{"id":1194564,"date":"2022-08-30T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/ghana-forward-felix-afena-gyan-joins-cremonese\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:00:17","slug":"ghana-forward-felix-afena-gyan-joins-cremonese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/ghana-forward-felix-afena-gyan-joins-cremonese\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana forward Felix Afena-Gyan joins Cremonese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/felix-giachetta-1024x683-1-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"felix-giachetta-1024x683\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ghana striker, Felix Afena-Gyan, has officially joined Italian Serie A side,\u00a0US Cremonese.<\/p>\n<p>The promising young forward joined the club from AS Roma.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old signed a five-year contract worth \u20ac7 million with the Giovanni Zini Stadium outfit.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s official statement reads \u201cUS Cremonese announces that it has definitively acquired from As Roma the right to the sports performances of the footballer Felix Afena-Gyan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Afena-Gyan joined AS Roma from Ghanaian based EurAfrica in January 2021 where he had a breakthrough after excelling for the youth team before he was promoted to the senior team by Portuguese gaffer Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was one of the most important players that helped Ghana to book a place in the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar later this year by eliminating Nigeria in the final play-off round.<\/p>\n<p>Afena-Gyan scored two goals in his 17 appearances for AS Roma during the short stay.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the AS Roma squad that won the maiden edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League last season.<\/p>\n<p>Afena-Gyan has so far made six\u00a0appearances and a goal with the Ghana shirt and he is expected to make the squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later this year.<\/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=\"iwRmg_oKkLs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He told me he will marry me - Woman Laments - Obra on Adom TV.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwRmg_oKkLs?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>Ghana striker, Felix Afena-Gyan, has officially joined Italian Serie A side,\u00a0US Cremonese. The promising young forward joined the club from AS Roma. The 19-year-old signed a five-year contract worth \u20ac7 million with the Giovanni Zini Stadium outfit. The club\u2019s official statement reads \u201cUS Cremonese announces that it has definitively acquired from As Roma the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[734,23362,737,85,658],"class_list":["post-1194564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afenagyan","tag-cremonese","tag-felix","tag-ghana","tag-joins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194564","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=1194564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}