Black Stars team manager Ameenu Shardow has expressed his conviction that Ghana would have experienced significant progress if Otto Addo had continued as the coach, despite the team’s failure to advance from the group stage at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Under Addo’s guidance, Ghana secured qualification to the prestigious tournament, defeating fierce rivals Nigeria in the final qualifying round. However, their World Cup campaign saw them secure only a 3-2 victory against South Korea, while suffering defeats against Portugal and Uruguay, resulting in an early exit.
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Following Ghana’s final group game, a 2-0 loss to Uruguay, Addo resigned from his position. Subsequently, the Ghana Football Association appointed Chris Hughton, who had previously served as Addo’s technical advisor, as the new coach of the Black Stars.
“The different changes of managers within this short period of time clearly hasn’t helped us. Dropping and changing here and there is not healthy. We need some level of consistency and continuity but at that level when the results are not coming, you are more or less tempted to pull the plug to have a reset,” Ameenu said on Sports Ultras show on 3FM.
“It is about putting the right person in there but you cannot have the definition of who the right person is until the person gets in there and start working.
Shardow expressed his belief in Addo’s potential, saying “I have always said I believe that we would have been better off with Otto Addo continuing because he made mistakes at the World Cup. He’s never been at that level before. He is somebody who takes lessons out of failures. And I believe we would have been better placed to make the right decisions now, but that is gone.
“Lucky enough we have somebody who was also part and parcel of the team in a position to make certain decisions. Perhaps he has the benefits of hindsight because he saw whatever went on and I believe he is making the right calls now.”
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Hughton is expected to qualify Ghana for the 2023 AFCON to be held in Ivory Coast as well as start the qualification campaign for Ghana in their quest to make their fifth appearance at the World Cup following the preliminary draw for the 2026 World Cup to be co-hosted by United States, Mexico and Canada.