{"id":757929,"date":"2022-01-20T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/afcon-2021-is-not-my-last\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:30:57","slug":"afcon-2021-is-not-my-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/afcon-2021-is-not-my-last\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021 is not my last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\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\"><b> Andre Ayew admits group stage exit hurts<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dede Ayew talks about what accounted for  loss against Comoros<\/p>\n<p>Dede Ayew becomes Ghana&#8217;s all-time top scorer at the AFCON<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars skipper, Andre Dede Ayew has insisted that he is not drawing the curtains down on the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Dede Ayew is Ghana&#8217;s top scorer at the Nations Cup with 10 goals. His goal against Gabon in the 2021 edition meant he has scored in six consecutive AFCON for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Despite reaching the impressive landmark in Cameroon, he had an ending to forget as he was sent off in the last game against Comoros. Ghana lost 3-2 and thus got eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Ayew said emphatically that this is not his last. \u201cNo, it is definitely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have played against them before and I think we let them score an early goal and after that until the red card, we had complete control of the game,\u201d Ayew continued.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that the early exit is a tough pill to swallow considering Ghana&#8217;s success in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in the final in 2010 and 2015 and in between them were semi-finals, so we have been on top for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to swallow the pill, stay calm to see what went wrong, and prepare because the World Cup play-off is coming quickly and we have to be ready for that.<\/p>\n<p>The skipper was positive about the youth in the squad correcting the wrongs in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s football, we will go back to the drawing board and I hope that these young players are able to come out of this because they have a future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twi_news\">TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Ayew admits group stage exit hurts Dede Ayew talks about what accounted for loss against Comoros Dede Ayew becomes Ghana&#8217;s all-time top scorer at the AFCON Black Stars skipper, Andre Dede Ayew has insisted that he is not drawing the curtains down on the Black Stars. Dede Ayew is Ghana&#8217;s top scorer at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-757929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757929","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=757929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}