‘He is not my friend’, Asamoah Gyan opens up on his relationship with Andre Ayew, the current captain of the Black stars.
Asamoah Gyan, the Black Stars captain that Andre Ayew succeeded, has sparked another interesting conversation on his relations with his colleague Andrew Dede Ayew which has moved from bad to worse.
Both have played for the Ghana National team, the Black stars, way back during the 2008 AFCON.
During a high-profile interview granted by Asamoah Gyan on Wontumi FM. He said they are only teammates not friends in any way. He sees Dede as his work mate and that ends the relationship between them.
The revelation has cast doubts in the minds of Ghanaians as to why the two seem not to be the kind of friends expected to exist between them, especially when Ayew deputized as the assistant captain of the Black stars in the days of Asamoah Gyan’s leadership.
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“Andre is my teammate, but he’s not my friend. In every job, you work together but not everyone is your friend that you go and come with,” Asamoah Gyan told Wontumi FM.
“Andre is my teammate and when we’re in camp we work together, but I can’t ask him to join me to go and sit somewhere and have a conversation. I also have my own clique.”
Readers will recount that during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, for strange reasons, Gyan was stripped of the captain’s armband which was handed to Andrew Ayew before the tournament in Egypt. This led to Asamoah Gyan resigning from international football and had to be re-called back into the Black stars.
Andrew Dede Ayew will be leading the Black Stars as Ghana attempts to conquer the world at the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup
In a related development, Asamoah Gyan has indicated his quest to play for the Black Stars at the next FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and celebrities like Samuel E’to of Cameroon and Soni Badu of Ghana believe Asamoah Gyan has what it takes to be Ghana’s potent force in Qatar.
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