{"id":1248591,"date":"2022-11-11T06:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/were-our-own-enemies-asamoah-gyan-on-black-stars-call-up\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:53:39","slug":"were-our-own-enemies-asamoah-gyan-on-black-stars-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/were-our-own-enemies-asamoah-gyan-on-black-stars-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re our own enemies&#8217; &#8211; Asamoah Gyan on Black Stars call-up \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Asamoah Gyan, a legendary player for Ghana, has said that the country\u2019s citizens are their own worst enemies as they prepare to compete in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The ex-Sunderland footballer has spoken out on the controversy surrounding the Black Stars\u2019 selection for the 2017 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>When the Black Stars made their maiden World Cup participation in 2006, it was under his leadership that they scored their first goal in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0\u201cI went from hero to nothing after Uruguay penalty miss\u201d \u2013 Asamoah Gyan<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He was appointed captain of the team before the 2014 tournament, the only time Ghana did not advance out of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Six of his goals for Ghana came in the 2006, 2010, and 2014 FIFA World Cups, making him the continent\u2019s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"s5ad8WmhE8w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan is NOT serious about his brand\ud83d\udd25 Super Obondede fumes\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5ad8WmhE8w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Asamoah Gyan, a legendary player for Ghana, has said that the country\u2019s citizens are their own worst enemies as they prepare to compete in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The ex-Sunderland footballer has spoken out on the controversy surrounding the Black Stars\u2019 selection for the 2017 FIFA World Cup. When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[701,94,14112,11738,702,95],"class_list":["post-1248591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-asamoah","tag-black","tag-callup","tag-enemies","tag-gyan","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248591","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=1248591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}