{"id":172087,"date":"2024-04-16T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/16\/gyan-explains-kotoko-failed-dream\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:27:50","slug":"gyan-explains-kotoko-failed-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/16\/gyan-explains-kotoko-failed-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyan Explains Kotoko Failed Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Asamoah Gyan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan, has attributed his inability to realise his dream of playing for Kotoko to recurring injuries.<\/p>\n<p>To the fine forward, the rampancy of injuries at the twilight of his illustrious career denied him the chance to play for the Kumasi-based outfit before hanging his boots.<\/p>\n<p>He told <strong><em>Onua TV<\/em><\/strong> that despite being ready to feature for Kotoko, before joining Legon Cities in the domestic league, he struggled to regain full fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan stated, \u201cI wanted to play for Kotoko before my retirement but injuries hampered my ambitions. Even at Legon Cities, I opted to play a few minutes to gain full fitness. But once I gained fitness, injuries struck again. That was how I began thinking of retirement. I really wanted to play for Kotoko.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gyan\u2019s illustrious career left an indelible mark across Europe, Asia, and Africa, representing renowned clubs such as Udinese, Rene, Sunderland, and Al Ain among others.<\/p>\n<p>Now a tennis fanatic, he remains Ghana\u2019s all-time top scorer with 51 goals and the African player with the most World Cup goals, recording six goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Kofi Owusu Aduonum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asamoah Gyan \u00a0 Former Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan, has attributed his inability to realise his dream of playing for Kotoko to recurring injuries. To the fine forward, the rampancy of injuries at the twilight of his illustrious career denied him the chance to play for the Kumasi-based outfit before hanging his boots. He told Onua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gyan Explains Kotoko Failed Dream - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/16\/gyan-explains-kotoko-failed-dream\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gyan Explains Kotoko Failed Dream - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Asamoah Gyan \u00a0 Former Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan, has attributed his inability to realise his dream of playing for Kotoko to recurring injuries. 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