Former Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has revealed the exact words he uttered immediately after missing the decisive penalty against Uruguay at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Suarez blatantly blocked Dominic Adiyiah's header on the line with his hand and was promptly sent off - but Gyan could not take advantage as his penalty bounced off the bar. Suarez, watching on from the tunnel, wildly celebrated the miss.

The match went to a penalty shootout and Gyan scored Ghana's first penalty, but Uruguay won 4-2 before losing to the Netherlands in the semi-final.

Ghana equaled the African record for the best performance by reaching the quarter-finals in 2010 before Morocco made it better with a semi-final berth at the just-ended 2022 FIFA  World Cup in Qatar.

Asamoah Gyan has revealed that he exclaimed  I am dead in Twi after that painful miss.

"M'awu" in Twi to wits "I'm dead," he said at the Romanus Incomplete Comedy Show.

The former Sunderland ace is the highest-scoring African player with six goals at the FIFA  World Cup and is also Ghana's all-time scorer with  51 goals in 109 matches.