Ghana FA boss explains Otto Addo sacking

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Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

If those who elected the current GFA Executives were Credible and not Corrupt, they would have called for the sack of Kurts Okraku. U17 ,U20 & U23 have alll not been performing well for the past 10yrs.The local league is also ...
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If those who elected the current GFA Executives were Credible and not Corrupt, they would have called for the sack of Kurts Okraku. U17 ,U20 & U23 have alll not been performing well for the past 10yrs.The local league is also not doing well bcoz whenever they go to Africa they are easily kicked out.These are areas that any good Coach would have picked his players for Black Stars. If the feeding ground has been destroyed by Kurts Okraku and his Criminal Gang, how do you expect Otto Addo to succeed?
Naneama!!!! 1 month ago

I saw no reason here. The dismissal was just to satisfy himself. It's obvious to me he intends to engage a foreign coach for the world cup. If performance was anything to go by, then the team had improved significantly consid ...
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I saw no reason here. The dismissal was just to satisfy himself. It's obvious to me he intends to engage a foreign coach for the world cup. If performance was anything to go by, then the team had improved significantly considering the game with Germany. Their second goal on another day would have been ruled out for offside. After all do we not say Ghana improves as competitions progress? Did Kurt see how the Germans moved and passed the ball? Which of his players did same.
Japan beat England yesterday but their coach remains at post.
ANKORA WASH DC 1 month ago

Much a talk about nothing. Do you seriously believe that the first half performance against Germany was something to brag about?
Otto Addo couldn’t have survived this long in any job around the world with such incompetent ...
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Much a talk about nothing. Do you seriously believe that the first half performance against Germany was something to brag about?
Otto Addo couldn’t have survived this long in any job around the world with such incompetent performance.
God safe Ghana 1 month ago

What is the reason? Come again!!!. Too late to sack the coach. It seems this had already been decided before the trip.

What is the reason? Come again!!!. Too late to sack the coach. It seems this had already been decided before the trip.
Truth 1 month ago

Manchester United started doing well immediately after they sacked their stubborn coach, who played just like Otto Addo. By force 3 at the back and using players out of position. The current coach is just playing to the playe ...
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Manchester United started doing well immediately after they sacked their stubborn coach, who played just like Otto Addo. By force 3 at the back and using players out of position. The current coach is just playing to the players strenght and now they are way on course to qualify for Europe. One of the best in England AGAIN!
Gaslg 1 month ago

1. James Akwasi Appiah
2 Otto Addo
That's all

1. James Akwasi Appiah
2 Otto Addo
That's all
Nuumobi 1 month ago

Otoo, my heart is with you. You've just been stabbed in the back. That is the Ghanaian for you. We hate our own but God is not asleep.

Otoo, my heart is with you. You've just been stabbed in the back. That is the Ghanaian for you. We hate our own but God is not asleep.
We Are Tired 1 month ago

But you didn't see his CV before you engaged him.

But you didn't see his CV before you engaged him.
Islam is nonsense 1 month ago

Where is the explanation?. Kurt single handedly appointed Otto in spite of the disapproval of most Ghanaians. He refused to listen to the fans when we told him that Otto was not suited for the position, refused to sack him wh ...
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Where is the explanation?. Kurt single handedly appointed Otto in spite of the disapproval of most Ghanaians. He refused to listen to the fans when we told him that Otto was not suited for the position, refused to sack him when he failed to qualify for the Afcon, which likely wouldn’t have cost us money because it would have been based on non-performance, only to now sack him at a huge cost to the taxpayer. Too-known Kurt doesn’t listen to anyone despite the continual failure of his substandard administration. He has wasted all of our time and has now left little time to appoint a new coach who wouldn’t have enough time and games to select players and prepare properly for the World Cup. Kurt and his GFA have destroyed the local league and used the junior national teams to market their sub-standard players. Now we are struggling to produce quality players for the black stars, but too known Kurt has the solution. He’s globe trotting looking for players of Ghanaian heritage to beg them to play for us. Ghana, where we have abounding football talent. Tweaa Yawa people. These players haven’t been groomed together from the junior level and have been struggling since the last world cup 4 years ago to gel, which is not their fault. I’ve heard some people say that we can use the World Cup as preparation for the Afcon, haha backward thinking paaa. You want to use the biggest football tournament in the world which only comes around every 4 years, to prepare for Afcon? Jokers.
Martin Kreisler 1 month ago

