{"id":3558,"date":"2024-03-02T10:44:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2024-03-02T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:45:01","slug":"dafeamekpor-apologises-to-asamoah-gyan-over-claims-he-missed-penalty-to-make-ndc-unpopular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3558","title":{"rendered":"Dafeamekpor Apologises To Asamoah Gyan Over Claims He Missed Penalty To Make NDC Unpopular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NDC Member of Parliament, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, has apologised unreservedly to former Ghana Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan after his claims that he deliberately missed a crucial penalty in his playing days because of his political affiliation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gyan was named on the manifesto committee of the vice president Mahamudu Bawumia recently, prompting the claims by the South Dayi MP that has roundly been condemned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">e told TV XYZ that \u201cthere is everything wrong\u201d with Gyan\u2019s decision to serve on the manifesto committee and then went on to claim that \u201cWhen you are a national figure like that\u2026you have to remain non-partisan. I can reasonably say that it is because of partisan politics that he intentionally missed the penalty; for the government (NDC) to get all the glory, he won\u2019t play to score the penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comment has been criticised and the MP has now issued an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-b701668e39934021530e0a8f479ea6f5 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bNdUAQSfscQ?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Black Stars &amp; other national teams have iconically rallied &amp; carried our passions, dreams and aspirations for glory to the world. Upon reflection &amp; calls from people like Kenpong, I retract &amp; unreservedly apologize to Asamoah Gyan, for my comments,\u201d Mr Dafeamekpor wrote on his X platform, March 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gyan missed a crucial penalty in the 2010 world cup against Uruguay that would have made Ghana the first African country to reach the semifinal of the World Cup tournament. It has remained a sticky point in his relationship with Ghanaian football fans, but there was overwhelming support for him in the aftermath of the comment by the MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports journalist Michael Oti Adjei said, \u201cquestioning Asamoah Gyan\u2019s unwavering commitment to Ghana during his distinguished career because of politics is wrong on so many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gyan himself has stayed out of the conversation except responding to a comment on X that \u201cmaybe the MP wanted an autograph.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-x ose-uid-261ccc6488072fc93b0906326db68370 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"400\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Black Stars &amp; other National Teams have iconically rallied &amp; carried our passions, dreams and aspirations for glory to the world. Upon reflection &amp; calls from people like Kenpong, I retract &amp; unreservedly apologize to Asamoah Gyan, for my comments.<\/p>&mdash; Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Esq. MP. (@etsedafeamekpor) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/etsedafeamekpor\/status\/1763816010732204042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDC Member of Parliament, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, has apologised unreservedly to former Ghana Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan after his claims that he deliberately missed a crucial penalty in his playing days because of his political affiliation. Gyan was named on the manifesto committee of the vice president Mahamudu Bawumia recently, prompting the claims by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18,11],"tags":[1048,67,1192],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","category-sports","tag-asamoah-gyan","tag-ndc","tag-rockson-nelson-dafeamekpor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}