{"id":1109585,"date":"2022-06-03T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/03\/i-do-not-regret-choosing-germany-over-ghana-former-german-international\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T20:28:13","slug":"i-do-not-regret-choosing-germany-over-ghana-former-german-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/03\/i-do-not-regret-choosing-germany-over-ghana-former-german-international\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Do Not Regret Choosing Germany Over Ghana&#8221;-Former German International."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Gerald Asamoah in an interview with Peace FM said that he doesn&#8217;t regret choosing Germany over Ghana. He said he game strong considerations before he pledged allegiance to the football powerhouse. Source<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6d873ded7e0344ecac0df06b01ceb363\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I have no regret, at that moment it was the best decision that I took. Maybe I would have taken a different decision now that Otto Addo is the coach but at the time it was one of the best decisions.&#8221; &#8220;It has helped a lot and I love Ghana and watch Ghana. I&#8217;m a Ghanaian but the decision to play Germany I the best I took&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/c63db30f27dd4161bff06644ccde14e0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview, he disclosed how he faced racial discrimination when he was playing for the German National team. &#8220;<strong>I suffered racial chants severally and many Germans could not understand why a Black person would be invited to the German National team. Sometimes there were tears in my eyes,&#8221;<\/strong> he said in an interview with DW TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>We played against Canada and I was on the bench. A Canadian came to pass by and was like hey, what are you doing? You playing for Germany? This is crazy, how can you play for Germany?&#8221; <\/strong>he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/3f5e3903474a48a5be4f72e77e93992d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He laid in the 2002 and 2006 World Cups with Germany. He has made 43 appearances for them and has scored 6 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Truth_ink (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\">\nGerald Asamoah<br \/>\nGerman International<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nOtto Addo<br \/>\nPeace FM<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Asamoah in an interview with Peace FM said that he doesn&#8217;t regret choosing Germany over Ghana. He said he game strong considerations before he pledged allegiance to the football powerhouse. Source &#8220;I have no regret, at that moment it was the best decision that I took. Maybe I would have taken a different decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1109586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9277,4130,4041,16121,2444,2662],"class_list":["post-1109585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-choosing","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-ghanaformer","tag-international","tag-regret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109585","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=1109585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}