Asamoah Gyan Breaks Silence: Why He Forgives Luis Suarez’s Infamous Handball Despite Personal Heartbreak

“He was sent off, then I stepped up for the penalty, in the final seconds of the match. It would have been very fair for us to win that game, but unfortunately I didn’t convert – my penalty hit the crossbar. For a while, that became the most famous penalty in the world – one that everybody was talking about.

“But it’s part of the game. Life goes on. Soon, I had to take another one – I was Ghana’s first player to take a penalty in the shootout, and I scored. I remember when I joined Sunderland from Rennes two months later, for a club-record fee of £13 million, the manager Steve Bruce said, “You have balls – missing a crucial penalty, then coming back to score the first one in the shootout, that’s the main reason why I signed you.

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