{"id":89783,"date":"2015-02-09T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=89783"},"modified":"2015-02-09T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:50:25","slug":"black-stars-sweep-afcon-tournament-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=89783","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars sweep AFCON tournament awards  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars players swept almost all the prestigious awards of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, with winger Christian Atsu winning the best player of the tournament award.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89820\" style=\"width: 1376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89820 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/80713211_players_dance_getty.jpg\" alt=\"_80713211_players_dance_getty\" width=\"1376\" height=\"774\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atsu (left) celebrates one of his goals against Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Atsu, who struck twice at the tournament, both against Guinea had a fine tournament and capped it off with an impressive performance in the final, where he was Ghana&#8217;s biggest threat going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the Orange player of the competition award, Atsu also won \u00a0the Nissan Goal of the tournament for his his second strike in Ghana&#8217;s 3-0 win over Guinea during the quarter final when he cut in from the right and curled a stunner over the keeper.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89815\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89815 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/80563700_andre_ayew_getty.jpg\" alt=\"_80563700_andre_ayew_getty\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dede Ayew won the award for top scorer at the AFCON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dede Ayew, who scored 3 goals at the tournament, won the award for top scorer and Cambridge United&#8217;s Kwesi Appiah was\u00a0adjudged the overall Fair Player of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars were denied a fifth AFCON triumph by the Ivory Coast, losing 9-8 on penalties after the game ended goalless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89824\" style=\"width: 988px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89824\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B8x1_1PCUAAQBcd.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Appiah won the award for  Fair Player\" width=\"988\" height=\"556\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwesi Appiah won the award for Fair Player<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89825\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/255FF20700000578-2941812-Andre_Ayew_celebrates_with_his_team_mates_before_crowd_trouble_f-a-78_1423173831621.jpg\" alt=\"255FF20700000578-2941812-Andre_Ayew_celebrates_with_his_team_mates_before_crowd_trouble_f-a-78_1423173831621\" width=\"962\" height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ivorian Keeper Boubacar Barry scored the winning kick following his save from \u00a0Ghana&#8217;s Razak Brimah.<\/p>\n<p>The win was the Ivorians second at the tournament and consigned the Black Stars to a fifth AFCON final loss in nine attempts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars players swept almost all the prestigious awards of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, with winger Christian Atsu winning the best player of the tournament award. &nbsp; 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