{"id":133243,"date":"2015-07-10T08:04:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=133243"},"modified":"2015-07-10T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:04:49","slug":"asamoah-gyan-signs-two-year-contract-to-join-shanghai-sipg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=133243","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan signs two-year contract to join Shanghai SIPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan has completed his move to Chinese club Shanghai SIPG after signing a two-year contract on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 29-year-old signed the contract in the presence of his elder brother Baffour and manager Samuel Anim Addo at the Regal International East Asia Hotel owned by the club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shanghai SIPG was represented by their General Manager Mr. Chan at the signing-on ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The club was unable to organize a press conference to unveil Asamoah Gyan as their latest signing with the team traveling to Guangzhou to face R&amp;F in an away league match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unveiling ceremony is now likely to take place next week Tuesday or Wednesday as the side will return from the league match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Asamoah-Gyan-completes-move-to-Shanghai-SIPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133245\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Asamoah-Gyan-completes-move-to-Shanghai-SIPG.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah-Gyan-completes-move-to-Shanghai-SIPG\" width=\"972\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Asamoah-Gyan-completes-move-to-Shanghai-SIPG.jpg 972w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Asamoah-Gyan-completes-move-to-Shanghai-SIPG-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGyan after signing the contract said: \u201cI thank God for this special day, to my family, former playmates at Al Ain and to my fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI reserve the rest of my comments for the official unveiling next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asamoah Gyan signed onto a two-year deal with an option for a renewal having passed a routinemedical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Black Stars captain is arriving from Al Ain where he has enjoyed immense success for the past four years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: www.asamoahgyan3.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan has completed his move to Chinese club Shanghai SIPG after signing a two-year contract on Friday. The 29-year-old signed the contract in the presence of his elder brother Baffour and manager Samuel Anim Addo at the Regal International East Asia Hotel owned by the club. Shanghai SIPG was represented by their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":133246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-133243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}