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Many footballers are not sure of their calling as soon as they grasp up their boots and Otto Addo was no completely different.

The German-born Ghanaian worldwide had loved a stellar profession in Germany, the spotlight coming within the 2001/02 season when he gained the Bundesliga title with Borussia Dortmund.

Addo, who represented Ghana on the 2006 World Cup and is now the nation’s head coach at Qatar 2022, finally completed his profession at his hometown membership of Hamburg and it was there that he started to get a way of what life after enjoying may be.

In addition to main the Ghanaian nationwide crew, the 47-year-old additionally works as a participant improvement coach at Dortmund the place he helps nurture younger expertise each tactically and personally.

It’s a job that Addo says is “tough to clarify in just a few sentences.”

He explains there are three predominant pillars – particular person video evaluation, through which he gives detailed suggestions of every coaching session; transformation on the pitch, which helps gamers make the leap from youth crew to first crew; and lastly, however maybe most significantly, steerage off the sphere.

“No less than a couple of times a month, I attempt to meet my younger expertise group,” he advised CNN Sport in 2021. “The younger gamers from the primary crew after which one of the best three or 4 gamers from the under-23s, under-19s and under-17s.

“Typically, we meet collectively and we eat one thing. We simply speak about private stuff, you already know, if I’ve a sense that any participant has an issue, I attempt to meet him privately. I’m at all times there for them in the event that they wish to speak – and a few want it extra, some much less.

“We speak about all the pieces: their personal life as a result of I’m actually certain that the higher the relationships, the higher I can coach them after which they gained’t take criticism from me as badly. They need to take it as assist. I’m actually eager on constructing a very good relationship between me and the younger gamers.”

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