Asamoah Gyan, a former Black Stars captain, has encouraged Ghana not to be preoccupied on avenging Uruguay at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The Black Stars will face Uruguay, a team that Ghanaians have a grudge against due to the events of the 2010 World Cup.
Portugal and South Korea are the other members of the group.
Gyan, who missed a crucial penalty against Uruguay, wants the Black Stars to focus on the future rather than the past.
“The most important thing is to qualify from the group stage and go further. When we think about revenge, I don’t think, yes sometimes it good. Psychologically it boosts your morale, you are going for revenge. But, it’s a different generation altogether,” Gyan said on an Accra-based TV station.
Both sides faced off in the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals in South Africa.
Sulley Muntari scored the first goal for Ghana with a long-range drive, but Diego Forlan equalized with a free kick.
Ghana took a corner kick on the stroke of full time, and Dominic Adiyiah headed it goalwards, but Luis Suarez clawed the ball away with his bare hands like a goalie.
Ghana was handed a penalty after he was shown a red card, but Asamoah Gyan missed it, and Ghana lost the post-match penalties.
Asamoah Gyan, the former captain of Ghana’s Black Stars, will debut his memoir on April 30 at the opulent Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra.
