{"id":1070655,"date":"2022-04-29T09:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T09:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/i-still-hate-suarez-ex-ghana-president-tells-asamoah-gyan\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T09:04:47","slug":"i-still-hate-suarez-ex-ghana-president-tells-asamoah-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/i-still-hate-suarez-ex-ghana-president-tells-asamoah-gyan\/","title":{"rendered":"I still hate Suarez \u2013 Ex-Ghana President tells Asamoah Gyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1651162277_103_113170333_suarezhandball-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Luis Suarez said he made the 'save of the tournament'\" title=\"Luis Suarez said he made the 'save of the tournament'\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Suarez said he made the &#8216;save of the tournament&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former President, John Dramani Mahama has said\u00a0he hasn\u2019t forgiven\u00a0Luis Suarez\u00a0over his handball incident that denied Ghana a place in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The former Barcelona and Liverpool forward is famously remembered for preventing Dominic Adiyiah\u2019s goal-bound\u00a0header in a quarterfinal game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan failed to convert the failed to score after the Black Stars were awarded a spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p>The South Americans subsequently qualified for the semifinals after winning 4-2 in a penalty shootout despite Suarez being sent off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Mahama believes the Black Stars would have won the competition, but for the Uruguay striker\u2019s unsporting moment that broke the hearts of many Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 NDC flagbearer said this when Asamoah Gyan and his team visited him to invite him to the launch of the veteran striker\u2019s autobiography, titled \u2018LeGyandary\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John-Mahama.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2109828\"  \/><figcaption><strong>John Mahama <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c2010 was our opportunity but you know what Suarez did. We know that sometimes legends miss penalties,\u201d\u00a0Mahama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt broke the heart of all of Africa and I\u2019ve never forgiven Suarez for what he did but we put it behind us. We\u2019ve done quite well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>After missing out on the last edition of the Mundial in Russia in 2018, Ghana have made a return to the global showpiece that will be held in Qatar later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana are in Group H alongside, Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea.\u00a0<\/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=\"WVuN7vF90wI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episcopal Clinic: Chief of Tikobo warns health workers to desist from abusing patients (28-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WVuN7vF90wI?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>Luis Suarez said he made the &#8216;save of the tournament&#8217; Former President, John Dramani Mahama has said\u00a0he hasn\u2019t forgiven\u00a0Luis Suarez\u00a0over his handball incident that denied Ghana a place in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup. The former Barcelona and Liverpool forward is famously remembered for preventing Dominic Adiyiah\u2019s goal-bound\u00a0header in a quarterfinal game.\u00a0 Asamoah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[701,399,702,10811,275,7018,700],"class_list":["post-1070655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asamoah","tag-exghana","tag-gyan","tag-hate","tag-president","tag-suarez","tag-tells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070655","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=1070655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}