{"id":1240898,"date":"2022-11-01T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/gfa-boss-kurt-okraku-defends-otto-addo-over\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:38:55","slug":"gfa-boss-kurt-okraku-defends-otto-addo-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/gfa-boss-kurt-okraku-defends-otto-addo-over\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA boss Kurt Okraku defends Otto Addo over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FO9GyE6XMAQOQs2.jpg\"   alt=\"Otto Addo\" title=\"Otto Addo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otto Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], Kurt Okraku, has hit back at critics of Black Stars head coach, Otto Addo.<\/p>\n<p>Addo, 46, who masterminded Ghana\u2019s qualification to the Mundial has come under pressure for accepting Black Stars coaching role as a part-time job.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okraku, speaking at a pre-world cup activity dubbed \u2018Dinner with the Legends,\u2019 urged Ghanaians to have a positive mentality ahead of Qatar 2022 and support the Borussia Dortmund assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Let\u2019s go back to our two battles against Nigeria,\u201d he said. The country stood up in support of a common foe. We were victors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust look at where our Black Stars have come from. It got to a point, we didn\u2019t have quality. Gradually over time, you see a good team shaping up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is that time that all of us must throw our weight behind the team. Who was the coach that qualified Ghana for the world cup recently? Is it not Otto? Was he a part-time or full-time coach? Let\u2019s be positive,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Otto Addo is expected to lead Ghana in her first Qatar 2022 match against Portugal on November 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will open camp for the global showpiece on November 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 22nd edition of the Mundial has been scheduled to kick off from November 20 to December 18.<\/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=\"vmE-8_bOSKE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We tested positive - Paul &amp; Silas Week 40 Episode 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmE-8_bOSKE?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 President of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], Kurt Okraku, has hit back at critics of Black Stars head coach, Otto Addo. Addo, 46, who masterminded Ghana\u2019s qualification to the Mundial has come under pressure for accepting Black Stars coaching role as a part-time job. Mr Okraku, speaking at a pre-world cup activity dubbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[543,566,747,1615,1603,2557,3250],"class_list":["post-1240898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-addo","tag-boss","tag-defends","tag-gfa","tag-kurt","tag-okraku","tag-otto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240898","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=1240898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}