{"id":149040,"date":"2015-09-05T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149040"},"modified":"2015-09-05T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:48:07","slug":"andre-ayew-to-captain-black-stars-against-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149040","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ayew to captain Black Stars against Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_2940\" class=\"yiv3503460476MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_2937\">Inform Swansea City midfielder Andre Dede Ayew, is set to lead the Black Stars when they take on the Amavubi of Rwanda following Asamoah Gyan\u2019s [substantive captain] fitness issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_2826\" class=\"yiv3503460476MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_2936\">Ayew is making a return to the team after missing out in the Stars&#8217; last two games against Togo and Mauritius respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_2868\" class=\"yiv3503460476MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_2867\">The 25-year-old is set to lead the Black Stars when they take on their Rwandan counterparts in their 2017 AFCON qualifiers in Kigali on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3503460476MsoNormal\">In an interview on Sports Panorama on <strong>Cit FM<\/strong> on Friday, Spokesperson for the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Sanni Dara said Asamoah Gyan trained for just a few minutes with the team on Friday but pulled out of the session because of an\u00a0injury.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_3640\" class=\"yiv9423852838MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_3639\">\u201cYou can see my knee is swollen but it would all depend on the technical team,\u201d Gyan exclusively told <strong>Citi FM&#8217;s<\/strong> sports reporter Rahman Osman who is with the team in Kigali.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9423852838MsoNormal\">The team doctors are yet to make a definitive statement on whether Gyan will play any part in the game yet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_3642\" class=\"yiv9423852838MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_3641\">\u201cLets wait and see what happens as things could change.\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_3644\" class=\"yiv9423852838MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1441442166006_3643\">Ayew has been in blistering form for Swansea City where he has scored 3 goals in four games for the Wales side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3503460476MsoNormal\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3503460476MsoNormal\">By: Rahman Osman reporting from Rwanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inform Swansea City midfielder Andre Dede Ayew, is set to lead the Black Stars when they take on the Amavubi of Rwanda following Asamoah Gyan\u2019s [substantive captain] fitness issues. Ayew is making a return to the team after missing out in the Stars&#8217; last two games against Togo and Mauritius respectively. The 25-year-old is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":149041,"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":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-149040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149040","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}