Ghanaian legendary Asamoah Gyan said in a sport interview with GHOne said, the saddest day playing for the Ghana national team was the match against Namibia in the AFCON where he missed a penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The skipper said, after that night, his mother called him and cautioned him never to take any penalty again for the national team. The skipper said he was very sad after the mother called him crying on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One would have expected the legendary player to choose the famous penalty miss in the 2010 World Cup against Uruguay which would have been the first time an African team has progressed to the Semifinal in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Asamoah Gyan said, the 2010 World Cup penalty miss is something that will live with him forever. It\u2019s something he\u2019s not proud of but that\u2019s life, these things happen said Gyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghanaian legendary Asamoah Gyan said in a sport interview with GHOne said, the saddest day playing for the Ghana national team was the match against Namibia in the AFCON where he missed a penalty.<\/p>\n
The skipper said, after that night, his mother called him and cautioned him never to take any penalty again for the national team. The skipper said he was very sad after the mother called him crying on the phone.<\/p>\n
One would have expected the legendary player to choose the famous penalty miss in the 2010 World Cup against Uruguay which would have been the first time an African team has progressed to the Semifinal in the competition. <\/p>\n
However, Asamoah Gyan said, the 2010 World Cup penalty miss is something that will live with him forever. It\u2019s something he\u2019s not proud of but that\u2019s life, these things happen said Gyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}