{"id":1060885,"date":"2022-04-19T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/asamoah-gyan-aims-to-finish-career-at-asante-kotoko\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:14:00","slug":"asamoah-gyan-aims-to-finish-career-at-asante-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/asamoah-gyan-aims-to-finish-career-at-asante-kotoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan aims to finish career at Asante Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Asamoah-Gyan-Ghana-Afcon-2019-696x418.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has reignited his interest in playing for Ghana Premier League side, Asante Kotoko before he retires.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old is well known to be a fan of the Porcupine Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the 2020\/21 Ghana Premier League campaign, Gyan was strongly linked to the club but ended up signing a one-year deal with Legon Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, the former Sunderland and Stade Rennais forward expressed his love for the Ghana Premier League heavyweights while admitting the Kumasi-based side will be his next club should he want a return to the local scene.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to play for Asante Kotoko if I have to return [to playing football again]. I am a huge fan of the club,\u201d Gyan Accra-based<strong>\u00a0Joy FM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kotoko are currently the league leaders of the 2021\/22 Premier League season, boasting of an eight-point gap at the top of the league table after 25 games.<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan is the country\u2019s all top goal scorer with 51 goals having played in 2006, 2010, and 2014 World Cups in Germany, South Africa, and Brazil respectively.<\/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=\"X16QVoy3aBQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Ghana Nkommo on Adom TV (19-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X16QVoy3aBQ?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 Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has reignited his interest in playing for Ghana Premier League side, Asante Kotoko before he retires. The 36-year-old is well known to be a fan of the Porcupine Warriors. Before the start of the 2020\/21 Ghana Premier League campaign, Gyan was strongly linked to the club but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4578,701,213,743,3149,702,16],"class_list":["post-1060885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aims","tag-asamoah","tag-asante","tag-career","tag-finish","tag-gyan","tag-kotoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060885","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=1060885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}