Mr. Chairman, the question is, howcome it took you so long to make these obvious observations about the coach, and finally listen to wise council on the coach's unsuitability for the position he held?

Mr. Chairman, the question is, howcome it took you so long to make these obvious observations about the coach, and finally listen to wise council on the coach's unsuitability for the position he held?

Ataya 1 month ago

So so said for Otoo Addo to be shown the door at this crucial moment. Addo loves Ghana deeply just like any Ghanaian.
He has improved massively from Austria Game.
Otoo Addo God is with you. Your enemies will be put to sha ...
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So so said for Otoo Addo to be shown the door at this crucial moment. Addo loves Ghana deeply just like any Ghanaian.
He has improved massively from Austria Game.
Otoo Addo God is with you. Your enemies will be put to shame. In Jesus name
Ogyamatta the Gamechanger 1 month ago

I have being vindicated. I was always On the heels On the GFA and Otto Addo because the job is or was bigger than Otto.

Okraku use the national team for his own personal business.

Thanks to Hon. Kofi Adams for orches ...
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I have being vindicated. I was always On the heels On the GFA and Otto Addo because the job is or was bigger than Otto.

Okraku use the national team for his own personal business.

Thanks to Hon. Kofi Adams for orchestrating Otto's dismissal. If it wasn't him forcing the FA, like Kurt and his goons will have still allowed Ottoo Addo to do his bad job.

Now Ghana needs a No nonsense coach who is very disciplined to for example bench Jordan Ayew
3rdEye 1 month ago

Nice submission till your final third.

Bench Jordan Ayew and field your grandmother?! Then go get boots, hose and shin guard for her!

Hater! Mtchew.

Nice submission till your final third.

Bench Jordan Ayew and field your grandmother?! Then go get boots, hose and shin guard for her!

Hater! Mtchew.
OKOROMANSAH 1 month ago

The timing was wrong. We are not a well resourced nation, so changing coaches within weeks of a big tournament is not the best thing to do, no matter what!

A new coach would need enough time to gel with the players in orde ...
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The timing was wrong. We are not a well resourced nation, so changing coaches within weeks of a big tournament is not the best thing to do, no matter what!

A new coach would need enough time to gel with the players in order to achieve good performance. In fact, a new coach would need time to select players he would feel fit his own aspirations. Two months is not time enough to achieve this.

In well resourced environments, a replacement coach would have been spotted long before Otto Addo was sacked, considering the dire circumstances! I hope the GFA is not going to start putting together and issuing out complicated application forms and planning long and extended interviews!

But, we are all Ghanaians, and would wish only the best for the country. Let us hope that we never come to a stage when we would start feeling bad for some decisions our leaders took.
Abroampa 1 month ago

Im not sure that any decent Coach worth his salt will step in for the Job,considering the very little time left to the begining of the Worldcup. Im very convinced that only some opportunist and hardcore gambler of a Coach wil ...
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Im not sure that any decent Coach worth his salt will step in for the Job,considering the very little time left to the begining of the Worldcup. Im very convinced that only some opportunist and hardcore gambler of a Coach will go for the Job.
Philla philla 1 month ago

You okraku also deserved to be sacked

You okraku also deserved to be sacked
Nii Joromi 1 month ago

No top class European coach can take this weak BS beyond the group stages. Period. Don't blame Otto Addo.

