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What Diego Maradona and Van Nistelrooy said about Asamoah Gyan's significance
Maradona portrayed Gyan as indispensable
At the prime of Asamoah Gyan's vocation, his exhibition didn't just draw in the consideration of football fans yet in addition football stars including Argentina football legend Diego Maradona and Netherlands legend Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
After an amazing showcase in Ghana's 2-2 game against Germany at the 2014 World Cup when Gyan was playing in the UAE, Ruud Van Nistelrooy addressed why such an ability was playing in the UAE rather than Europe.
Van Nistelrooy asked Gyan to get back to Europe to play among a portion of the huge stars in football.
"For what reason is Gyan playing in the UAE? I don't have the foggiest idea what he is doing there. He ought to play with a top side in Europe. He had a colossal game [against Germany]," Van Nistelrooy said on ESPN.
Gyan turned into the record marking player for Sunderland in 2010 costing them £13 million however chosen to join Al Ain a year after the fact with a guessed advance charge of £6 million and later marked an extremely durable arrangement with the UAE club after an effective season.
Gyan was a significant danger to contradicting safeguards in UAE, scoring 123 objectives in 123 games in all rivalries.
During his stretch in UAE, the late Diego Maradona depicted the Ghanaian striker as a perilous player and conceded that Gyan was indispensable at Al Ain.
"Al Ain have lost Gyan. He is an extremely risky player, so we need to keep a watch out how they oversee without him," Diego Maradona offered this expression when he oversaw Al Wasl.
He won the Pro League objective scorers honor in three back to back seasons.
After his four years spell with Al Ain, Gyan came out on top for five championships which included 3 UAE Pro League, UAE President's Cup and UAE Super Cup.
Gyan is the principal African player to score in three World Cup finals in succession.
With Cameroonian symbol Roger Milla, he holds the record for most objectives scored by an African at the World Cup.
He is the most youthful player to score for Ghana, and he right now holds the West Africans' unsurpassed objective scoring record with 40 objectives in 80 games.
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