Ghana\u2019s national team captain, Asamoah Gyan discloses that boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr is his mentor. Therefore, he named one of his sons after him.<\/p>\n
According to him, he looks up to Mayweather. Also, he takes deep inspiration from him.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019Floyd Mayweather is my role model and it is because of him I named my son Floyed Gyan. Because Floyd Mayweather speaks the truth. Also, when he does, people don\u2019t understand him and publicly condemn him sometimes. But these are hypocrites. This is because in their quite time when they reflect about what he has said very well, then they agree that he has done the right thing\u2019\u2019.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Moreover, he stated that he has three children, all boys, but said he wouldn\u2019t force any of them to play football if they don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n
His sons are named, Fredrick Gyan, Raphael Gyan and Floyd Gyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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