Former Tema Youth FC player Joseph Paintsil says coach Otto Addo treated him unfairly for not taking him to the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar.
He stated that the coach gave him no valid reasons for not including him in the final 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar where Ghana got eliminated at the group stages.
According to Paintsil, the then Ghana boss told him during a phone conversation that he wasn’t among his best attackers for the World Cup and football isn’t all about scoring goals and providing assists.
“His [Otto Addo’s] decision was unfair. He gave me no valid reason to explain my absence. I told him the same thing during a phone conversation,” Paintsil told Belang van Limburg
“He told me that there were players ahead of me in the hierarchy. Among them, there were guys who, like me, play in the Jupiler Pro League,”
“They couldn’t present the same stats, but Addo said football isn’t all about goals and assists.”
Paintsil has scored 7 goals and also delivered eight assists in his 14 caps in all competitions so far this season.
