{"id":1218051,"date":"2022-10-07T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/i-am-doing-everything-possible-to-return-to-active-football\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:41:05","slug":"i-am-doing-everything-possible-to-return-to-active-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/i-am-doing-everything-possible-to-return-to-active-football\/","title":{"rendered":"I am doing everything possible to return to active football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/59057259.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana legend, Asamoah Gyan, has reiterated that he is not giving up on active football now, adding that he is working tirelessly to keep in shape.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old, who is a former Black Stars captain, has been out of football for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan, who is a former Liberty Professionals striker, last played for Legon Cities in the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Despite being clubless, Gyan, speaking to Kumasi-based Kessben FM, insisted that he is working tirelessly to return to football.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He added that he is currently in good shape and will hope to return to the pitch soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been training for some time now and I feel good,\u201d the former Legon Cities forward\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will only quit when my body does not respond well but at the moment, I am fit and well and I hope to return soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, I am doing anything possible to come back because football is my passion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan, who played in 2006, 2010, and 2014 World Cup in Germany, South Africa, and Brazil last played for the Black Stars in 2019 during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Egypt.<\/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=\"zyUrtTw_h_k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conditions of Service: Four Public University unions to embark on strike on October 13 (6-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyUrtTw_h_k?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 legend, Asamoah Gyan, has reiterated that he is not giving up on active football now, adding that he is working tirelessly to keep in shape. The 37-year-old, who is a former Black Stars captain, has been out of football for the past two years. Gyan, who is a former Liberty Professionals striker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[609,1542,1970],"class_list":["post-1218051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-active","tag-football","tag-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218051","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=1218051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}