{"id":63238,"date":"2014-11-08T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=63238"},"modified":"2014-11-08T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T15:15:46","slug":"andre-ayew-set-captain-black-stars-togo-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=63238","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ayew set to captain Black Stars against Togo, Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Marseille midfielder Andre Ayew will captain the Black Stars of Ghana for their final AFCON 2015 qualifers against Uganda and Togo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Captain Asamoah Gyan is still struggling to shake off a thigh strain and is likely to miss both encounters, paving way for Ayew to captain the team for the first time in a competitive international match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Andre has worn the band during games with the youth teams, but has never led the team out for a senior fixture. He also led the national under 20 team to Africa&#8217;s first ever world title at the age group in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">He will become the second Ayew to captain the senior national football team after his famous father, Abedi did so for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Allsports.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marseille midfielder Andre Ayew will captain the Black Stars of Ghana for their final AFCON 2015 qualifers against Uganda and Togo. Captain Asamoah Gyan is still struggling to shake off a thigh strain and is likely to miss both encounters, paving way for Ayew to captain the team for the first time in a competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":26514,"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-63238","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\/63238","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=63238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}