Black Stars Captain, Asamoah Gyan has responded to critics over the use of a customized captain’s armband, saying there is nothing wrong with it.
“Honestly I don’t know what people want again, Zanetti of Inter Milan had his picture on his arm band, Icardi of Inter Milan and Sergio Ramos as well, so why is it that anything Asamoah Gyan does it becomes an issue,” he queried.
He added, “what I heard which is quite strange that people are making comments about this armband thing after a huge win…at the end of the day we have won and we should be happy with that.”
Skipper Gyan, who netted to reach 50 goals for the Black Stars, failed to pass on his armband to deputy Andre ‘Dede’ Ayew following the Al Ahli forward’s substitution.
With the two players countlessly reported to have a bad blood between them over the captaincy, several meanings have been read into why Dede was forced to go for a completely different band from the bench upon Gyan’s withdrawal.
Ghana coach Kwasi Appiah explained after the match that the captain’s band was customized with Gyan’s picture hence it was impossible to pass it on to Ayew.
Ghana overwhelmingly hit five unanswered goals past Ethiopia in their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying opener at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on Sunday.
