Nana Otto Addo (born 9 June 1975) is a German-born Ghanaian
football manager
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and former player. He was recently the manager of the
Ghana national football team, and works as a talent coach for
Borussia Dortmund
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.
Early life
Addo was born on 9 June 1975 in
Hamburg
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West Germany
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to Ghanaian parents.
Club career
VfL 93 Hamburg
Addo started his career in 1991 in Hamburg playing for Hamburger SV. In 1993 he left
Bramfelder SV after playing there for a year to join fellow Hamburg side
VfL 93 Hamburg
VfL 93 Hamburg is a German association football club from the city of Hamburg.
The club's greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier three Regionalliga Nord, where it played for three seasons between 1994 and 1998.
History
Formed ...
in 1993 where he played 80 league matches and scored 4 goals from 1993 to 1996.
Hannover 96
Addo moved to
Hannover 96 in the ''Regionalliga Nord'' (third German league) in 1996.
He made a big impression in a squad that featured stars-to-be
Gerald Asamoah
Gerald Asamoah (; born 3 October 1978) is a German football manager and former professional player who works as the first-team manager of Schalke 04.
During his playing career, Asamoah played as a forward, and he was mainly known for his pace, ...
and
Fabian Ernst
Fabian Ernst (; born 30 May 1979) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was regarded as a two-way player who can stop the opposition and start attacks with his passing from central midfield.
Club career
Bo ...
. That team ripped through the season scoring more than 100 goals but succumbed to
Energie Cottbus
FC Energie Cottbus ( Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...
in the 1997 promotion playoffs.
In 1998, Hannover finally promoted to the
2. Bundesliga
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. In his first season, he scored seven goals in 30 games and was acknowledged as one of the elite players of the league.
Borussia Dortmund
Addo transferred to
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men's professional fo ...
in 1999 and played more than 75 times for the team, becoming
Bundesliga
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champion in
2002. However, he was also hampered by great injury troubles, as he tore his
cruciate ligament
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s three times in this time, the first coming after a
German Cup
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match against
SC Freiburg
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on 15 July 2001. The player had an MRI scan which showed he had torn knee ligaments and underwent surgery on his right knee on 22 July at the
Vail
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,
Colorado
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clinic of world-renowned knee specialist surgeon
Dr. Richard Steadman. He healed completely after that, and came back to play the
2002 UEFA Cup Final for Dortmund against
Feyenoord Rotterdam on 8 May 2002, which Dortmund lost 3–2 at the
Feijenoord Stadion
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in
Rotterdam
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. On 7 September 2002, Addo tore right knee ligaments for the second time, in a
2004 African Cup of Nations
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qualifier versus
Uganda
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in
Kampala
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.
On 24 September 2003, Addo's career was under threat after he re-injured his troublesome right knee for the third time in Dortmund's 2–1
UEFA Cup
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victory over
Austria Wien. He started the match, but was replaced after just 38 minutes.
After sitting out the whole of 2004, Addo returned to action as a substitute in Dortmund's 1–1 league home draw with
Borussia Mönchengladbach in the last weekend of January 2005.
Mainz 05
At the beginning of the 2005–06 season he transferred to
1. FSV Mainz 05, for whom he did not make an initial impact. However, he played well enough to earn a nomination for the Ghanaian squad who appeared at the
2006 World Cup
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.
Hamburger SV
On 9 August 2007, Addo signed a three-year contract with hometown
Hamburger SV
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, initially alternating with the reserves and the first team. While at Hamburg, Addo revealed his Hamburger SV goals in an interview with HSVLIVE, also addressing other topics. In 2008, he announced his retirement from playing football at the age of 38.
International career
Although born in Germany, Addo played for the
Ghana national team for seven years commencing 1999, his debut being a 5–0 rout of
Eritrea on 28 February 1999, and he achieved international prominence when he led the nation in the
2000 African Cup of Nations
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. He started for Ghana as right
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
in the
2006 FIFA World Cup game against the
Czech Republic
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on 17 June 2006 at the
RheinEnergieStadion in
Cologne
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, which Ghana won 2–0. In 2006 he played in Ghana's
2–1 win over the
United States
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at the
Frankenstadion
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in
Nuremberg
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.
