Former Black Stars midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has apologised for supporting the cause of bringing back Otto Addo as Head Coach of the national team.
“Let me first thank you and greet your panellists,” he started on Agoro Fie on Onua TV after the Black Stars lost 2-0 to Sudan in their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Tuesday, October 15.
“And I apologise. Those who advocated the second coming of coach Otto Addo, if you go into my interviews I gave him massive support but I’m sorry.
“It seems the task is beyond him,” he told host Alfred Takyi-Mensah.
Otto Addo took over from Milovan Rajevac after the poor run at the 2021 AFCON to qualify Ghana for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
He resigned after the Qatar World Cup for Chris Hughton to take over.
After the Irishman’s poor major tournament with the 2010 World Cup quarter-finalists at the 2023 AFCON, Otto Addo was re-hired by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) as coach despite not meeting some of the requirements set out.
Since his second coming, the former Dortmund scout has won two games.
For the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup winner, the task is beyond Otto Addo.
He also said the Black Stars has been on the nosedive for some time now, just that the situation has been massaged by all.
“Sometimes when you talk about these things, you are tagged as a bad person.”
For him, the Black Stars don’t deserve to go play at the AFCON if they cannot beat a team like Niger.
He is, therefore, urging stakeholders to go to the drawing board even if it will take about three years of not participating in any major tournament to re-strategise and come back strong.
By Kwame Amoh || Onua Sports
