Ghana legend Asamoah Gyan has revealed that his senior brother Baffour Gyan gave up on football after being dropped from the Black Stars squad for the 2006 World Cup.
According to the all-time leading top scorer of the Black Stars, Baffour played in most of the World Cup qualifiers which saw the country qualify for its first World Cup tournament.
However he was later dropped and put on the standby list whilst those who had not tasted the qualifiers nor played a single game for the team were taken to the World Cup.”.
The former Ghana captain has urged the technical handlers of the national team to consider players who have toiled during the qualifiers for the World Cup tournament.
“It happened to my brother [Baffour Gyan]. In 2006 [when Ghana qualified for the World Cup for the first time], he played 90 per cent of the qualifiers and then they brought strikers who had never tasted one game [for the tournament in Germany]. He was on the standby [list],” he said.
“That was when my brother gave up on football. He doesn’t follow football, he doesn’t watch it, he doesn’t like it, he’s purely a businessman. Sometimes people have to be treated fairly.”
Gyan added: “No player would like to be [left out], especially having played all the games. When these players come, they don’t even play one game. They just sit on the bench, get their bonuses and go, they don’t compete.
“If they bring these players, they have to show us something, they have to prove to people that they deserve to get into the team, that’s all I want. We all want the national team to be better.”
Asamoah Gyan played in three World Cup tournaments for the Black Stars from 2006, 2010 and 2014.
He scored six goals in the tournament to set the record as the African with the highest number of goals surpassing Cameroon legend Rodger Milla with his goal against Portugal in 2014.