{"id":327959,"date":"2017-06-13T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327959"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:55:53","slug":"asamoah-gyan-equals-van-persie-edin-dzekos-scoring-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327959","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan equals Van Persie, Edin Dzeko\u2019s scoring records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has equaled Robin Van Persie and Edin Dzeko\u2019s record of 50 international goals.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old reached the milestone after netting in his country\u2019s 5-0 win over Ethiopia in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations over weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic Ghana captain is tied in 35th place with the Dutch and Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina\u2019s legends respectively on the list of top international performers.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan, who is on loan at UAE side Shabab Al-Ahli Dubai has insisted he has more footballing years ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Armband\u00a0row\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Sunderland striker has come under torrential criticism after he wore a ceremonial armband to cerebrate his 50th goal against Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-327967 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/asamoah-gyan-armband.jpg\" alt=\"asamoah-gyan-armband\" width=\"656\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This follows his refusal to handover his customized armband to his deputy, Andre Ayew when he [Gyan] was substituted in the game against Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>But some Ghanaians believed that Gyan did no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned journalist Farayi Mungazi of the BBC also joined the growing list of journalists who have called for more respect for the Ghanaian forward who has been a trail blazer on the football pitch on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has equaled Robin Van Persie and Edin Dzeko\u2019s record of 50 international goals. The 31-year-old reached the milestone after netting in his country\u2019s 5-0 win over Ethiopia in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations over weekend. The iconic Ghana captain is tied in 35th place with the Dutch and Bosnia &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[142,11],"tags":[8056,8140,612,564,8141,8142,8143],"class_list":["post-327959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-top-stories","tag-andrew-ayew","tag-armband","tag-asamoah-gyan","tag-citi-sports","tag-customised-armband","tag-edin-dzeko","tag-robin-van-persie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327959","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}