{"id":1143709,"date":"2022-07-07T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/afena-gyan-signs-long-term-deal-at-as-roma\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:17:15","slug":"afena-gyan-signs-long-term-deal-at-as-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/afena-gyan-signs-long-term-deal-at-as-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Afena-Gyan signs long term deal at AS Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"454\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_161400-1024x668-1-696x454.jpg\"   alt=\"Felix Afena-Gyan signs new deal at AS Roma\" title=\"Felix Afena-Gyan signs new deal at AS Roma\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felix Afena-Gyan signs new deal at AS Roma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana striker, Felix Afena-Gyan has signed a long-term deal with Serie A giants, AS Roma.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old signed a new four-year deal until 30th June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The young promising forward made 22 appearances for the Giallorossi to date, scoring two goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really pleased to have signed this contract: ever since I arrived at this club my aim was to reach the first team and since I did that my life has changed a lot,\u201d Afena-Gyan said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I need to just concentrate on continuing to improve, I am motived to start the new season in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having joined the club\u2019s youth setup in the early part of 2021, Felix quickly progressed from the Under-18s to the Primavera side and then, at the start of the 2021-22 campaign, he was called up to Jose Mourinho\u2019s first-team squad.<\/p>\n<p>After making his professional debut against Cagliari in October 2021, a few weeks later he opened his account for the club with two late goals in an unforgettable substitute appearance against Genoa.<\/p>\n<p>He has since gone on to make his international debut for Ghana, helping his country qualify for the upcoming World Cup after a hard-fought playoff victory against Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFelix has vast room for improvement and has the opportunity to make the most of that potential under the guidance of Jose Mourinho, a coach who is pivotal to the development of our young players,\u201d said Tiago Pinto, the club\u2019s General Manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contract extension also represents another demonstration of how the link between our first-team squad and our academy setup continues to get stronger.\u201d<\/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=\"93F4sNC7fRk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Contractor completes permanent reinstatement of damaged Jukwa road \u2013 Adom TV News (6-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93F4sNC7fRk?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>Felix Afena-Gyan signs new deal at AS Roma Ghana striker, Felix Afena-Gyan has signed a long-term deal with Serie A giants, AS Roma. The 19-year-old signed a new four-year deal until 30th June 2026. The young promising forward made 22 appearances for the Giallorossi to date, scoring two goals. \u201cI am really pleased to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[734,807,2406,5621,340,4722],"class_list":["post-1143709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afenagyan","tag-deal","tag-long","tag-roma","tag-signs","tag-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143709","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=1143709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}