ayew-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan &#8216;praises&#8217; Kwesi Appiah for dropping Ayew Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/70937907.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ayews And Gyan\" title=\"Ayews And Gyan\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asamoah Gyan says he had no hand in the exclusion of the Ayews<\/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\/1507734028_357_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has refuted claims that he played a role in Andre and Jordan Ayew\u2019s exclusion from the Black Stars\u2019 game against Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The Ayew brothers have heavily been criticized by football pundits after the duo excused themselves from Ghana\u2019s World Cup qualifier against Congo which the four-time African champions won 5-1 in Brazzaville.<\/p>\n<p>And Kwesi Appiah in his latest call-up dropped the Ayew brothers and there have been reports that Gyan engineered the exclusion of the Andre and Jordan from the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also a player in the team and even as a captain I am under the coach. The coach makes his decision and it is normal for people to complain when he makes decisions like this,\u201d he told Accra-based Hot FM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day I am not the coach to be making decisions. Although everybody knows the experience and quality of Jordan and Dede Ayew in the national team but it is the decision of the coach to invite them into the national team or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody is entitled to his opinion as to why the Ayews were dropped. I will not blame anybody but will blame those who are trying to create rivalry between me and the Ayews in the Black Stars which is not helping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the coach who has made his decision. 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The Ayew brothers have heavily been criticized by football pundits after the duo excused themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":422979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427640","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 &#039;praises&#039; Kwesi Appiah for dropping Ayew Brothers - 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\/11\/asamoah-gyan-praises-kwesi-appiah-for-dropping-ayew-brothers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan &#039;praises&#039; Kwesi Appiah for dropping Ayew Brothers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan says he had no hand in the exclusion of the Ayews &#013; Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has refuted claims that he played a role in Andre and Jordan Ayew\u2019s exclusion from the Black Stars\u2019 game against Uganda. 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