{"id":1063617,"date":"2022-04-22T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T07:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/former-black-stars-captain-shows-admiration-for-asante-kotoko\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T07:44:57","slug":"former-black-stars-captain-shows-admiration-for-asante-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/former-black-stars-captain-shows-admiration-for-asante-kotoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Black Stars Captain Shows Admiration For Asante Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Black Stars striker, Asamoah Gyan says he admires Ghana Premier League club, Asante Kotoko very much.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/e2f1c2042d0441c68c4f8e7cb7273d00\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has been out of football for sometime since leaving Ghana Premier League club, Legon Cities FC. He made intentions earlier of playing for Asante Kotoko but the deal fell through at the eleventh hour. The former Sunderland striker has now openly declared his desire to wear the red jersey if he has to start playing football again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2a5fd96f4d704c41ae6192c4b9bdad0b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I want to play, I want to play locally, Kotoko. \u201cI\u2019m a huge Kotoko fan, for all these years I was born in Accra and I admired them from afar, some of the players I played with. \u201cI can never disrespect Accra Hearts of Oak but I\u2019m a Kotoko huge fan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/8f22cef9e36945dd89073c1cd9dd0278\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean if I see Accra Hearts I will be.. no no, they are a huge club but I have got my team that I support.\u201d Asamoah Gyan said.\u00a0Gyan is the record African top scorer at the FIFA World Cup as well as Ghana\u2019s all time top scorer.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAsamoah Gyan<br \/>\nAsante Kotoko<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nGhana Premier League<br \/>\nLegon Cities FC.<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Black Stars striker, Asamoah Gyan says he admires Ghana Premier League club, Asante Kotoko very much. The 36-year-old has been out of football for sometime since leaving Ghana Premier League club, Legon Cities FC. He made intentions earlier of playing for Asante Kotoko but the deal fell through at the eleventh hour. The former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9293,213,94,1099,16,962,95],"class_list":["post-1063617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-admiration","tag-asante","tag-black","tag-captain","tag-kotoko","tag-shows","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063617","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=1063617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}