{"id":149040,"date":"2015-09-05T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149040"},"modified":"2015-09-05T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:48:07","slug":"andre-ayew-to-captain-black-stars-against-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/09\/andre-ayew-to-captain-black-stars-against-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ayew to captain Black Stars against Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"
Inform Swansea City midfielder Andre Dede Ayew, is set to lead the Black Stars when they take on the Amavubi of Rwanda following Asamoah Gyan\u2019s [substantive captain] fitness issues.<\/span><\/p>\n Ayew is making a return to the team after missing out in the Stars’ last two games against Togo and Mauritius respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n The 25-year-old is set to lead the Black Stars when they take on their Rwandan counterparts in their 2017 AFCON qualifiers in Kigali on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n In an interview on Sports Panorama on Cit FM<\/strong> on Friday, Spokesperson for the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Sanni Dara said Asamoah Gyan trained for just a few minutes with the team on Friday but pulled out of the session because of an\u00a0injury.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can see my knee is swollen but it would all depend on the technical team,\u201d Gyan exclusively told Citi FM’s<\/strong> sports reporter Rahman Osman who is with the team in Kigali.<\/span><\/p>\n The team doctors are yet to make a definitive statement on whether Gyan will play any part in the game yet.<\/p>\n \u201cLets wait and see what happens as things could change.\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Ayew has been in blistering form for Swansea City where he has scored 3 goals in four games for the Wales side.<\/span><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Rahman Osman reporting from Rwanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inform Swansea City midfielder Andre Dede Ayew, is set to lead the Black Stars when they take on the Amavubi of Rwanda following Asamoah Gyan\u2019s [substantive captain] fitness issues. Ayew is making a return to the team after missing out in the Stars’ last two games against Togo and Mauritius respectively. The 25-year-old is set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":149041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"yoast_head":"\n