Asamoah Gyan

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Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan (2014) .jpg
Asamoah Gyan in 2014
Personnel
birthday November 22, 1985
place of birth Accra ,  Ghana
size 186 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-2002 Liberty professionals
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2003 Liberty professionals 16 (10)
2003-2008 Udinese Calcio 39 (11)
2004-2006 →  FC Modena  (loan) 53 (15)
2008-2010 Rennes stadium 48 (14)
2010-2011 Sunderland AFC 34 (10)
2011-2015 al Ain Club 83 (95)
2015-2017 Shanghai SIPG 20 0(7)
2016-2017 →  al-Ahli Dubai  (loan) 14 0(6)
2017-2019 Kayserispor 26 0(5)
2019– NorthEast United FC 8 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2003– Ghana 108 (51)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 28, 2019

2 As of July 8, 2019

Asamoah Gyan (born November 22, 1985 in Accra ) is a Ghanaian football player . Gyan is the record player and record scorer in Ghana. He is also one of the most famous players in his country.

Life

Asamoah Gyan has been married since 2007 and has two daughters with his wife. His brother Baffour Gyan is also a professional footballer and plays for Al Nasr Benghazi in Libya.

Asamoah Gyan also appears as a singer under the stage name Baby Jet . In the summer of 2010 he reached number 1 in the Ghanaian music charts with the song “African Girls” together with the rapper Castro (Theophilus Tagoe), who is known in Africa .

In July 2014, Castro and his girlfriend Janet Bandu disappeared while on a weekend trip on a jet ski tour of the coast off Ada on the River Volta . The police are investigating the incident. Rumors surfaced that Asamoah Gyan, who had also taken the weekend getaway in question with a number of other people but not the jet ski tour, was to blame for the couple's disappearance. Bandu and Castro have been officially missing since the July 2014 incident; only the jet ski has so far been recovered. The couple is believed to have drowned.

In November 2017, Gyan announced the establishment of an airline in his home country.

Career

In the club

Asamoah Gyan began his career at Liberty Professionals , the 2003/04 season he moved to Udinese in the Italian Serie A . For the following two seasons, the Ghanaian was loaned to the second division club FC Modena before returning to Udinese in 2006/07 . For the 2008/09 season he moved to the French club Stade Rennes . At the end of the changeover period of the 2010/11 season , AFC Sunderland signed him for the Premier League .

In September 2011 he was loaned to the al Ain Club and finally committed in July 2012. Gyan moved to the Chinese club Shanghai SIPG in 2015 but was eliminated after two years due to a change in the foreigner regulation of the Chinese Super League .

Asamoah Gyan moved to Turkish club Kayserispor on a free transfer in June 2017 .

In the national team

Asamoah Gyan in the national team jersey in a friendly against England with Gary Cahill (2011)

Asamoah Gyan played his first international match for the Ghanaian national soccer team on November 19, 2003 against the Somalia national team . At the 2004 Olympic Games he was part of the Ghana's squad . The team was eliminated in the preliminary round. Gyan also represented Ghana at the 2006 World Cup in Germany , where he scored the first goal for his country in a World Cup after 75 seconds in the second round match against the Czech Republic .

At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , he scored the 1-0 winning goal in the 84th minute in the preliminary round match against Serbia with a hand penalty and thus ensured the first victory of an African team at this tournament. Gyan also managed to equalize against Australia with a hand penalty. This makes Ghana the first team to reach the knockout round of a World Cup only with penalty goals. In the last 16 match against the USA , Gyan scored the decisive 2-1 for Ghana in the third minute of extra time. In the quarter-finals against Uruguay , he shot a hand penalty against the crossbar in extra time when the score was 1: 1. In the subsequent penalty shootout, Gyan converted, but Ghana lost it 2: 4 and was eliminated. They would have been the first African team in a World Cup semi-final.

With his two goals in the 3-1 victory in Sudan in the 2014 World Cup qualification , Gyan increased his goal count in the national team to 34 goals. This made him the new record scorer for the Ghanaians. He replaced Abédi Pelé , whose record (33 goals) lasted for 15 years. On May 13, 2014, as expected, he was appointed to the squad of the Ghanaian national soccer team for the 2014 World Cup .

With a total of six goals scored, Gyan is ahead of Roger Milla (five goals), the most successful African goalscorer at the World Cup.

So far, Gyan has also participated in the African Football Championship with great success : in 2008 he finished third with Ghana, in 2010 and 2015 he and his team only had to admit defeat in the final. There are also three fourth places at the African Championships in 2012 , 2013 and 2017 .

On November 13, 2015, he replaced Richard Kingson as the Ghanaian record international player with his 94th international match .

Awards

At the 2010 African Cup of Nations, Gyan was voted into the best team of the tournament . At the 2010 World Cup , Gyan was named Man of the Match twice (against Serbia and against Australia) and nominated for the choice of Most Valuable Player of the World Cup.

He was also nominated as one of 23 players for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or and finished second behind Samuel Eto'o and ahead of Didier Drogba in the vote for Africa's Footballer of the Year . In July 2010, as in 2013, Gyan was named Ghana's Footballer of the Year and in December 2010 he was awarded the title of BBC African Footballer of the Year . With twelve goals, he was the top scorer of the AFC Champions League 2014 . He was also named Asia's Foreign Footballer of the Year in 2015.

titles and achievements

As a national player

In the club

Awards

Web links

Commons : Asamoah Gyan  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Asamoah Gyan rues not winning 2003 GPL top-scorer award. In: ghanaweb.com (April 20, 2020).
  2. ↑ Al Ain to 'study offers' for Asamoah Gyan but expect Ghana striker to stay. thenational.ae, July 3, 2015, accessed April 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b FIFA: Gyan completes Sunderland move . Last accessed: September 1, 2010.
  4. ^ Asamoah Gyan releases statement, prays for Castro's return. GraphicOnline, accessed August 5, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Police searching for body of Afrobeats artist Castro BBC News July 7, 2014, accessed September 27, 2014.
  6. ^ Castro, Janet search team back to base. GraphicOnline, accessed August 5, 2014 .
  7. ↑ STATEMENT: Gyan Family address issues of national interest ( Memento from September 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Asamoah Gyan denies 'ritual sacrifice' of Ghana rapper Castro. BBC, accessed September 27, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Ghana's football captain launches commercial airline. African Aerospace, November 2, 2017.
  10. Jump up ↑ Striker Gyan
  11. ↑ Gyan Officially to Al Ain  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.alainfc.ae  
  12. ↑ Ghana's international striker Gyan to Kayserispor for free. transfermarkt.de , July 6, 2017, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Ghanas Boateng taunts - and is there , kicker.de (May 12, 2014)
  14. ↑ Samuel Ebo Kwaitoo: Gyan earns legendary status; Equals Milla's 5 goals . Graphic Online, June 22, 2014.
  15. ↑ BBC: Asamoah Gyan voted BBC African Footballer of the Year 2010 . Last accessed: December 26, 2010.
  16. ↑ AFC Champions League 2014 »List of goalscorers. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gyan, Asamoah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Accra , Ghana