Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan was named top scorer in the just-ended Asian Champions League competition after putting away 12 goals in his team, Al-Ain’s, run to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Gyan scored from the group stages up to the quarter finals but his goals could not get Al-Ain in to the final as they were beaten 4-2 by Saudi Arabian side, Al-Hilal, in a two-legged semi-final.<\/p>\n
Gyan’s 12 goals were scored against Lekhyiwa, Al-Ittihad and Tractor Sazi in the group stages (7 goals), Al-Jazira in the Round of 16 (3 goals) and Al-Ittihad (2 goals) in the quarter finals.<\/p>\n
The former Sunderland man topped the scorer’s chart with two more goals ahead of \u00a0<\/span>Nasser Al-Shamrani (of Al-Hilal) and a massive six ahead of Elkeson (0f Guangzhou Evergrande, China), Mokhtar Fallatah (of Al-Ittihad, Saudi Arabia), and Luciano (of Foolad, Iran).<\/p>\n Australia’s Ante Covic of the competition-winning Western Sydney Wanderers was named the Asian Champions League’s Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n Wanderers will represent Asia in the FIFA Club World Cup later this year in Morocco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: \u00a0Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan was named top scorer in the just-ended Asian Champions League competition after putting away 12 goals in his team, Al-Ain’s, run to the semi-finals. Gyan scored from the group stages up to the quarter finals but his goals could not get Al-Ain in to the final as they were beaten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":61581,"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-61579","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\/61579","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}