{"id":746662,"date":"2022-01-12T18:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/andre-ayew-misses-black-stars-training-ahead-of-gabon-tie\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T18:12:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:12:56","slug":"andre-ayew-misses-black-stars-training-ahead-of-gabon-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/andre-ayew-misses-black-stars-training-ahead-of-gabon-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ayew misses Black Stars training ahead of Gabon tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ayew-bleeding-750x536-1-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Andre Ayew\" title=\"Andre Ayew\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana captain, Andre Ayew\u00a0missed the final training session on Wednesday ahead of\u00a0Black Stars second group game against Gabon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The playing body trained at the\u00a0Ahmadou Ahidjo\u00a0Stadium ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old featured in Black Stars opening defeat against Morocco on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Al Sadd forward\u00a0suffered a head injury late in the game against the Atlas Lions\u00a0which resulted in his bleeding head having to be bandaged.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>After the match, Andre Ayew revealed that he was unwell\u00a0before kick-off against Morocco but was desperate to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been sick for a few days but I thank God I was able to be on the pitch today with the boys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to play even though I knew I was not fully ready,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mohammed Kudus is expected to join the team today from the training camp of Ajax.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will be desperate to pick up all three points against Gabon having lost their first game.<\/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=\"RG-OLRIkarA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coach Milovan Rajevac wake up, your team is poor  - Fire for Fire on Adom TV (11-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RG-OLRIkarA?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>Andre Ayew Ghana captain, Andre Ayew\u00a0missed the final training session on Wednesday ahead of\u00a0Black Stars second group game against Gabon on Friday. The playing body trained at the\u00a0Ahmadou Ahidjo\u00a0Stadium ahead of the game. The 31-year-old featured in Black Stars opening defeat against Morocco on Monday. However, the Al Sadd forward\u00a0suffered a head injury late in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[260,1104,1105,94,1113,1402,95,1403,1257],"class_list":["post-746662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ahead","tag-andre","tag-ayew","tag-black","tag-gabon","tag-misses","tag-stars","tag-tie","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746662","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=746662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}