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Former Ghana captain and top striker Asamoah Gyan has set sights on playing for Ghana at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar later this year.
The former Liberty Professionals FC player has been out of the Black Stars team since the 2019 AFCON tournament in Egypt and last featured actively in the 2020/21 season for Ghana Premier League side, Legon Cities where he made just five appearances and failed to score.
Nonetheless, the former Sunderland striker hopes to get back in shape before the World Cup in Qatar later this year to have a go at Luiz Suárez and Uruguay.
“Anything can happen, it has happened before back in 1994 when Roger Milla came back from retirement to play in the World Cup,” he told BBC Sports’ John Bennett.
“But I haven’t retired yet, I haven’t announced my retirement, I have been out for almost two years now due to injuries and my body shutting down.
“I just need to get my body back in shape, so I have started training of course and I’ll see how my body reacts to playing competitive football. Talent wise, everything is there already, so I just have to prepare physically and then we’ll see what happens.”
Gyan added, “Honestly, I haven’t spoken to anybody yet, it’s part of the plan. I just want to see how my body reacts first.”
“My manager and I have been talking behind the scenes, so we just have to make sure we know what we are doing.
‘Everything is in progress, everything looks positive, so we will see what happens, there might be a surprise.”
Ghana are in Group H of the World Cup with former European champions Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay.
His six goals at the FIFA Mundial makes him the top African goalscorer in the history of the World Cup.
By: D. N. A. MENSAH, Daily Mail GH /Follow the writer @SkipperWrites on Twitter
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