The trainer who built this brightest Ghana. Naturalized several stars myself
The national team of Ghana in the XXI century has become one of the strongest African teams. And although the Ghanaians have not taken the African Cup for 40 years, everything is in order at the international level. Of the last five World Cups, Ghana missed only one: in Germany, and in South Africa, and in Brazil, and in Qatar, the black stars did not go only to Russia.
But the golden generation of the Ghana national team, which in 2010 did not reach the semi-finals only because of the hand of Luis Suarez, it ends. Therefore, at the 2022 World Cup, the composition of the Ghanaians is unusual. And he is very good: 2:3 with Portugal, 3:2 with South Korea and great chances to reach the playoffs.
Otto Addo coaches Ghana, he himself finished playing for Ghana only in 2006. He was not a star of the national team, but at the club level he played in Borussia Dortmund and even became the champion in 2002. melbet-azerbaycan.com should not be surprising: Addo was born in Germany (his parents moved there in the 1970s) and spent his entire playing career there.
Quite a lot of people left for Germany in the second half of the 20th century Ghanaians in the 60-70s there were several military coups in the country, and in the wake of instability, many Ghanaians who left for Germany to study remained there. In addition, the Germans were easier than others to give political asylum and generously helped migrants, so many refugees from Africa were sent there.
Addo actually had no chance of getting into the German national team, so in 1999 he agreed to play for Ghana . She has always been actively involved in scouting and looking for Ghanaians who were born and played football in Europe (another example from Germany is Kevin-Prince Boateng).
Coincidence or not, but it was Addo who launched a new wave of naturalization. In 2012-2015, he was the chief scout of the Ghana national team.
After my career, I thought: okay, what can I do now? I went into scouting for a couple of months to see if I liked it, Addo said. It was ok. Traveling and watching matches by myself was a bit unusual, because I'm the kind of guy who likes company.
Then the opportunity came to work with the U-19 team in Hamburg as an assistant. I enjoy working with young people and people in general. I liked this experience and I decided: well, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
Addo has worked in Hamburg, Nordsjælland, Borussia Gladbach and in Dortmund, where he took trophies as a player. Otto did not work as the main one, he was also an assistant, and even a youth coach. He was responsible for the transition of young players to the first team.
Every time a young player was promoted to the first team, he was lost and felt lonely, Addo recalled. They were just a number on the main team number 23 or 24. Nobody spoke to them. And it was a completely different experience.
Addo's duty was, in fact, mentoring: he communicated with young players, arranged meetings with the head coach for them, conveyed the wishes of the youth coach and vice versa so that the players could adapt to the philosophy.< /p>
Addo identifies three key elements of this work: individual video analysis (discussing actions in training), helping to change the approach in the game (how to easily move from a youth team to a senior team, what to pay attention to) and main mentoring off the field .
Once or twice a month I would gather my group of talented players: youth from the first team and three or four top players from the U-23s, U-19s and U-17s, Otto said. Sometimes we met and had dinner, discussed all sorts of personal things. If I felt that a player had a problem, I spoke to him personally. I am always there for them, if they want to talk, someone needs it more, someone less. We talked about personal life. I am sure that the better the relationship, the better I can train them, they will not perceive criticism from me negatively, but will perceive it as a help.
