Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu believes Asamoah Gyan will not be ready for the 2022 World Cup, despite the striker declaring his intention to feature in Qatar.
Gyan told the BBC that he hopes to rejoin the Black Stars for the World Cup. The 36-year-old admitted he needs to get back into shape after not playing for the Black Stars in three years and being without a club since October 2021.
But Agyemang-Badu doubts his former Black Stars team will be ready with only three months to the start of the World Cup.
“From my side, I don’t think [Asamoah] Gyan will be ready [for the World Cup],” he told Joy Sports.
“Training alone and training with a club is different. He knows the stage [World Cup] more than me. He has been there more than me. He has been there three times, he has been the captain in 2014 so he knows the kind of stage it is.
“Training alone two-and-half months before a tournament like this – for my experience I have when I have an injury for six months and came back it took me like three or four months before I got better.
“I don’t think he will be ready for the World Cup.”
However, Agyemang-Badu believes the Ghana Football Association (GFA) can include Gyan in the technical team to train the strikers.
“What we can offer him is for him to be there to help with the striking side as the striker’s coach but for the field of play, he can never be ready for the World Cup,” he added.