No top class European coach can take this weak BS beyond the group stages. Period. Don't blame Otto Addo.
Yaw Bee 1 month ago

OKRAKU AND HIS COHORTS MUST GO!!!!######

OKRAKU AND HIS COHORTS MUST GO!!!!######
Jack 1 month ago

This guy.
He is only going I, I, I.

This guy.
He is only going I, I, I.
Hmm 1 month ago

All the players in Europe are all playing their local games and these are the players who will represent their countries. We have our local players here in Ghana we could have groomed to join the black stars. How do we expect ...
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All the players in Europe are all playing their local games and these are the players who will represent their countries. We have our local players here in Ghana we could have groomed to join the black stars. How do we expect our players who don't know each other well to do well. Brazil is also struggling because almost all the players are in Europe so they have forgotten the Brazilian style of play. Bring Jose Mourino, we would still lose to because the team itself is struggling. Sacking the coach isn't the issue, it's the GFA itself; how they manage football in Ghana is the major issue. Why should we be looking for players in Europe to join Black stars when whiles we have players in Kotoko, Hearts of Oak, etc? Can't we groom players from there, can't we get players from any good academy based in Ghana? Our leaders are our own downfall. We lost to Austria, very sad but we were able to hold a better team than Austria, isn't that improvement? Brazil lost to France, they didn't sack Anceloti. This things give me headaches. Education isn't working, our healthcare is bad, our industries are struggling, production is dead, agric has nothing to talk about, as for technology, we are now learning what a computer is in Ghana. The only department that is working at least from 2006 is now collapsed. If our sports too is dead, then Ghana is only a useless political environment to live in. What is wrong with you guys err GFA, what have we done to you guys that you messed everything up? Don't we have the right as citizens to choose those who should manage our public properties? The team belongs to the nation not one person who kept destroying our beautiful games.

Aku 1 month ago

Well he got us there and then you let him go?? Hmm

Well he got us there and then you let him go?? Hmm
Jaymee 1 month ago

We are not addressing the root cause of our demise in world football. THe GFA set up is flawed. At all levels we are woeful despite qualifying for the WC. Where are we at the junior level. Take a lookat Senegal. They are per ...
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We are not addressing the root cause of our demise in world football. THe GFA set up is flawed. At all levels we are woeful despite qualifying for the WC. Where are we at the junior level. Take a lookat Senegal. They are performing at all levels from junior to senior. Why do u have to own a team or be associated with a club to be in football management.Football adn=minstration is not rocket science. Kurt et al are only intrested in money tey make for players in their clubs so they can get transfer fees. Too many unecessary ppl in wrong places.CUt ths crap out .Government shd not even be funding GFA. If GFA makes proper decisions even banks will give them money in a heart beat cos they will seee the return on investment.
Kwesi 1 month ago

Who is going sack you since you and gang are part of the root problem plaguing Ghana football

Who is going sack you since you and gang are part of the root problem plaguing Ghana football
Ghanaman 1 month ago

Kurt Okraku is the sole responsable of Black Stars mess. Okraku dosent understand a simple ENGLISH he should have look his words up in a dictionary when he set up a CRITERIA for looking for a coach. He said the GFA wants a c ...
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Kurt Okraku is the sole responsable of Black Stars mess. Okraku dosent understand a simple ENGLISH he should have look his words up in a dictionary when he set up a CRITERIA for looking for a coach. He said the GFA wants a coach of 15 years experience, who have won a major tournament and so on. He later said 60 coaches have applied for the job Otto Addo was not among of these 60 applicants,, SO WHY CHOOSING HIM ? The criteria GFA set up was out of Otto Addo's grips, no 15 years experience, no major tournament won,, wasnt a coach at that time. So why was he appointed . Ghanaians must not blame Otto Addo , all the blames must be on GFA and Okraku.
Bro Dickson 1 month ago

Otto Addo has to be jailed

Otto Addo has to be jailed
Bro Dickson 1 month ago

Otto Addo has to be jailed

Otto Addo has to be jailed
Nana Kwadwo Akuffo 1 month ago

Go and jail him.
Kwasia ba.

