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Asamoah Gyan has admitted that while missing Ghana’s game-winning penalty during the 2010 World Cup was normal, he regrets the timing of the error.
The former captain of the Black Stars could have made history for himself and the team if had converted that crucial penalty in the dying embers of the quarter-finals of the match against Uruguay back in the 2010 World Cup staged in South Africa.
The South American frontman Luis Suarez deliberately used his two hands to ward off a goal-bound effort from Dominic Adiyiah in what was probably the last kick of the game.
The intentional Suarez handball prompted an automatic red card for him and a penalty for Ghana. With a chance to win the game and avoid a penalty kick shootout, Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan struck the crossbar on his penalty attempt, and Suarez celebrated the miss behind the benches.
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Gyan while recalling the incident that saw him moving from a hero to zero within football folklore in Ghana said that while missing penalties are a part of football, the timing affected him more than anything else.
“It’s either you miss or you score. Emotionally, what hit me is the time I missed the penalty. If I had scored, that was the end of the game. That is what hurts me. But in terms of the miss itself, it is normal,” he told Pure FM in a recent interview.
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SOURCE: www.Ghbase.com
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