Ghanaian legend Asamoah Gyan has said that even though we all serve a living God his brother Baffour Gyan is a second god to him because everything he has now is because of his brother.

Describing the influence of his brother on his football career, the Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan, said “We all serve the living God but I will say, he is my second god because he has done everything for me”.

Asamoah Gyan, being the youngest player ever to score for Ghana, said his rise to greatness in football would not have been possible without the influence of his brother.

Baffour and Asamoah Gyan, who are brothers, played as attackers for the national team, however, it was the latter who had a great football career and became Ghana’s all-time top scorer with more than 50 goals, a record that makes him the 3rd African and 52nd player in the world to score more than 50 international goals.

used in describing the influence of his brother Baffour Gyan on his career. Asamoah Gyan likened his brother to a second god because he acted as a guardian angel, ensuring that he has a successful career devoid of mistake he, Baffour committed in the past.

Speaking on Black Stars Classics-World Cup Edition on Max TV, Asamoah Gyan said “We all serve the living God but I will say, he is my second god because he has done everything for me”.

“The mistakes he made in life, he made sure I didn’t go through them. He is like a guardian angel till now,” the former Sunderland player added

Asamoah, revealing the impact and influence of his brother on his football career, recalled that it was the advice of Baffour Gyan that succeeded in making him decide on schooling in Accra despite him having different plans.

Baby Jet said “He went to Adisadel College and I wanted to follow his footsteps when I completed JHS and I had to choose Adisadel College, so I chose all the Cape Coast schools”.

To his dismay, however, his brother advised him against his decision to stay in Accra in order to get scouted easily into the national team.

“Baffour said no. All my friends that were in Accra that I played with I saw them playing in the U-17 national team and I was at school,” Asamoah Gyan told host Yaw Ampofo Ankrah and Philip Sitsofe Atsrim.

Gyan, reminiscing what his elder brother had told him, added that my brother “should have been in that team at that time, so he advised me not to go that far, I should be in Accra, so that was how I chose Accra Academy. My grade was okay so they spoke to the headmaster and he said okay because obviously I was a football player. So, he was the one guiding me in all these things and it really worked.

While Gyan was in school he got spotted by Liberty Professionals where he worked hard to earn a call up to the national team at age 17, going ahead to have a successful career playing at two World Cup tournaments.

Legendary Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan has revealed that during the 2010 World Cup, the goal keeper of Serbia played mind games on him during their match.

Describing the tournament in South Africa a decade ago as the turnaround in his football career, Asamoah Gyan said the goal keeper of Serbia approached him and said if the ball is kicked to the right he would take it.

“With this penalty, the goal keeper was playing mind games with me, during the penalty he came to me and said if you play the ball on my right I will take it and that was where I put the ball, on his right,” Asamoah Gyan said.

He further went on to reveal that it is the norm in football games and that most of the time players play psychological mind games with them.

“It happens, sometimes they play mind games with you, the goal keepers especially. They will say if you put it on my left I will take it. You will be like eeii. May be in your mind you want to put it on his left so it will make you confused,” Gyan added.

Asamoah Gyan, revealing how he prepares himself before he takes a penalty kick, on Black Stars Classics on Max TV with host Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, said “It’s all about confidence and technique, I thank God I have got that technique and confidence, it’s all about confidence. Somebody can be a very good expert or a good penalty taker but when you don’t have the confidence when you go there you will mess it up.”

As the all-time leading goalscorer of the Ghana national team, with 51 goals. Gyan has represented Ghana at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups. With 6 goals, he is the top African goalscorer in the history of the World Cup.

He has also represented Ghana at the 2004 summer Olympics and in seven African Cup of Nations in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019 helping them finish in third-place in 2008 and runner-up in 2010 and 2015.