{"id":1261317,"date":"2022-12-03T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/03\/no-need-to-blame-andre-ayew-for-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:57:08","slug":"no-need-to-blame-andre-ayew-for-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/03\/no-need-to-blame-andre-ayew-for-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"No need to blame Andre Ayew for Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dede-Ayew-613x424-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Dede-Ayew-613x424\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Otto Addo says he pinned no blame on Andre Ayew after the striker missed a penalty in their 2-0 defeat to Uruguay on Friday that knocked them out of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew\u2019s tame effort was saved by Sergio Rochet in the 21st minute of the Group H encounter at Al Janoub Stadium and Uruguay made them pay with two quick goals from Giorgian de Arrascaeta before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>While the win was not enough to send Uruguay through, it condemned Ghana to the bottom place in the group and heading home for the second time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>It was a familiar story for Ghana, who 12 years ago in South Africa missed an extra-time spot-kick in a quarterfinal defeat against Uruguay following a now infamous handball from Luis Suarez.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addo, speaking after the game, said Ayew, who was substituted at halftime, deserved credit for stepping up to take the spot kick and hailed his leadership qualities within the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is football. When I was a player I didn\u2019t like taking penalties so I have to applaud everyone who is going there,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, Andre has done a lot for the squad. He is such a great character and a leader,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Otto Addo has left his role as the head coach of the Black Stars.<\/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=\"9XXrrC7eVxE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Sports - Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (02-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XXrrC7eVxE?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>Otto Addo says he pinned no blame on Andre Ayew after the striker missed a penalty in their 2-0 defeat to Uruguay on Friday that knocked them out of the World Cup. Ayew\u2019s tame effort was saved by Sergio Rochet in the 21st minute of the Group H encounter at Al Janoub Stadium and Uruguay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1104,1105,94,441,95],"class_list":["post-1261317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andre","tag-ayew","tag-black","tag-blame","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261317","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=1261317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}