{"id":1240780,"date":"2022-11-01T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/otto-addo-is-fully-in-charge-of-black-stars-player-call-up\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:05:50","slug":"otto-addo-is-fully-in-charge-of-black-stars-player-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/otto-addo-is-fully-in-charge-of-black-stars-player-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Addo is fully in-charge of Black Stars player call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"382\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1664353836_148_download-7-696x382.png\"   alt=\"Otto Addo\" title=\"Otto Addo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otto Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Assistant coach of the Black Stars, Mas-Ud Didi Dramani, has insisted that the head coach of the side, Otto Addo, is fully in charge of player call-up to the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Addo earned the praise from the football fraternity\u00a0after steering the country\u2019s qualification to the 2022 World Cup at the expense of Nigeria in March.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, officials of the Ghana Football Association [GFA] have been accused of influencing player call-up into the national team.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, Didi Dramani, a former Asante Kotoko gaffer speaking to Graphic Sports reiterated that Addo is in charge of player call-up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the technical team, headed by the 46-year-old\u00a0is fully in charge of player selection without any interference from the GFA president or any other official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me say that there has never been any interference from the GFA President, Kurt (Simeon-Okraku) since we were appointed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo official has ever imposed any player on us so far. He (Kurt) can only share his opinion like anybody else, but he has never imposed any player on us,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>Otto Addo is expected to name his final 26-man squad for the Mundial on November 14.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vrzjjEcHgpQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If I caught the thief - Paul &amp; Silas Week 40 Episode 5\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrzjjEcHgpQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto Addo Assistant coach of the Black Stars, Mas-Ud Didi Dramani, has insisted that the head coach of the side, Otto Addo, is fully in charge of player call-up to the national team. Addo earned the praise from the football fraternity\u00a0after steering the country\u2019s qualification to the 2022 World Cup at the expense of Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[543,94,14112,929,28347,3250,731,95],"class_list":["post-1240780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-addo","tag-black","tag-callup","tag-fully","tag-incharge","tag-otto","tag-player","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}