Ghana’s national team captain, Asamoah Gyan has disclosed that boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr is his mentor thus naming one of his sons after him.

According to him, he looks upto Mayweather as well as takes deep inspiration from him.

‘’Floyd Mayweather is my role model and it is because of him I named my son Floyed Gyan. Because Floyd Mayweather speaks the truth and when he does, people don’t understand him and publicly condemn him sometimes. But these are hypocrites 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’’.

Asamoah Gyan also said he usually do not want to put his family in the lime light opined that he has three children, all boys, but said he wouldn’t force any of them to play football if they don’t want to.

His sons are named, Fredrick Gyan, Raphael Gyan and Floyd Gyan.