Underfire Ghana Black Stars head coach Otto Addo has said his football is based on the opponent his team is facing.
According to Otto Addo, who used a culinary analogy to explain his style of football, he adapts to what will hurt his opponent and cannot say his Black Stars team is possession-based.
Speaking to the media ahead of Monday’s encounter with Germany in Stuttgart, Otto Addo stated, “This is my style, I always look at who is coming, it is always different for me. I compare it to eating; if I eat fufu, I use my hand. When I drink soup, I will use a spoon; if I want rice and meat, I use a fork and a knife; it’s just the same as the players.
I look at the opponent and what can harm them the most. It is a flexible style, I can say we are possession-based”.
Also, Otto Addo has said he is unfazed by calls for my dismissal.
“This is the job of a coach. When we lose, people are mainly trying to bring you down. I don’t really read too many things”.
“Even if we win, I’m not too much into social media or reading anything. Whatever people say, it’s normal, especially on an evening like this when the team didn’t play well and we also lost,” he added.
Some Ghanaians reacting to his remarks stated, “This is baseless, every coach has it style of play, before you can be given a project, you need to present your plans and philosophy, if it can suit the project, you can’t go for interview and you’ll be saying this fork and knife thing… whoever advising Otto Addo must stop”.
“A national team player with only a few days of adjustments, always having to tinker and change tactics, instructions, and positioning. Figuring out if they’re playing, many minutes or not can lead to disorganisation.
Sometimes it’s good to keep it simple and consistent”, a netizen added.
One X user added, “The GFA is watching Otto Addo spew nonsense, and yet they keep on pampering him. Otto Addo is a guy who has been sent to a better school, given quality teachers, given extra tutorials at home, given exam papers ahead of time, but still fails. Wabon tu”.
“We are doomed! So we go onto the pitch with no game plan, waiting to see what our opponents will do? Eeei, then by the time we get to know what they’re doing, then we’ve conceded 3 goals”, a netizen added.
Meanwhile, Ralf Rangnick, head coach of Austria, has told Ghanaians not to be too emotional following the Black Stars’ humiliating 5-1 defeat to his side.
According to Ralf Rangnick, Ghanaians should not be too emotional about Otto Addo, as he does not think that with a different coach, the result would have been any different.
Speaking at a post-match interview following his Austrian side’s thrashing of the Black Stars, Ralf Rangnick stated, “Ghana qualified for the World Cup with Otto Addo as manager. So the most important thing is that they qualified.
At least we don’t overrate this game and this result. I remember that we played Turkey two years ago before the Euros. We beat them 6-1 here, but then we played against Turkey again in the round of 16 at the Euros, and we lost 2-1, unfortunately. But luckily for Turkey”.
“So, I wouldn’t rate that too much. Let’s wait and see how they play against Germany on Tuesday, and then it might be a completely different story again. Don’t be so emotional about your coach. Otto is a good one, and I don’t think that with another manager it would have been a different result,” Rangnick added.
Watch the video below:
“When I eat fufu, I use my hand. When I eat soup, I use a spoon. And when I eat rice, I use a fork” – Otto Addo uses culinary analogy to explain that his style of football is based on the opponent pic.twitter.com/FTapOvMBI9
— Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo (@Fentuo_) March 29, 2026