{"id":328404,"date":"2017-06-14T18:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328404"},"modified":"2017-06-14T18:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:08:44","slug":"ive-played-five-afcons-through-injury-asamoah-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328404","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve played five AFCONs through injury &#8211; Asamoah Gyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has shockingly revealed how he played all but one AFCON tournament through injury.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Gyan has represented Ghana in the last six AFCON editions and is the country\u2019s joint-top scorer in the competition\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The striker who made his debut at the tournament in the 2008 edition, which is incidentally was hosted in Ghana, made this revelation in an interview on <strong>Citi FM\u2019s Traffic Avenue<\/strong> show with host, Philip Ashon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFCON in 2010 was by far my best. That was the only AFCON tournament I played without injury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have played all the other AFCON tournaments through injury. My form before that tournament also really helped. I came into the tournament full of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gyan wrote his name into the record books when he scored his 50<sup>th<\/sup> goal for the Black Stars, becoming only the 5<sup>th<\/sup> African player to achieve that feat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Daniel Koranteng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has shockingly revealed how he played all but one AFCON tournament through injury. Gyan has represented Ghana in the last six AFCON editions and is the country\u2019s joint-top scorer in the competition\u2019s history. The striker who made his debut at the tournament in the 2008 edition, which is incidentally was [&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":[1],"tags":[8197,3],"class_list":["post-328404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asamah-gyan","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328404","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=328404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}