{"id":411754,"date":"2025-10-03T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/10\/03\/agyemang-badu-defends-otto-addo-calls-for-patience-ahead-of-car-comoros-clash\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:52:27","slug":"agyemang-badu-defends-otto-addo-calls-for-patience-ahead-of-car-comoros-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/10\/03\/agyemang-badu-defends-otto-addo-calls-for-patience-ahead-of-car-comoros-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Agyemang Badu defends Otto Addo, calls for patience ahead of CAR, Comoros clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Ghana international Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has urged calm and patience over Black Stars coach Otto Addo\u2019s performance, insisting the statistics do not reflect poor work.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Asempa FM, the U-20 World Cup winner acknowledged that while there is room for improvement, Addo deserves the chance to prove himself in Ghana\u2019s upcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not the one who appointed him, but every work each person is doing, they want to succeed. The coach, too, wants to succeed in his work with the Black Stars,\u201d Badu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the stats show that he has done badly. There is more room for improvement. Let\u2019s wait and play the two matches. There\u2019s more time to deliberate on his future after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Otto Addo has already named a 24-man squad for Ghana\u2019s decisive 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against the Central African Republic and Comoros.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will face Central African Republic at the Stade d\u2019Honneur de Meknes in Morocco on Wednesday, October 8, before hosting Comoros at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday, October 12.<\/p>\n<p>Victory in either game would secure Ghana\u2019s spot at next year\u2019s World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana international Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has urged calm and patience over Black Stars coach Otto Addo\u2019s performance, insisting the statistics do not reflect poor work. Speaking to Asempa FM, the U-20 World Cup winner acknowledged that while there is room for improvement, Addo deserves the chance to prove himself in Ghana\u2019s upcoming fixtures. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Agyemang Badu defends Otto Addo, calls for patience ahead of CAR, Comoros clash - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/10\/03\/agyemang-badu-defends-otto-addo-calls-for-patience-ahead-of-car-comoros-clash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Agyemang Badu defends Otto Addo, calls for patience ahead of CAR, Comoros clash - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Ghana international Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has urged calm and patience over Black Stars coach Otto Addo\u2019s performance, insisting the statistics do not reflect poor work. 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