Legendary Ghanaian player Asamoah Gyan has admitted that his 2010 FIFA World Cup penalty miss against Uruguay still causes him to experience flashbacks.
The notorious penalty miss will haunt the former Black Stars captain for the rest of his life, he claims.
“I had to cry because I felt like I came from hero to zero. I let the whole continent, my country down. Anytime I’m in a room it just pops up in my mind. I’m going to live it with for the rest of my life,” Asamoah Gyan told FIFA during a sit-down interview.
The former Sunderland FC striker speaks out about missing the penalty and claims he used the incorrect method.
“I was one of the top 3 best players in the world at that time. I was on top of the world, I was confident. A day before the Uruguay game I shot 20 penalties against our goalkeeper at training, I scored all 20. I was going to my left side of the goalkeeper.
“I saw him going to the left. And then I saw him going to my right where I was shooting the bad. He feinted me and then went to where the ball was going. I didn’t know how the ball went up. Technically there was something wrong. I didn’t have the right technique,” Asamoah Gyan explained.
Even though Gyan isn’t currently playing football, he still fantasizes of having one more dance with the Ghanaian team.
