Ghana and Crawley Town striker, Kwesi Appiah has welcomed Asamoah Gyan’s desire to return to the Black Stars for the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament.
Gyan has not played for the Black Stars 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.
The 36-year-old is the all-time leading goalscorer of Ghana, with 51 goals.
"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."
Reacting to a portion of the interview posted on Twitter by the BBC World Service, Kwesi Appiah says he will love to see Asamoah Gyan back with the Black Stars.
“Things we love to see. Respect to the big bro Asamoah Gyan. Good stuff John Bennett BBC,” the experienced striker said.