By Simon Asare
Accra, Nov. 19, GNA - Otto Addo, the Black Stars’ Head Coach, says he has not considered resigning despite the team’s terrible recent record.
Otto Addo has received a storm of criticism following some unwanted records with the Black Stars in recent months.
Under Otto Addo’s leadership, the Black Stars failed to win an AFCON qualification group game for the first time in the country’s history, and they also missed out on the competition for the first time in 20 years.
Otto Addo said at the post-match press conference on his mental toughness both as a player and as a coach.
When asked about whether he would 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.”
Otto Addo added that he was not perturbed about the negative criticism from the media and public as it forms part of the job regardless of whether you get good or bad results.
“I never give up on nothing. This is the way I came up. If you want to be, let’s say, a footballer, a professional, you will never give up, you fight, you work hard, and you work even harder than normal.
“You fall down 10 times, you stand up, and you stand up the 11th time and then you do it, this is how I made it, it’s not like, I came up, and then I made it as a professional and the same as a coach, as a coach, it’s not like, oh, somebody will just give you anything for granted, a badge, you have to work hard, you have to have teams, you have to work with them, you have to surely get results, which were not there, 100%,” he said.
The Black Stars would be in action next March as they continue their 2026 World Cup qualification campaign against Chad and Madagascar.
GNA