{"id":744923,"date":"2022-01-11T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/asamoah-gyan-makes-maiden-appearance-on-supersport\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:16:40","slug":"asamoah-gyan-makes-maiden-appearance-on-supersport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/asamoah-gyan-makes-maiden-appearance-on-supersport\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan makes maiden appearance on SuperSport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"444\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FIwpBxBXMAE7jUb.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan made his maiden appearance on SuperSport TV as a pundit in the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old is part of a list of former players who were selected to analyse the games.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the pundits to analyse the Ghana v Morocco game staged at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo which ended 1-0 in favour of the North African side.<\/p>\n<p>Sofiane Boufal\u2019s 82nd-minute strike handed Morocco a narrow win over Group C rivals Ghana in their opener.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, Gyan was not named in Ghana\u2019s squad for the 33rd edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The former Al Ain forward last played for the Black Stars in 2019 during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Egypt where the team exited at the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan played in every AFCON from 2008 to 2019 but will be missing the tournament for the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>He is the Black Stars\u2019 second-highest scorer in the tournament, having netted eight times across seven AFCON competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sunderland forward is also currently Ghana\u2019s all-time top scorer and most-capped player for the national team.<\/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=\"rMv7Ya8NiQE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam News on Adom TV (11-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rMv7Ya8NiQE?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 Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan made his maiden appearance on SuperSport TV as a pundit in the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon. The 35-year-old is part of a list of former players who were selected to analyse the games. He was part of the pundits to analyse the Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[331,701,702,1226,704],"class_list":["post-744923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-appearance","tag-asamoah","tag-gyan","tag-maiden","tag-supersport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744923","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=744923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}