{"id":87969,"date":"2015-02-03T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87969"},"modified":"2015-02-03T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:33:39","slug":"ban-yattara-for-life-grant-screams-at-caf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87969","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ban Yattara for life&#8217;- Grant screams at CAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black Stars coach Avram Grant is asking the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to hand a lengthy ban to Guinean goalkeeper Nady Yattara for his foul on Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan in the 2015 AFCON quarter final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;uThSLSFMj4fvDeLTXULW9Pu7pqDKVtjO&#8221;]Yattara got sent off by Referee Janny Sikwazwe for the incident but Grant has demanded for a more severe punishment for the Guinean. \u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think what the goalkeeper did was not respectful to football. I think he should be banned for life. He should not play football because he tried to hurt Gyan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He did the foul deliberately on the stomach area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the result was 3-0 and we were in the last minute, the foul showed disrespect to football.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I do not think he should play football again because when you try to take other players out of the game, people need to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87971\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Asamoah-Gyan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-87971\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Asamoah-Gyan.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah-Gyan\" width=\"620\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gyan lying on the turf after Yattara\u2019s foul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He continued: \u201cThis is a bad tackle and it was done deliberately to finish the other player\u2019s career or to take him out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I saw it in the game but I saw it again in the replay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grant compared the foul to the one German goalkeeper Harold \u201cToni\u201d Schumacher made on French midfielder Patrick Battison in the 1982 World Cup and concluded that Yattara\u2019s foul was \u201cworse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana will wait for scans to determine if Gyan will be available for the semi-final against Equatorial Guinea on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars coach Avram Grant is asking the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to hand a lengthy ban to Guinean goalkeeper Nady Yattara for his foul on Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan in the 2015 AFCON quarter final. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;uThSLSFMj4fvDeLTXULW9Pu7pqDKVtjO&#8221;]Yattara got sent off by Referee Janny Sikwazwe for the incident but Grant has demanded for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-87969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}