{"id":35282,"date":"2023-06-21T03:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35282"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:12","slug":"asamoah-gyan-retires-from-active-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/21\/asamoah-gyan-retires-from-active-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan retires from active football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/18\/africa-cup-of-nations-madagascar-will-be-a-tough-game-for-black-stars-hughton\/\" title=\"Africa Cup of Nations: Madagascar will be a tough game for Black Stars \u2013 Hughton\">Black Stars<\/a> striker, Asamoah Gyan retires from active football after being Ghana&#8217;s top scorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 37-year-old announced this at the 30th annual meeting of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) held in Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Ghana\u2019s all-top scorer, Gyan has 51 goals in 109 matches to his credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representing Ghana at the international level in the FIFA World Cups of 2006, 2010, and 2014, Gyan made another history by being Africa&#8217;s top scorer in World Cup tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He etched his name in history as the top African goal scorer in World Cup tournaments, having netted an impressive tally of six goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" data-id=\"35284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/Gyan-retires.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/Gyan-retires.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/Gyan-retires-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/Gyan-retires-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/Gyan-retires-75x75.jpeg 75w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/Gyan-retires-350x350.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars striker, Asamoah Gyan retires from active football after being Ghana&#8217;s top scorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[4553,1648,4899,133,7358,6573,5500,5247,192,12138,10954,9833,36,5248],"class_list":["post-35282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-asamoah-gyan","tag-bank","tag-black","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-ghana","tag-import","tag-international","tag-meeting","tag-world","tag-world-cup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51429,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282\/revisions\/51429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}