Brave heart: Asamoah Gyan

Fianlly I got little time to do few posts. After four quarter finals with a lot of passion and drama, and non one of them ended without a historical story. We all saw the games, so I won't talk about them, but I will post few opinions on key players or coaches.

I start with the Brave Heart man as I call him. Asamoah Gyan, with shirt number 3 from Ghana.

Listen to these words from this site:

"If your name is Asamoah Gyan we salute you. We salute you because you are going to need it. Every single day, for the rest of your life, you are going to think about what just happened and one day you are going to start beating yourself up over it. "

Now, let me say, why I gave the guy who turned away Ghana chances to be the first ever African side to go to the semi-final this title.

I remember in 1998 opening game of Italy vs. Chile, Italy was losing 1-2 and a penalty was awarded to Italy. Roberto Baggio stepped over to take it.

At that moment, I said, wow, what a brave guy. You need to have so much guts to do this. Baggio last game in the World Cup ended by missing a penalty that gave Brazil the 1994 title.

Baggio scored it in a nice way. 

Now, this is nothing at all compared to what Gyan gone through in the Uruguay game. Last minute of the extra time, and all he needed to do is to score the penalty kick, and he will be a national hero taking Ghana for a dream semi-final in the World Cup.

After that miss, my jaw hit the floor seeing Gyan himself walking on to take the first of the all Penalty Kicks. Not only that, but the way he performed it was one of best ever penalties I ever seen. And for a right footted player, that was the most difficult spot to kick the ball, and the most difficult for a keeper to save.

A lot of respect to Gyan, though he disappointed millions of people around the world who were cheering for Ghana beautiful team.