{"id":1053234,"date":"2022-04-11T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/11\/asamoah-gyan-shares-his-biggest-career-regret\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:17:11","slug":"asamoah-gyan-shares-his-biggest-career-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/11\/asamoah-gyan-shares-his-biggest-career-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan shares his biggest career regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"362\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ASA-696x362.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former\u00a0Black Stars\u00a0captain,\u00a0Asamoah Gyan,\u00a0has admitted that\u00a0not partaking in the penalty shootouts during Ghana\u2019s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] final against Ivory Coast is his biggest career regret.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana was on the verge of ending its trophy drought in Equitorial Guinea under former Chelsea boss, Avram Grant.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gyan was substituted a few minutes to end the extra time and therefore missed the shootouts and was replaced by Emmanuel Agyemang Badu.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, subsequently lost the shootouts 9-8 despite Ivory Coast missing their first two.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>In an interview, the\u00a0Black Stars\u2019 all-time top-scorer said he could have helped the team to win the shootouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say in 2015 when I had to ask for a change when we played against Ivory Coast,\u201d the former Al Ain and Sunderland forward told Accra-based\u00a0<strong>Peace FM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel if I had stayed on the pitch, I think I would have played in the penalty shoutouts but due to certain things and what they had been saying I felt I had to give somebody the opportunity to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that lots of things accounted for why he opted to be subbed off a few minutes before the penalty shouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had already said I was not going to take a penalty (for Ghana again) which is why I asked for the substitution. But there were a lot of things involved as to why I asked for the change not only the issue of penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a lot of things going on that is why I asked for the change. So I will say that is my biggest regret as a captain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan\u00a0was pivotal for Ghana in the tournament that took place in Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan\u2019s last game for the Black Stars was during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"aOby8VUQmr8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom Kasiebo Tau on Adom TV at 3: 00 (11-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOby8VUQmr8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asamoah Gyan Former\u00a0Black Stars\u00a0captain,\u00a0Asamoah Gyan,\u00a0has admitted that\u00a0not partaking in the penalty shootouts during Ghana\u2019s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] final against Ivory Coast is his biggest career regret. Ghana was on the verge of ending its trophy drought in Equitorial Guinea under former Chelsea boss, Avram Grant. However, Gyan was substituted a few minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[701,2229,743,702,2662,478],"class_list":["post-1053234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asamoah","tag-biggest","tag-career","tag-gyan","tag-regret","tag-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}