{"id":758196,"date":"2022-01-20T04:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T04:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/teary-asamoah-gyan-reacts-to-shocking-black-stars-exit\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T04:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T04:40:59","slug":"teary-asamoah-gyan-reacts-to-shocking-black-stars-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/teary-asamoah-gyan-reacts-to-shocking-black-stars-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Teary&#8217; Asamoah Gyan reacts to shocking Black Stars exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"386\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Asa-696x386.png\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan, has reacted to Black Stars early exited from the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions have been bundled out of the tournament following a 3-2 defeat to Comoros on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointed and devastated Gyan, speaking after the game, criticised the team for not showing enough desire in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m devastated and sad. You cannot win a game with this kind of attitude. I saw the real Ghana when we went a man down. We didn\u2019t see the real Ghana throughout this tournament,\u201d he said on <strong>SuperSport TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a bit upset because why do you have to push when you have 10 men when you can actually do the same with 11 men? I can\u2019t understand. I have been in the game for a long time and it\u2019s one of those things but I\u2019m very disappointed in this game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t play with any determination and desire. If we had gone home with a good performance, Ghanaians will be proud. We gave the people nothing to talk about,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana opened their campaign with a 1-0 defeat to Morocco before sharing spoils with Gabon in the second group game.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars\u2019 situation got worse after finishing 4th with just a point.<\/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=\"7X3nWU8WbEo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finance Minister insists gov\u2019t will table e-levy for passage when Parliament resumes (19-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7X3nWU8WbEo?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, has reacted to Black Stars early exited from the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon. The four-time African champions have been bundled out of the tournament following a 3-2 defeat to Comoros on Tuesday night. Disappointed and devastated Gyan, speaking after the game, criticised the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[701,94,1972,702,646,2289,95,2451],"class_list":["post-758196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asamoah","tag-black","tag-exit","tag-gyan","tag-reacts","tag-shocking","tag-stars","tag-teary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758196","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=758196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}