{"id":1181627,"date":"2022-08-17T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/former-sports-minister-against-asamoah-gyans-black-stars-return\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:51:33","slug":"former-sports-minister-against-asamoah-gyans-black-stars-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/former-sports-minister-against-asamoah-gyans-black-stars-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sports Minister against Asamoah Gyan&#8217;s Black Stars return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"362\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ASA-696x362.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Edward Omane Boamah, is among the few who oppose Asamoah Gyan\u2019s wish to return to the Black Stars for 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan, who revealed to BBC\u2019s John Bennett of his desire to play for the national team, is yet to return to action after being sidelined for two years due to injury problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything can happen, it has happened before back in 1994 when Roger Milla came back from retirement to play in the World Cup,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dBut I haven\u2019t retired yet, I haven\u2019t announced my retirement, I have been out for almost two years now due to injuries and my body shutting down.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just need to get my body back in shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Former Minister of Communications believes the striker\u2019s time with the Black Stars team has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsamoah Gyan has served our nation very well. He has received National honours and we thank him for his dedicated service,\u201d he wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us not dishonour him by featuring him as a footballer in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The modern game has intricate dynamics with extraordinary energy and match fitness demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEKOBoamah%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0xdwRV7sA5A7mfCPwKYjYb9VcfTnjZankWX2tfhLbQhAoreL745ewjRurEWiXBMxGl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"gNvlR_oRg9M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gNvlR_oRg9M?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>Asamoah Gyan Former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Edward Omane Boamah, is among the few who oppose Asamoah Gyan\u2019s wish to return to the Black Stars for 2022 World Cup. Gyan, who revealed to BBC\u2019s John Bennett of his desire to play for the national team, is yet to return to action after being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[701,94,1799,1223,1970,871,95],"class_list":["post-1181627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asamoah","tag-black","tag-gyans","tag-minister","tag-return","tag-sports","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181627","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=1181627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}