{"id":462900,"date":"2018-02-09T04:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/andre-ayew-hits-back-at-disgraced-west-ham-chief-proud-of-african-roots\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:11:07","slug":"andre-ayew-hits-back-at-disgraced-west-ham-chief-proud-of-african-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/andre-ayew-hits-back-at-disgraced-west-ham-chief-proud-of-african-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ayew hits back at disgraced West Ham chief, &#8216;proud&#8217; of African roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday,  9 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/87981417.295.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Ayew   \" title=\"Andre Ayew   \" width=\"295\" height=\"211\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Andre Ayew<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518149467_10_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana star Andre Ayew has launched a scathing attack at West Ham&#8217;s sacked director of recruitment Tony Henry for questioning the attitude of African players.<\/p>\n<p>The Swansea City said African players are \u201cvery proud\u201d of themselves after the Hammers recruitment boss claimed players from the continent foment trouble in the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham were forced by the circumstances to dismiss Henry after the Daily Mail newspaper revealed his surreptitious plan of limiting the signing of African players.<\/p>\n<p>Henry said Hammers longer wanted to sign African players because \u201cthey have a bad attitude\u201d and \u201ccause mayhem\u201d when not selected, a claim that sparked anger in many quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew was then a player of West Ham when Henry made the comments and had not spoken about the issue since it broke out while he was playing for the Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana international, who left West Ham last week to rejoin Swansea in an \u00a318million deal, has now hit out at the Hammers officials insisting Africans bring success to their sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just know that we African players are proud of ourselves, we know where we have come from, and we believe in our football,&#8221; said Ayew on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;African players &#8212; like Didier Drogba &#8212; have played at the greatest clubs in the world and done their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done a lot to get into professional football and African footballers now play for Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honour to be an African. I am so proud and so happy and I wouldn&#8217;t change it for anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West Ham&#8217;s Senegalese midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate posted &#8220;African and proud&#8221; on his Instagram account the day after Henry&#8217;s comments were made public.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the video of Andre Ayew&#8217;s interview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/02507465\/src\/vv85zk\/zone\/2\/showtitle\/1\/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"undefined\" height=\"undefined\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/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 Friday, 9 February 2018 Source: GHANAsoccernet 2018-02-09 Andre Ayew Ghana star Andre Ayew has launched a scathing attack at West Ham&#8217;s sacked director of recruitment Tony Henry for questioning the attitude of African players. The Swansea City said African players are \u201cvery proud\u201d of themselves after the Hammers recruitment boss claimed players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}