Ghana coach Otto Addo praises backroom staff ahead of Nigeria showdown

Published on: 22 March 2024

Ghana coach Otto Addo has lauded his backroom staff input ahead of their game against Nigeria.

The four-time Africa Champions will engage the Super Eagles of Nigeria in an international friendly game on Friday at 4pm.

The highly competitive game is expected to be played at the Grande de Stade Marrakesh in Morocco.

Otto Addo is back for a second spell with the Black Stars, with Joseph Laumann, John Paintsil and Fatau Dauda serving as his assistants.

Speaking of the match, Otto Addo narrated how his technical team has helped him improve ahead of the game against Nigeria.

“First of all, I knew all of them before the job. I played with John Painstil together. For Fatawu Dauda, I met him in 2014 at the World Cup and it was really, really nice to get together to share ideas and also to fit”

“As for Joe (Joseph Laumann) I know him from Germany, he is an expert. He has really, really good eyes for the situations, to react fast but he is also very, very attentive to any kind of things which are distractive and on the other side attentive to other things which can help to develop the group and the team as such”

“So they have given me very, very important inputs from and it's really, really good to have them. I can feel after the first four days that they have helped me to improve and this is what we want to have” he said.

Otto Addo will be hoping for a flying start in his second stint with the senior national soccer team, the Black Stars.

He replaced Chris Hughton following an abysmal performance at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.

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