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He was appointed to the new coaching staff after head coach Lucien Favre was fired following Dortmund’s 5-1 defeat at the hands of newly promoted Stuttgart on Saturday.
Confirming the news, the official Twitter user of the German club said: Assistant coach Edin Terzic has been appointed as interim coach until the end of the current season. Terzic’s technical team will be accompanied by Sebastian Geppert and Otto Addo “.
Edin Terzic, Otto Addo and Sebastian Geppert will take over until the end of the season amid a tight schedule in which Dortmund will face road trips to Werder Bremen on Tuesday, Union Berlin on Friday and then 2 Bundesliga club Braunschweig in Germany. Cup on December 22.
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Terzic, a youth coach who has also worked as an assistant at West Ham and Besiktas, took over the training session on Sunday afternoon.
“It is very difficult to take this step,” said sports director Michael Zorc. “But we believe that due to the negative developments in recent times, action is necessary.”
After just one point from their last three games against Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, Dortmund have dropped to fifth place in the Bundesliga and face a fight to return to the Champions League next season.
With Favre, Dortmund routinely fell short when they challenged Bayern in the Bundesliga. The team blew a nine-point lead in 2018-19 and were then runners-up again last season, 13 points behind Bayern after another poor result.
Dortmund was only able to win the less important German Super Cup, traditionally a curtain-opening ceremony of the season, with Favre in 2019.
However, Dortmund has run out of patience after 11 games of the new campaign, and decided to fire Favre and appoint assistant manager Edin Terzic as interim boss until the end of the current season.
Terzic has been appointed together with Otto Addo for the club to win again.
The move is further testament to how respected Otto Addo is at the club.
Addo, who is a former player for the Yellows and Blacks, was announced as the team’s ‘talent coach’ last year.
The role that was created for Addo is to serve as a liaison between the youth and senior teams.
He is responsible for helping to promote Borussia Dortmund’s most talented youngsters to the senior squad and is in charge of their supervision and further training.
In December 2013, Addo was appointed Head Scout for the Ghana National Soccer Team and ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, succeeding Ibrahim Tanko after the 2012 African Cup of Nations and the African Cup African of Nations 2013.
In April 2019, it was announced that Addo would be working for former club Borussia Dortmund as a ‘talent coach’, having previously held a similar position at Borussia Mönchengladbach since 2017.
The former Black Star player was with the club between 1999 and 2005, made 98 Bundesliga appearances (16 goals) and won the Bundesliga title in 2002 during his time with Dortmund.
Born in Germany, Addo represented Ghana at the World Cup in 2006, making two appearances at the event as the Black Stars reached the knockout stages.
