Ghana coach Otto Addo - Photo Ghana FA Media.
Ghana coach Otto Addo has strongly refuted claims he will resign his role with the Black Stars following the team’s dismal performance at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.
The Black Stars concluded their group matches with a 2-1 home defeat against Niger at Accra Sports Stadium. Niger took the lead in the 12th minute through Ousseini Badamassai, but Ghana equalized in the 67th minute courtesy of Jerry Afriyie's goal.
However, Niger sealed the win in the 92nd minute with Oumar Sako's free-kick strike.
Asked whether he will resign, Otto Addo said: “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.
“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.”
On how he felt now that Ghana failed to qualify, Addo said: “I'm very, very sad, look, when, when I go home to my family, I don't even want to go home, because when I go home, I will see them crying. They are very, very sad, and I will be sad as well. I'm also sad. I'm very sad and I am sad that people around me and Ghanaians are sad. It touches me very much.
“There's a different understanding I don't think you will get it, because, I was born in Germany for me, to come down here, it's always with the heart, always, you know. There are some others even changing nationalities to play for a different country; I never had this in my heart, never. I always want to play for Ghana; I always want to represent Ghana.”
Ghana finished their Group F matches without winning a single game.
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