Otto Addo sets new record with Ghana after World Cup 2022 qualification

Interim Black Stars coach, Otto Addo has set a new record with the Ghana national team after his World Cup 2022 qualification.

Otto Addo masterminded Ghana’s qualification to the 2022 World Cup which will come on in Qatar in November this year after eliminating Nigeria at the Mashood Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Tuesday night.

The Black Stars secures a historic 4^th FIFA World Cup tournament having participated in 2006, 2010 and 2014 in Germany, South Africa and Brazil respectively.

The Ghana Football Association appointed Otto Addo in an interim basis for the 2022 World Cup playoffs after the dismissal of Serbian trainer Milovan Rajevac right after the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon.

Otto Addo who has about 13 years of coaching experience that dates back to 2009 when he first took up the job of an Assistant Coach at Hamburger SV has now become the only person in Ghana’s history to feature at the World Cup (as aplayer) and subsequently qualify the team to the global football fiesta (as a coach).

Otto Addo also becomes the second ingenious coach to take Ghana to the World Cup after Kwasi Appiah did it in 2014.

The former Dortmund star was a key member of the Black Stars at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, when what was a very young team advanced to the round of 16, where they lost 3-0 at the hands of Brazil – the country’s first-ever appearance at the Mundial.

Addo represented Ghana at the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations and went on to win 15 caps for the Black Stars.

The 46-year old previously worked as a scout for the Black Stars in 2013 prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.