{"id":995091,"date":"2022-02-17T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/gyan-plays-safe-in-ghana-nigeria-play-offs\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T16:48:20","slug":"gyan-plays-safe-in-ghana-nigeria-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/gyan-plays-safe-in-ghana-nigeria-play-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyan Plays Safe&#8230;In Ghana-Nigeria Play-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong> Asamoah Gyan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan says it is difficult to predict games between the Black Stars and the Super Eagles of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries square up in March for a place in this year\u2019s World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>However, with both teams disappointingly exiting the Africa Cup of Nations at the early stages, Gyan believes the rivalry between the two nations makes it difficult to call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana and Nigeria is rivalry, you cannot predict. Anybody can win so we just have to stay focus and do what they have to do on the field, that is it,\u201d he told <em>Tv3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter what, we will keep on supporting them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not playing for the national team since 2019, the 36-year-old will be supporting his country to make it to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who says he does not support the national team is a hypocrite,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you are there and your country is losing, you will feel it because you are from the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghanasoccernet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asamoah Gyan Former Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan says it is difficult to predict games between the Black Stars and the Super Eagles of Nigeria. The two countries square up in March for a place in this year\u2019s World Cup in Qatar. However, with both teams disappointingly exiting the Africa Cup of Nations at the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5190,702,782,4676,5191],"class_list":["post-995091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ghananigeria","tag-gyan","tag-playoffs","tag-plays","tag-safein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995091","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=995091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}