Otto Addo believes working with best coaches will help him bring out the best in Black Stars players

Published on: 08 April 2022

Ghana coach Otto Addo believes working with some of the best coaches in the world will help him bring out the best in the Black Stars players ahead of the World Cup.

The 46-year-old worked as the assistant trainer at Danish side Nordsjaelland before moving to Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund.

In December 2020, he was promoted to serve as first team assistant coach to Edin Terzić who had been promoted to interim head coach, following the sacking of head coach Lucien Favre.

“I’ve been able to learn a lot from excellent coaches like Lucien Favre, Edin Terzic and Marco Rose," coach Addo said as quoted by cafonline.com.

“The fact that I deal with the players even more intensively and individually has also helped me in my dealings with the national players."

He won his first trophy as a coach after Dortmund defeated RB Leipzig in the finals of the 2020/21 DFB-Pokal.

Otto Addo led Ghana to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, becoming the first Ghanaian player ever to feature at the World Cup and also qualify the team to the global showpiece.

Following the qualification, Otto Addo also became the second ingenious coach to take Ghana to the tournament after Kwesi Appiah in 2014.

The 46-year-old replaced Milovan Rajevac who was sacked after a humiliating exit at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.

Addo, a former Ghana player is currently the assistant coach of German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund boasts of about 13 years of coaching experience that dates back to 2009 when he first took up the job of an assistant coach at Hamburger SV.

He previously worked as a scout for the Black Stars in 2013 prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.

Addo was part of Ghana’s squad which featured in 2006 World Cup in Germany where he made his debut in the 2-0 win over Czech Republic.

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