{"id":1215485,"date":"2022-10-03T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/2010-world-cup-the-best-in-history-for-me-gyan\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:17:21","slug":"2010-world-cup-the-best-in-history-for-me-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/2010-world-cup-the-best-in-history-for-me-gyan\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 World Cup the best in history for me &#8211; Gyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/620659-22034188-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer,\u00a0Asamoah Gyan, has rated the 2010 Fifa World Cup hosted in South Africa as the best he has ever witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most prestigious tournament was hosted in Africa for the first in the history of the competition where millions of people from the globe visited Africa.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ghana became the only African country to play in the quarterfinal but suffered an elimination against Uruguay in penalty shootouts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>According to Gyan, the organisation of the tournament made it the best he has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the display of Africa\u2019s rich culture makes the Mundial in 2010 the best he has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the 2010 World Cup was the best World Cup for me,\u201d he told DSTV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most organised World Cup. Everything was fun because it was in Africa for the first time. People wanted to see what Africans can do, people had to fly all over the world to come to Africa. It brought people together. The organisation was excellent and you could see the real culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything was amazing. For me, it was the greatest World Cup I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, however, defeated the Netherlands to lift the trophy with Andres Iniesta scoring the only 116th minute goal during extra time.<\/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=\"vWo5Y5-h7DQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Galamsey: Military swoops on illegal miners frustrated by informants \u2013 commanding Officer (30-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWo5Y5-h7DQ?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 Ghana\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer,\u00a0Asamoah Gyan, has rated the 2010 Fifa World Cup hosted in South Africa as the best he has ever witnessed. The world\u2019s most prestigious tournament was hosted in Africa for the first in the history of the competition where millions of people from the globe visited Africa. However, Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,702,2550,784],"class_list":["post-1215485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-gyan","tag-history","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215485","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=1215485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}