Ghana’s legendary player, Asamoah Gyan is relishing an opportunity of playing for the senior national team, the Black Stars in the upcoming FIFA World Cup slated for Qatar later this year, in November 2022.
This new development has been met with varied reactions from the football populace. Well, like every other issue that circles the media landscape everyone has an opinion to that effect and Asamoah Gyan’s story is no exception.
A section of the Ghanaian populace maintains that he should be given an opportunity to represent the country in the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, as he has unfinished business with the national team. Others feel he’s past his best and shouldn’t be given a look into the team. The other divide also feels he should be given an ambassadorial role with the team, considering his vast playing experience amongst other supreme qualities, but whatever happens, a lot will go to making a finite decision on one of Ghana’s predatory strikers to grace the game.
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Gyan holds a plethora of enviable national team records and would be gunning to make some more should he get the opportunity of representing the Ghana Black Stars at the World Cup this year.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup brings back so many memories to the country, the Black Stars missed out on securing a first-time semi-final berth if not for Luiz Suarez’s Uruguay denying the country that rare opportunity at the global tournament and Gyan missing the subsequent penalty as a result of the handball.
Fast-forward to 2022,12 years down the line, Ghanaians are still aggrieved by that debacle and would make full use of any opportunity to make amends, one such person, who has a lot riding on it for him is Asamoah Gyan, who wants nothing short bar revenge to make up for his penalty loss in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A lot of people, including myself thought, Asamoah Gyan had retired from active football but in a recent interview with BBC’s John Bennett, he squashed reports that he had retired from football admonishing the need to get back to full fitness. That’s where the question begs to ask if, he would be granted the opportunity with the national team as his fellow Black Stars teammate, Christian Atsu is calling on the handlers to do to “Honour Asamoah Gyan with his last wish”.
The thing is that Gyan has been absent from the playing field for a while, his last involvement with the Black Stars was during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in a game against Tunisia whiles Ghanaian Premier League side, Legon Cities was the only club team he played for making a handful appearance until he was rocked with an injury which kept him out for the entire season.
Rationally, a lot of things have changed with this current Black Stars team, considering the managerial and technical direction the team is towing towards under the able leadership of Otto Addo. The Black Stars have their own redemption to make having missed out on the last world cup in Russia, they definitely would want to enter the good books of Ghanaians.
