{"id":1060822,"date":"2022-04-19T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/i-see-nothing-wrong-with-black-stars-captain-playing-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:22:20","slug":"i-see-nothing-wrong-with-black-stars-captain-playing-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/i-see-nothing-wrong-with-black-stars-captain-playing-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"I see nothing wrong with Black Stars captain playing in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"366\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/a1942ec4aa9d6bd4-696x366.jpg\"   alt=\"Andre Ayew\" title=\"Andre Ayew\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Black Stars captain, Andre Ayew, defended his decision to play in Qatar insisting that playing outside Europe is not a backward decision.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old joined Qatari side, Al Sadd last summer after his Swansea City contract expired. The U-20 World Cup winner signed a two-year deal with the club with an option for an additional year.<\/p>\n<p>Following his move to Qatar, Ayew has faced many criticisms with some questioning the competitiveness of the Qatari Stars League, especially for his status as the captain of the national team.<\/p>\n<p>But Ayew has defended his move to the club, emphasizing that it is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t agree [that a Black Stars captain should be playing in Europe],\u201d he told\u00a0<strong>Joy Sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I think when you are in Europe and you don\u2019t know and haven\u2019t played, yes, you always have that vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t blame those who have that vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy and it [transfer to Al Sadd] is not a step down [for me],\u201d Ayew added.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew has been directly involved in 19 goals in 24 games in his debut season at Al Sadd, with his side going on to win the Qatari Stars League for the 2021\/22 season.<\/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=\"dAvnZR1DJhA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (18-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAvnZR1DJhA?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>Andre Ayew Black Stars captain, Andre Ayew, defended his decision to play in Qatar insisting that playing outside Europe is not a backward decision. The 32-year-old joined Qatari side, Al Sadd last summer after his Swansea City contract expired. The U-20 World Cup winner signed a two-year deal with the club with an option for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,1099,3160,2457,95,1030],"class_list":["post-1060822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-captain","tag-playing","tag-qatar","tag-stars","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060822","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=1060822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}