The Ghana soccer coach, former soccer player Otto Addo, rejected this Sunday any pressure in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, saying that the real pressure is in the day to day, in how to have to eat.
“There’s no pressure. It’s a privilege to sit here and coach Ghana. That’s not pressure. The pressure is thinking about eating something the next day. It’s a different kind of pressure. We’ve already shown that we can compete on a level playing field.” , without having players with so much experience. We hope to play a good game”, said Otto Addo, in advance of Monday’s game with South Korea.
Ghana is part of Portugal’s group in the 2022 World Cup, with whom they lost in their debut, 3-2, and faces South Korea, led by Paulo Bento, in the round of 16, while the Portuguese play against Uruguay, which they tied with 0 in the end. First match -0 with the South Koreans.
Looking ahead to the second round of Group H, the Ghanaian coach wanted to put the importance of things into perspective, even with regard to the youth of his team, the youngest in the competition, with an average age of 24 years.
“It has nothing to do with more or less young players. It has to do with good or less good players. They all want to play, have a good match and show their responsibilities. I know there are critics because we make mistakes. We have to focus on correcting the negative aspects and playing a good game”, he justified.
Addo avoided commenting again on the penalty suffered against Portugal, when he complained, after the game, that “it wasn’t” and questioned whether it was scored because it was Cristiano Ronaldo.
On this occasion, the Ghanaian coach recalled that he was not sanctioned by FIFA, but justified that, after the defeat, his “emotions were on the surface”.
The conference this Sunday served, however, for the coach to ask why FIFA only assigns five places for the World Cup to the teams from that continent, remembering that there are 55 countries that deserve more places.
“Never in the history of FIFA have we been the same. Five places… if we had 12 places like Europe, the probability of going further would be greater. It’s my opinion, it’s unfair,” the coach stressed.
The situation in group H, led by Portugal with three points, remains open at the start of the second round, with chances of qualifying for everyone.
“There is a lot to improve. The most important thing for us is not who our star is, the most important thing is to go to the next stage. That is our priority. What happened with Portugal is in the past, our attention is on the Republic of South Korea,” he added.
South Korea and Ghana will meet on Monday at 4:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. in Lisbon), at the Education City Stadium, while Portugal and Uruguay will do so at 10:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. hours) at the Lusail Stadium.
Source: TSF
