{"id":1254992,"date":"2022-11-21T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/21\/ghanaians-want-to-see-black-stars-beat-uruguay\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:54:42","slug":"ghanaians-want-to-see-black-stars-beat-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/21\/ghanaians-want-to-see-black-stars-beat-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians want to see Black Stars beat Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/E9A-J8uWEAIJbbd-750x536-1-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Black Stars striker, Asamoah Gyan, says Ghanaians are eager to see the team seek revenge against Uruguay at the 2022 World Cup group stage clash considering their history.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u00a0was on the verge of history in 2010 \u2013 becoming the first African team to reach the semi-finals of a senior World Cup before Luis Suarez struck.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Adiyah\u2019s header from a free kick in the stoppage time was deliberately handled on the goal line by Suarez, although he got sent off.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Gyan failed to convert the resulting spot-kick before Uruguay triumphed on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in Ghana is waiting for the game against Uruguay because of what happened in 2010,\u201d\u00a0Gyan said as a co-anchor on a SuperSport World Cup show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel like it is our opportunity to get revenge,\u201d the country\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer with 51 goals added.<\/p>\n<p>While Suarez is still active and will most definitely feature against Ghana, Gyan is retired and will only participate as a TV analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will meet Uruguay in their last Group H game on December 2. The Black Stars will open their campaign against Portugal before taking on South Korea.<\/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=\"9l2D73c42c8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nnawotwi Yi on Adom TV (19-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9l2D73c42c8?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 Black Stars striker, Asamoah Gyan, says Ghanaians are eager to see the team seek revenge against Uruguay at the 2022 World Cup group stage clash considering their history. Ghana\u00a0was on the verge of history in 2010 \u2013 becoming the first African team to reach the semi-finals of a senior World Cup before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,94,834,95,6994],"class_list":["post-1254992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-black","tag-ghanaians","tag-stars","tag-uruguay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254992","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=1254992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}