{"id":739956,"date":"2022-01-08T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/asamoah-gyan-lands-big-punditry-job-for-2021-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:03:22","slug":"asamoah-gyan-lands-big-punditry-job-for-2021-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/asamoah-gyan-lands-big-punditry-job-for-2021-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan lands big punditry job for 2021 AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  8 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanasoccernet.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/72514569.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana's record goal scorer\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana's record goal scorer\" width=\"295\" height=\"240\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana&#8217;s record goal scorer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Legendary Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan has landed a big punditry job for the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan has confirmed he will be on SuperSport, one of the biggest platforms on the continent, as a pundit for the tournament which kicks off on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sunderland player will join other legendary African footballers to serve SuperSport&#8217;s wide audience with in-depth analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcited to be joining SuperSport TV as a pundit for their coverage of Afcon 2021,\u201d Gyan announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been in the works for some time and I am excited about the challenge. Looking forward to sharing my knowledge on Africa\u2019s biggest football gathering together with other legends.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 93%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Excited to be joining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperSportTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SuperSportTV<\/a> as a Pundit for their coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFCON2021<\/a> This has been in the works for sometime and I am excited about the challenge. Looking forward to sharing my knowledge on Africa&#8217;s biggest football gathering together with other legends. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IGyszPe3jD\">pic.twitter.com\/IGyszPe3jD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ASAMOAH GYAN (@ASAMOAH_GYAN3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASAMOAH_GYAN3\/status\/1479389941809532932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gyan is expected to be the star pundit when the Black Stars are playing.<\/p>\n<p>He follows in the footsteps of former Ghanaian footballers Sammy Osei Kuffour and Laryea Kingston who have worked as pundits for the South Africa-based South Africa-based Pan-Africa channel.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston was in Johannesburg in 2019 for the Egypt Afcon while the Bayern Munich legend was a regular until 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan was not included in Milovan Rajevac&#8217;s squad, missing out on Afcon for the first time since 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Saturday, 8 January 2022 Source: ghanasoccernet.com 2022-01-08 Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana&#8217;s record goal scorer Legendary Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan has landed a big punditry job for the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. Gyan has confirmed he will be on SuperSport, one of the biggest platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739956","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=739956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}