It’s not that coach Otto Addo isn’t fit to coach the increasingly poorly performing Black Stars especially when there’s evidence that under this administration, the team has been mismanaged. They’ve been fretting to fix it.
Otto Addo qualifies looking at some of the flawed choices the GFA made and the self-inflected, artificial problems they created for some senior national team coaches from 2019. My argument has been that, the GFA raised the bar in terms of qualifications of the next coach.
The media or the Ghanaian public had no hand in that. If they however lowered that threshold for whatever reason, so be it. This happens in leadership or governance at times. But, let no one pretend that we didn’t see or read what they put out regarding the credentials the next Black Stars coach should have.
If they backtracked or there was a reversal because their initial, unrealistic, even over enthusiastic judgement didn’t allow them to see that, the benchmarks they set was way too lofty, it’s appropriate they humbly admit that instead of pretending that those asking questions don’t know what they are saying. The candour to admit certain things without being hurt is a mark of good leadership.
I do not fault everything the GFA does. Deep within their hearts, those who erroneously claim I don’t like the Kurt Okraku-led administration know that, I’m consistent in giving due praise and constructive criticism without failure except that this GFA reluctantly accepts the fairest of criticism without a fight from their blind loyalists.
Perhaps they can run club football anyhow (even that, we commend them where necessary like Dreams FC in Africa) but when it comes to their management of our national teams, as long as our taxes fund those teams, we’ll have a say on what they do and how they do it.
