{"id":246537,"date":"2026-04-03T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=246537"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:31:25","slug":"i-am-happy-we-took-the-decision-to-sack-otto-addo-gfa-boss-kurt-okraku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/03\/i-am-happy-we-took-the-decision-to-sack-otto-addo-gfa-boss-kurt-okraku\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am happy we took the decision to sack Otto Addo&#8221; &#8211; GFA boss Kurt Okraku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of the <strong>Ghana Football Association (GFA)<\/strong>, <strong>Kurt Okraku<\/strong>, has defended the decision to retain <strong>Otto Addo<\/strong> after Ghana\u2019s failure to qualify for the <strong>2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)<\/strong>, insisting he has no regrets over the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Stars missed out on AFCON for the first time in 20 years after finishing bottom of a qualifying group that included <strong>Angola, Sudan, and Niger<\/strong>, sparking widespread criticism and calls for the coach\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the GFA opted to maintain confidence in Addo despite the disappointing campaign, a decision Okraku says was made collectively by the association\u2019s Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI never believed that I had to let the coach go at that time. And we never believed, as an ExCo, that we had to let the coach go at that time. And we stay with that position,\u201d<\/em> he told <em>3Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that certain internal considerations influenced their stance, even if not all details were publicly known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve all done football at various levels, and sometimes there are auxiliary reasons why certain decisions have to be taken or not to be taken. Some of these reasons are not available to a lot of people,\u201d<\/em> he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okraku maintained that the decision ultimately paid off, as Ghana secured qualification for the <strong>2026 FIFA World Cup<\/strong> under the same coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBut I look back, and I\u2019m happy that we took that decision. At the end, we qualified for the Mundial with the same gaffer, and I don\u2019t regret it at all,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite guiding Ghana to World Cup qualification, <strong>Otto Addo was later dismissed<\/strong> following a run of four consecutive friendly defeats against <strong>Japan, South Korea, Austria, and Germany<\/strong>, bringing his tenure to an end ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, has defended the decision to retain Otto Addo after Ghana\u2019s failure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13,14,15,28],"class_list":["post-246537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories","tag-black-stars","tag-ghana-black-stars","tag-ghana-football","tag-kurt-okraku","tag-otto-addo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}