{"id":1269907,"date":"2022-12-24T22:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/24\/asamoah-gyan-opens-up-on-what-he-said-after\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T22:16:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:16:39","slug":"asamoah-gyan-opens-up-on-what-he-said-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/24\/asamoah-gyan-opens-up-on-what-he-said-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan opens up on what he said after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/74b26da2bcecedb7944c9df3343c050a.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan\u00a0has hilariously opened up on what he said after\u00a0missing a crucial penalty for the\u00a0Black Stars\u00a0in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana were on the verge of playing in the semifinal of the Mundial but Gyan missed out on a crucial penalty against the South Americans\u00a0in stoppage time, which eventually led to Ghana\u2019s elimination in the shootouts.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Black Stars\u00a0in 2010 were awarded a late penalty after Luis Suarez made a goal-bound header save with his hand in extra time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Ghana, who were making their second appearance at the global showpiece\u00a0eventually lost 4-2 on penalties after the match ended one-all.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the first words he uttered after missing the kick at the Romanus Incomplete Comedy Show,\u00a0Asamoah Gyan\u00a0revealed that,\u00a0\u201cMe Wu\u201d which means \u201cI\u2019m dead,\u201d were his first words.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sunderland striker was honoured at the event for his incredible contribution to the growth of Ghana football and for ending his career as the top scorer for Ghana with 51 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan\u00a0is also Africa\u2019s top scorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup, a competition that started 92 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan has been out of active football after leaving Ghana Premier League side, Legon Cities.<\/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=\"xiaUhyC32gQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Supporting PWDs: 94 persons with disabilities benefit from Disability Fund - Adom TV News (23-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiaUhyC32gQ?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 Asamoah Gyan\u00a0has hilariously opened up on what he said after\u00a0missing a crucial penalty for the\u00a0Black Stars\u00a0in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ghana were on the verge of playing in the semifinal of the Mundial but Gyan missed out on a crucial penalty against the South Americans\u00a0in stoppage time, which eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[701,702,1100],"class_list":["post-1269907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asamoah","tag-gyan","tag-opens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269907","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=1269907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}