Asamoah Gyan, a former captain of the Black Stars, has said that his Christian faith is the reason he wore the number three shirt for most of his professional football career.
Gyan wore the number 3 on his jersey while playing for practically every side, whether it was at the club or national level, and he has offered a justification.
The number translates as God in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit when used in conjunction with the Christian theology of the Trinity.
“It was given to me by my senior brother, Baffour Gyan. He was with the number 3 jersey when I was coming to the national team,” Gyan told Pulse Ghana.
“This question I asked him when I was a kid and he told me God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, which is three,"
“And three number is very powerful, the number 3, for example, you want to lift something very heavy. You count three in your mind. One, two, three, so the three is very powerful, so you warn somebody for the first time, you warn the person for the second time, so the third one is very powerful,"
“So, for me, number three is a powerful number that is why,”
Gyan is the all-time leading goalscorer of the Ghana national team, with 51 goals. He 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,"