{"id":5827,"date":"2020-07-21T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2020-07-21T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:23:28","slug":"ghanian-soccer-star-asamoah-gyan-to-play-for-wadi-degla-club-of-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=5827","title":{"rendered":"Ghanian soccer star Asamoah Gyan to play for Wadi Degla club of Egypt."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Egypt Premier League side Wadi Degla SC are close to signing Ghana legendary striker Asamoah Gyan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Ghanasoccernet.com<\/em> sources, negotiations between the club and the players and the player\u2019s representatives are far advanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wadi Degla want to make the all-time Black Stars goalscorer as their marquee signing for the 2020\/2021 season<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gyan is currently without a club after his spell with Indian side NorthEast United FC came to an end in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"592\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5828\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gyan.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=5828\" class=\"wp-image-5828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gyan.jpg 400w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gyan-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Asamoah Gyan to play in Egypt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old scored four goals in eight appearances and with one assist in the Indian Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wadi Degla are fond of signing veteran players to light up the Egyptian top-flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last soccer legend to play for Wadi Degla fc was former Chelsea and France winger Florent Malouda in 2016 where he scored three goals in 18 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gyan has 51 goals in 109 matches for the black stars of Ghana and is also Africa\u2019s highest scoring player in the history of the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Ghana captain has previously played for Modena, Udinese Calcio, Stade Rennes, Sunderland, Al Ain FC, Shanghai SIPG and Kayserispo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wadi Degla is beefing up its squad to challenge for the title in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt Premier League side Wadi Degla SC are close to signing Ghana legendary striker Asamoah Gyan. According to Ghanasoccernet.com sources, negotiations between the club and the players and the player\u2019s representatives are far advanced. Wadi Degla want to make the all-time Black Stars goalscorer as their marquee signing for the 2020\/2021 season Gyan is currently &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}