Otto Addo has been named as caretaker coach of the Ghana senior national team until the end of March.
The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) took the decision at a meeting held in Accra on Wednesday, February 9.
The 46-year-old will be leading a three-man team for next month’s crucial doubleheader against Nigeria in the 2022 Fifa World Cup playoffs.
He is joined by George Boateng and Mas-ud Didi Dramani who have been co-opted from the U-23s of English side Aston Villa and Ghana’s Right to Dream Academy for the two upcoming games.
Addo recently worked as an assistant coach under Serbian Milovan Rajevac who was sacked last month after leading the Black Stars to their worst Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) outing at Cameroon 2021.
The former Ghana international is currently the Assistant Coach of German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. He boasts of 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.
He also previously worked as a scout for the Black Stars prior to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil and the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.
Also, former Newcastle United and Brighton and Hove Albion manager Chris Hughton has been appointed as Technical Advisor to the newly constituted Black Stars Technical team led by Otto Addo.
“The 63-year-old will provide Technical advice to the three-man team for next month’s Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 play-off match against Nigeria,” announced the GFA.
The Black Stars are scheduled to host the Super Eagles in the World Cup playoffs first-leg at Cape Coast Stadium on March 24. The second leg comes off at M.K.O Abiola Stadium on March 27.
