Black Stars head coach, Otto Addo, has acknowledged that evaluating his present group to the one he led on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is difficult.
Addo, who beforehand coached at Borussia Dortmund, famous that whereas some gamers from the earlier squad stay, roughly half of the present group is new.
In a FIFA interview, Addo was requested to check his present group to the Qatar squad, and he replied,
It’s very troublesome to check the 2 squads. A lot of the gamers went to the World Cup already, however perhaps half the group didn’t. So it’s a unique squad. I feel we had the youngest squad on the World Cup, however now it’s even youthful, and we are attempting to construct as much as the following World Cup, so it was very exhausting to make these varieties of choices, however it might have been even tougher subsequent 12 months attempting to place new gamers in place.
We’ve carried out it proper from the beginning so we are able to construct up over the two-year interval. Now we have to qualify first and that’s going to be troublesome, however I need to take the chance to offer them this expertise of qualifying for the World Cup. However we now have to do our personal work first and there’s going to be powerful matches, and we’ll additionally need to qualify for the AFCON. We had been behind, however now we’re in a greater place, he added.
In his first two aggressive matches in March, Otto Addo’s Black Stars secured victories over the Central African Republic and Mali, transferring them degree on factors with Comoros.
Nevertheless, Addo acknowledges that the group nonetheless has important room for enchancment.
I feel there’s a lot to enhance, we now have quite a lot of younger guys that have to get expertise. It’s not akin to the squad we had in 2014 for instance, once we had gamers like Michael Essien, Asamoah Gyan, Sulley Muntari, Kwadwo Asamoah, they had been regulars at Champions League degree for large golf equipment like Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Actual Madrid.
“This squad can get there, however they’re not there but and I’m attempting to assist them to get there. They’ve time as a result of they’re nonetheless younger, so I’m hoping they are going to develop to get to that stage and as soon as we get there, we’ll be on a unique degree.