{"id":90946,"date":"2015-02-12T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=90946"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:40:16","slug":"forgive-us-for-losing-afcon-finals-andre-ayew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=90946","title":{"rendered":"Forgive us for losing AFCON finals \u2013 Andre Ayew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars midfielder, Andre Ayew has apologized to Ghanaians for the failure of the senior national team to win the just ended African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bzRhGfCnKSgQ0qreRP3MaqG0FmO4ICyt&#8221;]Ayew in Tweet on Thursday said: \u201cI\u2019ve had a few days to reflect on my emotions and I want to sincerely apologize to Ghanaians for not bringing the cup home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that although the team did their best during the tournament, \u201cunfortunately, our best wasn\u2019t good enough this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But their failure to win the cup to break the 33-year AFCON trophy drought, he observed, \u201chas only made us stronger and hungrier to bring the cup home Ishaallah!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he is consoled by the fact that he was able to win the goal king of the tournament for Ghanaians \u201calthough we [Black Stars] were not able to put a smile in your hearts with a winning trophy for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, he said gives him the assurance that all his hard work was not in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew therefore expressed his profound appreciation to Ghanaians for their support and for \u201cbelieving in me because I couldn\u2019t have done it without you. God bless you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/02\/08\/ghana-painfully-denied-another-afcon-trophy-ivory-coast\/#sthash.xa0xQJoO.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>hope of being crowned the African football champions was dashed<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>after Ivory Coast beat the Black Stars 9-8 on penalties in the tournament\u2019s final in Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Capture2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90947\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"706\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars midfielder, Andre Ayew has apologized to Ghanaians for the failure of the senior national team to win the just ended African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament. 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