The budding tactical genius at Right to Dream

By Ameenu Shardow

At age 23, Isaac Addo has won two international titles with the U-11’s of the Right to Dream Academy and he is still raring to go.

In an era where the focus is solely on producing talents to take over the future reigns of our various national teams, the area of coaching young ones to go with this intended plan has been relegated to the back ground but this has not escaped the Right to Dream Academy.

Under the visionary leadership skills of RTD founder, Tom Vernon, young Addo is gradually rising through the ranks on his way to becoming yet another success story of this academy on the sidelines.

“I used to play in the Premier League but was not making any headway there so Tom adviced I go into coaching which I obliged and I have since never regretted,” he told GHANAsoccernet.com.

“My immediate aim is to learn through the ranks to become the senior coach here and then eventually to become one of the top coaches in the world.”

Addo has been supported to several coaching clinics in Europe at Manchester City and in Norway where he won the MTG title earlier this year with the U-11’s but Right to Dream intends even doing more to equip their ‘Junior Mourinho’ in realizing his dreams.

“He was a good player then but I realized he would be better at coaching so we pushed him to that direction and so far he is making it,” RTD founder Tom Vernon said.

“He is in his twenty’s and is always working with the kids so by the time he turns thirty and have completed his coaching badges he would have had a better understanding of the game to become a top notch coach who will compete with the older ones.”

Right to Dream intends training young Ghanian professionals in the area of coaching, sports science and management to gradually take over from the expatriates currently working at the academy in their bid to make it a fully-run Ghanaian academy in future.