{"id":440274,"date":"2017-11-23T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/23\/ill-captain-black-stars-eric-ayiah\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T11:00:12","slug":"ill-captain-black-stars-eric-ayiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/23\/ill-captain-black-stars-eric-ayiah\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll captain Black Stars &#8211; Eric Ayiah"},"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\/45337152.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ayiah Of U17\" title=\"Ayiah Of U17\" width=\"295\" height=\"277\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Eric Ayiah hopes to captain the Black Stars someday<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511434812_311_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana\u2019s U-17 captain, Eric Ayiah is hopeful to wear the Black Stars captain\u2019s band in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Starlets skipper led Ghana to a second place finish at the Under U-17 AFCON in Gabon and made a quarterfinal finish in the Youth World Cup in India last month.<\/p>\n<p>Ayiah came under a barrage of criticism for his dip in performance at the just ended World Cup in India but believes these negative comments propel him on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese criticisms motivates me a lot especially the bad ones. I just want my fans to pray for me so I can progress with my captain\u2019s band to the U-20 and even to the Black Stars,\u201d he told Starr Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The former Charity Stars player was honoured with a ceremonial match on Wednesday by his manager for his leadership role at the two youth tournaments.<\/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>Eric Ayiah hopes to captain the Black Stars someday Ghana\u2019s U-17 captain, Eric Ayiah is hopeful to wear the Black Stars captain\u2019s band in the near future. The Black Starlets skipper led Ghana to a second place finish at the Under U-17 AFCON in Gabon and made a quarterfinal finish in the Youth World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":429829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019ll captain Black Stars - Eric Ayiah - 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\/11\/23\/ill-captain-black-stars-eric-ayiah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I\u2019ll captain Black Stars - Eric Ayiah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Eric Ayiah hopes to captain the Black Stars someday Ghana\u2019s U-17 captain, Eric Ayiah is hopeful to wear the Black Stars captain\u2019s band in the near future. 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