Ghana coach Otto Addo © Ampe Rogerio/BackpagePix
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024. 15:00
Ghana head coach Otto Addo has reacted to calls for him to resign following the team’s failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals.
The Black Stars failed to reach the AFCON finals for the first time since 2004 after drawing with Angola 1-1 on Friday before finishing at the bottom of Group F standings after losing 2-1 to Niger at home on Monday.
Addo has suggested that he will not resign with the Black Stars set to resume their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign in March as they take on Chad at home and Madagascar away.
“Surely you don’t know me, you don’t know my life, what I’ve been doing and where I was, I was very down, people have been chasing me, whatever, you don’t know my life, but I’m nobody who can just wake up and resign,” Addo said on the Ghana FA website.
“If I would have done this, I would never become a national player, I would never become. I would never become a player in the Bundesliga and I would never become a coach, you know I have a very, very different mindset than somebody who would resign, different mindset, totally, towards them.
“And I have to protect them, if I would sit here and maybe be sad, maybe when I go home, I’ll be sad, but for them, I have to protect them, so this is the first thing.”
Addo was appointed Ghana coach in March this year on a 34-month contract with an option to extend by another two years.
