Former Asante Kotoko and Great Olympics coach, J.E Sarpong says Asamoah Gyan has retired with pain in his heart.
Gyan, who holds the record as the country's all-time leading goalscorer on Tuesday announced his retirement from active football.
And according to the veteran trainer, the former Black Stars skipper still has more to offer but he has been forced to retire from football.
"Asamoah Gyan is someone who can charter a whole plane and pick a whole team to Ghana for a tournament I mean a competition. Because he doesn't want his colleagues to be late a sign of maturity and a sign of a love for the country and a love for a team so what else do you want him to do? No (I am not pleased with his ending) he had more to give to the nation," he told Accra-based Original FM as monitored by Footballghana.com.
"He has pained and he retired with hurt in him. Everybody who will retire if they are talking they talk with happiness I have finished my work that is when you can't kick again. But for someone to weep on set it means he has a job undone but he has been forced by circumstances to call it quits," he added.
Gyan last played for the Black Stars in 2019 during the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.