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President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, says he has no regrets over the decision to stick to Otto Addo despite the team's failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).
The Black Stars failed to secure qualification for the continental tournament for the first time in 20 years, with Otto Addo supervising the worst qualification campaign in that period.
Ghana finished bottom in a group which also had Angola, Sudan and Niger, and there were calls for Otto Addo to be sacked, but the GFA backed him to continue after the poor spell.
"I never believed that I had to let the coach go at that time. And we never believed, as an ExCo, that we had to let the coach go at that time. And we stay with that position," he told 3Sports.
"We’ve all done football at various levels, and sometimes there are auxiliary reasons why certain decisions have to be taken or not to be taken. Some of these reasons are not available to a lot of people.
"But I look back, and I’m happy that we took that decision. At the end, we qualified for the Mundial with the same gaffer, and I don’t regret it at all."
Despite qualifying the team to do the 2026 World Cup, Otto Addo was eventually sacked following the team's four-game losing streak against Japan, South Korea, Austria and Germany.
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