{"id":1143722,"date":"2022-07-07T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/felix-afena-gyan-signs-new-long-term-contract-at-as-roma\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:30:16","slug":"felix-afena-gyan-signs-new-long-term-contract-at-as-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/felix-afena-gyan-signs-new-long-term-contract-at-as-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Afena-Gyan Signs New long-term Contract at AS Roma |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana striker Felix Afena-Gyan has committed his future to AS Roma by signing a new long-term contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old has signed a four-year extension that will last until June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Afena-Gyan has made 22 appearances for the Giallorossi, scoring two goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really pleased to have signed this contract: every 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>\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>Afena-Gyan joined the club&#8217;s youth setup in early 2021 and quickly progressed from the Under-18s to the Primavera side before being called up to Jose Mourinho&#8217;s first team squad at the start of the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>After making his professional debut against Cagliari in October 2021, he scored two late goals in an unforgettable substitute appearance against Genoa a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>He has since made his international debut for Ghana, assisting his country&#8217;s qualification for the upcoming World Cup following a hard-fought play-off victory over 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<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Ghanasoccernet.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana striker Felix Afena-Gyan has committed his future to AS Roma by signing a new long-term contract. The 19-year-old has signed a four-year extension that will last until June 30, 2026. Afena-Gyan has made 22 appearances for the Giallorossi, scoring two goals. \u201cI am really pleased to have signed this contract: every since I arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[734,338,737,5205,5621,340],"class_list":["post-1143722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afenagyan","tag-contract","tag-felix","tag-longterm","tag-roma","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143722","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=1143722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}