{"id":1263904,"date":"2022-12-10T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/10\/asamoah-gyan-recounts-meeting-suarez-after-2010-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:22:51","slug":"asamoah-gyan-recounts-meeting-suarez-after-2010-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/10\/asamoah-gyan-recounts-meeting-suarez-after-2010-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan recounts meeting Suarez after 2010 World Cup"},"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>Former Black Stars captain\u00a0Asamoah Gyan has revealed he met Luis Suarez during his playing days in the English\u00a0Premier League after the 2010 World Cup handball incident in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana were on the verge of becoming the first African country to reach the semi-finals of the Mundial but Luis Suarez deliberately blocked Dominic Adiyah\u2019s goal-bound header just on the line.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/113170333_suarezhandball.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Suarez said he made the 'save of the tournament'\" class=\"wp-image-2099423\"  \/><figcaption><strong>Luis Suarez said he made the \u2018save of the tournament\u2019 <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Black Stars were awarded a penalty but Asamoah Gyan failed to convert the crucial spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The South Americans subsequently emerged as champions on a 4-2 penalty win against the Black Stars at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries were in the same group in this\u00a0year\u2019s edition of the global showpiece which is ongoing in Qatar\u00a0but the two-time world champions exhibited their superiority by beating Ghana 2-0 but\u00a0still exited the tourney with Ghana at the group phase.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana,\u00a0were, however, awarded another penalty but once again skipper Andre Ayew had his kick saved by goalkeeper Sergio Rochet Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>But Gyan, speaking in an interview, recounted his last meeting with Suarez was a Premier League fixture between Sunderland and Liverpool, where they only shook hands without having any form of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was at Liverpool at the time. I don\u2019t think he spoke English at the time. I never spoke to him under we [Sunderland] played Liverpool and they won 4-2,\u201d he told UK-based talkSPORTS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just did a handshake. People thought I was going to ignore him, but we had a handshake and that\u2019s it. That\u2019s the only time, but I haven\u2019t spoken to him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan is Africa\u2019s top goal scorer in the history of the World Cup and Ghana\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer.<\/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=\"lCsQPeDpFQg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digesting Ofori Atta&#039;s Debt Exchange Programme - Nnawotwi Yi on Adom TV (10-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCsQPeDpFQg?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 captain\u00a0Asamoah Gyan has revealed he met Luis Suarez during his playing days in the English\u00a0Premier League after the 2010 World Cup handball incident in South Africa. Ghana were on the verge of becoming the first African country to reach the semi-finals of the Mundial but Luis Suarez deliberately blocked Dominic [&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":[701,262,702,458,37,7018,784],"class_list":["post-1263904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asamoah","tag-cup","tag-gyan","tag-meeting","tag-recounts","tag-suarez","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263904","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=1263904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}