With Africa having its most successful FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Ghana's head coach at the tournament has now made a massive claim regarding African coaches.
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Morocco made history in the Middle East when they managed to become the first African nation in the World Cup's 92 years of existence to make it to the competition's semi-final stage.
While Walid Regragui and his charges immortalised themselves in football's history books, the other CAF representatives at the global showpiece also gave a good account of themselves.
For the first time, all five African nations that competed at the tournament were able to secure a win as they ended with an average group-stage points total of 4.8 among themselves, a record for the continent in the competition.
This was a World Cup of firsts as the edition in the Middle East also marked the first tournament in which all the African teams that qualified were coached by tacticians of the same nationality.
Senegal, Morocco, Cameroon, Tunisia and Ghana were all led by individuals from those respective nations, and now the man who led the Black Stars in the Gulf has insisted that more indigenous coaches should be produced by African football associations.
"I think you could see the impact of the (African) coaches being connected to the country. Also, tactically the teams were well prepared," Addo told Forbes.
"It (sends) the message to create, not only your own players, but taking the next step to create your own coaches. And also for the federations to believe in the coaches.
"This hopefully inspires other coaches in Africa to believe in themselves, to grow and maybe to get a chance to represent their country."
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The German-born Ghanaian has since stepped down from his role as head coach of the four-time Africa Cup of Nations winners as he looks to reprise his role as assistant to Edin Terzic at Borussia Dortmund.
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