The former GHALCA chairman, Mr Kudjoe Fianoo has spoken ill over the Ghana Football Association‘s to appointment Coach Otto as the senior national team of Ghana manager.
Kudjoe Fianoo, one of Ghana’s veteran football administrator and former member of the Black Stars Management Committee, has launched a scathing critique of the Ghana football Association (GFA), citing the decision to appoint coach Otto Addo was not based on merits and it was an appointment made via “backdoor” process which essentially bypassed established criteria.
Speaking on Kessbaen Sports, Mr Fianoo’s comments suggested that the struggles of the senior national team are nor merely tactical failures in the board room, but the result of systematic governance issues at the top.
According to him, the probe for a Black Stars coach following previous disappointments was supposed to be governed by a strict set of professional criteria. However, he alleges that these protocols were ignored in favor of re-appointing Otto Addo.
“We brought out a criteria to pick a new coach, and Otto Addo was appointed through a backdoor, which shows those running the football don’t have Ghanaians at heart. An opportunity came to fire him when he failed to qualify the team for the AFCON, but we played around.”
Mr Kudjor Fianoo further claimed that at one point during the process, Otto Addo himself was hesitant to take the role. This revelation raises questions about the GFA’s insistence on an candidate who may not have been fully committed or who didn’t necessarily fit the profile the committee had initially drafted.