Style of play
Addo was strong in one-on-one situations, physical, creative, and versatile enough to play on both wings, on the inside and also in the central position, although his main skill was his ability to dribble the ball.
Coaching career
Addo started his coaching career with his former club Hamburger SV in 2009, in the process serving as a youth team coach and an assistant manager till 2015.
In December 2013, Addo was appointed as the head
scout of the
Ghana national football team and prior to the
2014 FIFA World Cup and
2015 Africa Cup of Nations
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, succeeding
Ibrahim Tanko
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following the
2012 Africa Cup of Nations and
2013 Africa Cup of Nations
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.
Borussia Dortmund
In April 2019, it was announced that Addo would work for former club
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men's professional fo ...
as a 'talent coach', having previously held a similar role at
Borussia Mönchengladbach since 2017. In December 2020, he was promoted to serve as first team assistant coach to
Edin Terzić who had been promoted to interim head coach, following the sacking of head coach
Lucien Favre
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.
He won his first trophy as a coach after Dortmund defeated
RB Leipzig
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in the finals of the
2020–21 DFB-Pokal
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. Following the assignment of
Terzić as technical director and appointment of
Marco Rose as the new head coach, Addo resumed his work as a talent coach.
Ghana
On 25 September 2021, the
Ghana Football Association
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announced that they had appointed Addo as one of two deputies for the new Ghana coach
Milovan Rajevac
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Playing career
Born in Čajetina, Rajevac ...
. On 9 February 2022, the Ghana Football Association announced that they had appointed Addo as the interim coach for the
Ghana national football team ahead of the team's
2022 FIFA World Cup final play-off matches against
Nigeria
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. On 29 March 2022, he qualified Ghana (on away goals) to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, after drawing 1–1 against the Super Eagles of Nigeria. The Black Stars of Ghana had earlier drawn 0–0 against the Super Eagles on 25 March.
In May 2022, Addo was appointed as the head coach until the end of December 2022 alongside maintaining
Chris Hughton
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After making his professional debut aged 20, Hughton spen ...
as technical advisor and
George Boateng and
Mas-Ud Didi Dramani as assistant coaches, the same set-up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup final play-off matches against Nigeria. Addo won his first match as manager on 1 June after leading Ghana to a 3–0 victory over
Madagascar
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in an
2023 AFCON qualifiers.
At the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament, Ghana went on to lose their first match against
Portugal
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by 3–2, however they won their second group game against
South Korea
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by 3–2. Addo became the first Ghanaian to play for and coach the Ghana national team at the FIFA World Cup. That victory also made Addo the first Ghanaian coach to win a match at the FIFA World Cup. Five days later, Ghana lost to
Uruguay
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and were eliminated from the tournament at the group stages. Prior to the start of the World Cup, Addo had hinted that he would be leaving after the world cup regardless of the outcome. Following their last group match, Addo resigned as the head coach of Ghana and would focus on his other role as a talent coach at Borussia Dortmund.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Borussia Dortmund
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Bundesliga
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:
2001–02
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UEFA Cup
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runner-up:
2001–02
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DFB-Ligapokal
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runner-up:
2003
References
External links
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Otto Addoon Borussia Dortmund website
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1975 births
Living people
German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent
Citizens of Ghana through descent
Ghanaian footballers
German footballers
Footballers from Hamburg
Association football midfielders
Ghana international footballers
2000 African Cup of Nations players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
VfL 93 Hamburg players
Hannover 96 players
Borussia Dortmund players
Borussia Dortmund II players
1. FSV Mainz 05 players
Hamburger SV players
Hamburger SV II players
Ghanaian football managers
Hamburger SV non-playing staff
Ghana national football team managers
FC Nordsjælland non-playing staff
Borussia Mönchengladbach non-playing staff
Borussia Dortmund non-playing staff
Ghanaian expatriate football managers
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Expatriate football managers in Denmark
2022 FIFA World Cup managers