Ghana international, Joseph Paintsil has opened up on what Coach Otto Addo shockingly told him after excluding him from the 2022 FIFA World Cup squad of the Black Stars.
According to him, after his unfair axing from the final 26-man squad of Ghana, coach Otto Addo told him that football is not all about goals and assists/
"His [Otto Addo's] decision was unfair. He gave me no valid reason to explain my absence. I told him the same thing during a phone conversation,” the KRC Genk attacker told Belang van Limburg.
Joseph Paintsil added, “He told me that there were players ahead of me in the hierarchy. Among them, there were guys who, like me, play in the Jupiler Pro League.
“They didn't have couldn't present the same stats, but Addo said football isn't all about goals and assists."
With the World Cup now over, Joseph Paintsil is fully focused on club football and hopes the next Ghana head coach will give him the chance to return to the Black Stars for the next national team assignment.