Go and jail him.
Kwasia ba.
Bro Dickson 1 month ago

Otto Addo has to be jailed

Otto Addo has to be jailed
Bro Dickson 1 month ago

Otto Addo has to be jailed

Otto Addo has to be jailed
As usual hasty and illogical decision 1 month ago

Whoever sacks a coach who's clearly able to play so well against a world champion team

Whoever sacks a coach who's clearly able to play so well against a world champion team

COD 1 month ago

It still beats my mind why we almost always elect and or appoint fools to manage our national concerns.
The Coach and the team have qualified for the WC.
They are preparing including playing friendlies.
Just because of the ...
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It still beats my mind why we almost always elect and or appoint fools to manage our national concerns.
The Coach and the team have qualified for the WC.
They are preparing including playing friendlies.
Just because of the two friendly games loses, you sack the Coach barely two months to the commencement of the WC tournament?
Only incompetent fools do that.
Ghana is surely going for a very poor showing.
England will "wash" us up of our stupidity.
Nana Kwadwo Akuffo 1 month ago

Stupid explanation.

Stupid explanation.
FUNKY CHALLU 1 month ago

THE NO.1 PROBLEM WITH FOOTBALL IN GHANA IS JUST KURT OKRAKU PERIOD.NO GOOD RESULTS WILL EVER COME AS LONG AS THIS CLOWN REMAINS THERE.LET'S BOOT HIM OUT FOR BETTER RESULTS.

THE NO.1 PROBLEM WITH FOOTBALL IN GHANA IS JUST KURT OKRAKU PERIOD.NO GOOD RESULTS WILL EVER COME AS LONG AS THIS CLOWN REMAINS THERE.LET'S BOOT HIM OUT FOR BETTER RESULTS.
Ohene 1 month ago

I think Kurts Okraku too needs to go. What has he achieved in his position?

I think Kurts Okraku too needs to go. What has he achieved in his position?
Jack 1 month ago

They would share the severance package with Otto Addo

They would share the severance package with Otto Addo
The Wiseman 1 month ago

It's rather the GFA board including the hopeless minister that should resign without pension. Bloody idiots.

It's rather the GFA board including the hopeless minister that should resign without pension. Bloody idiots.
Einstein 1 month ago

All they had to do was leave things be just as Prophet Telvin said and Ghana will see wonders at the world cup but naah they had to take Otto out.
With this few days left how can a new coach understand the players and know t ...
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All they had to do was leave things be just as Prophet Telvin said and Ghana will see wonders at the world cup but naah they had to take Otto out.
With this few days left how can a new coach understand the players and know their strengths...oo terrible terrible terrible
Too Little Too Late 1 month ago

If Okraku wanted to get rid of Otto Addo, he should have done it immediately after we qualified for the World Cup. It would have been a tough decision back then, but I am sure it was an even tougher decision now. It would hav ...
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If Okraku wanted to get rid of Otto Addo, he should have done it immediately after we qualified for the World Cup. It would have been a tough decision back then, but I am sure it was an even tougher decision now. It would have been easier to let him hold on to the job and then get rid of him after the World Cup if we performed poorly.

There is just not enough time for a new Coach to takeover and get up to speed. We are setting the person up for failure. Whoever accepts this job has already accepted their fate. If we perform poorly that person will say they didn't have enough time and they would have a valid point. If I were the coach, why even try? Take the money and ran. There are no quick fixes or short cuts. A new coach may improve the team marginally but not enough to justify staying for the long term. We are screwed anyway you look at it.
Champion man 1 month ago

The GFA boss himself have to be sack long time and not the coach.

The GFA boss himself have to be sack long time and not the coach.
SAP 1 month ago

Is Kurt Okraku still at post? He is as useless and greedy as Randy Abbey, they only think about money. They don't have integrity, shameless duo!

Is Kurt Okraku still at post? He is as useless and greedy as Randy Abbey, they only think about money. They don't have integrity, shameless duo!

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