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– –<\/span> The Satdio Olimpico reports that the youthful Black Stars striker has signed a long-term contract that will keep him there until 2026.<\/p>\n After signing the contract, Afena-Gyan said, \u201cMy life has changed a lot since I made it into the first team here. I am really happy to have done this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow all I have to do is focus on getting better, and that is exactly what I intend to do as the new season gets underway.\u201d<\/p>\n – –<\/span> General Manager Tiago Pinto believes the new contract would provide the Ghanaian with more room to grow in his role at the club.<\/p>\n With Jose Mourinho as his mentor, \u201cFelix has a tremendous amount of room for improvement,\u201d he stated. \u201cA coach who is important to the development of our young players.\u201d<\/p>\n – –<\/span> Our first-team players and academy players have a good relationship, as seen by this contract extension.<\/p>\n During the 2021\/22 season, Afena-Gyan scored twice for Jose Mourinho\u2019s team.<\/p>\n He and fellow Ghanaian Kamaldeen Sulemana were recently nominated for the 2022 Golden Boy award.<\/p>\n Barcelona\u2019s Pedri won last year\u2019s Golden Boy award for Europe\u2019s greatest young player under the age of 21.<\/p>\n It was Raphael van der Vaart who took home the trophy in its infancy, but the likes of Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe have since won it.<\/p>\n Mohammed Kudus was the sole Ghanaian nominee two years ago, and there will be no Ghanaian footballer on 2021 shortlist.<\/p>\n Even while Afena-Gyan, a promising youngster from AS Roma, is on the shortlist this year, the same cannot be said for Stade Rennes\u2019 Kamaldeen, who has been impressive in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n After Roma\u2019s triumph over Feyenoord in the Europa Conference League final in May, Afena-Gyan became the first Ghanaian footballer to win the competition.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – AS Roma has announced that Ghanaian striker Felix Afena-Gyan has signed a new four-year contract with the Serie A club. The Satdio Olimpico reports that the youthful Black Stars striker has signed a long-term contract that will keep him there until 2026. After signing the contract, Afena-Gyan said, \u201cMy life has changed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4721,6680,338,737,702,5621,340],"class_list":["post-1143443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-4year","tag-afena","tag-contract","tag-felix","tag-gyan","tag-roma","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143443","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=1143443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nAS Roma has announced that Ghanaian striker Felix Afena-Gyan has signed a new four-year contract with the Serie A club.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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