{"id":430373,"date":"2017-10-19T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/19\/fifa-u-17-world-cup-give-ayiah-a-break-fabin-tells-critics\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:00:26","slug":"fifa-u-17-world-cup-give-ayiah-a-break-fabin-tells-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/19\/fifa-u-17-world-cup-give-ayiah-a-break-fabin-tells-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA U-17 World Cup: Give Ayiah a break \u2013 Fabin tells critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/65550754.295.jpg\" alt=\"Starlertsindia\" title=\"Starlertsindia\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana coach Paa Kwesi Fabin says Ghanaians should not be overly critical of Ayiah<\/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\/1508454026_665_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Head coach of Ghana\u2019s Black Starlets, Samuel Paa Kwesi Fabin has called on supporters to tone down on what he describes as \u2018over the top\u2019 criticism of his captain, Eric Ayiah at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe striker has made a substantial impact at the U-17 World Cup in India, scoring 3 goals in 4 games for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ayiah\u2019s profligacy in front of goal has not gone unnoticed to Ghanaians, some of whom have taken to social media to criticize the youngster and this is a big worry to his coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin.<\/p>\n<p>Ayiah failed to score in Ghana\u2019s opening two games but he came alive in the last Group game against India and scored twice. He was also on target in the Round of 16 clash against Niger despite missing a penalty in the same game.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlets captain is only two goals adrift of the current top scorer of the tournament, Amine Gouiri.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Ghana coach who is aware that his skipper is not the finish article yet say, the criticism is becoming a tad too much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do they know about him to criticize him, he is our skipper and he is doing well,\u201d Fabin told starrsportsgh.com after the Starlets game against Niger in Mumbai.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe added: \u201cWhat do they want him to do again, the guy has scored three goals and is doing very well, I don\u2019t even know what else they want from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric Ayiah will lead the Black Starlets again when they meet in Mali in the quarter-final stage of the competition on Saturday morning.<\/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>Ghana coach Paa Kwesi Fabin says Ghanaians should not be overly critical of Ayiah &#13; Head coach of Ghana\u2019s Black Starlets, Samuel Paa Kwesi Fabin has called on supporters to tone down on what he describes as \u2018over the top\u2019 criticism of his captain, Eric Ayiah at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.&#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":429852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430373","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>FIFA U-17 World Cup: Give Ayiah a break \u2013 Fabin tells critics - 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\/19\/fifa-u-17-world-cup-give-ayiah-a-break-fabin-tells-critics\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"FIFA U-17 World Cup: Give Ayiah a break \u2013 Fabin tells critics - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana coach Paa Kwesi Fabin says Ghanaians should not be overly critical of Ayiah &#013; 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