{"id":440407,"date":"2017-11-23T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/23\/asamoah-gyan-delighted-with-world-cup-record\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:00:25","slug":"asamoah-gyan-delighted-with-world-cup-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/23\/asamoah-gyan-delighted-with-world-cup-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan delighted with World Cup record"},"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\/91973912.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah Gyan34\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan34\" width=\"295\" height=\"344\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asamoah Gyan is Africa&#8217;s all-time leading scorer at the World Cup<\/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\/1511463625_649_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan is delighted to have broken Cameroon legend Roger Milla&#8217;s all-time Africa World Cup record.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan, 32, became the continent&#8217;s top scorer at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, where he scored for Ghana in their 2-1 loss to the Selec\u00e7\u00e3o of Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The strike was Gyan&#8217;s sixth strike in three World Cup tournaments, one ahead of former Cameroon great Roger Milla, who had held the record as Africa&#8217;s all-time leading scorer since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The Kayserispor hitman took to Twitter on his 32nd birthday to celebrate the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan became Ghana&#8217;s all-time top scorer with 51 goals five months ago when he scored for the Black Stars 5-0 walloping of Ethiopia in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.<\/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>Asamoah Gyan is Africa&#8217;s all-time leading scorer at the World Cup Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan is delighted to have broken Cameroon legend Roger Milla&#8217;s all-time Africa World Cup record. Gyan, 32, became the continent&#8217;s top scorer at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, where he scored for Ghana in their 2-1 loss to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440407","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>Asamoah Gyan delighted with World Cup record - 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\/asamoah-gyan-delighted-with-world-cup-record\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan delighted with World Cup record - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan is Africa&#8217;s all-time leading scorer at the World Cup Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan is delighted to have broken Cameroon legend Roger Milla&#8217;s all-time Africa World Cup record. 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