[ 2014-08-21 ]

Four European coaches short-listed for Black Stars
Four European coaches short-listed for Black Stars
technical adviser job, committee to decide today


Four European coaches have been shortlisted for
the position for the Black Stars technical adviser
with the decision over the choice to made on
Thursday after a meeting.

Two Danish coaches Flemming Serritslev and Ove
Pedersen as well as Serbian Milovan Rajevac and
German Antoine Hey were selected by the three-man
committee mandated to search for the adviser.

The three-member committee, comprising GFA
vice-president Fred Crentsil (chairman), FA's
technical director, Francis Oti-Akenten and former
FA vice-president, Fred Pappoe, rejected Ben
Koufie for the post.

Koufie, who was proposed by coach Kwesi Apppiah,
was rejected on the grounds the grounds of his age
as the 82-year-old cannot cope with the challenges
of the job.

Already, 82-year-old Koufie, a former Chairman of
the GFA between 2001 and 2005, has expressed his
readiness to work with Appiah if given the
opportunity but age counted against him.

This leaves ex-Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac
as the leading candidate for the post having
coached the Black Stars to success at the 2010
Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup.

Antoine Hey, who is the current technical director
of the Libyan FA, looks to be the closest person
to Rajevac in the African experience as he has
already coached in Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya and
Gabon.

Pedersen spent most of his coaching career in his
native Denmark with the club Midtjylland but his
coaching of several African players at the club as
well as in Qatar will count to his advantage.

Serritslev, 67, is the least experienced in Africa
but has spent time coaching in Iran and Velje in
Denmark.

The move to hire a technical advisor, according to
the GFA, was in compliance with an advice by the
Ministry of Youth and Sports that the technical
team of the Black Stars needed to be
strengthened.

The technical adviser will work with Appiah to
“steer the national team in the right
direction” according to the Ghana Football
Association.

The decision was taken by the GFA after the Black
Stars failure to get past the group stages of the
World Cup in Brazil.

Rajevac is seen as the most successful foreign
coach to have worked in Ghana.

He lead the Black Stars to the final of the 2010
Nations Cup in Angola and later that year to the
World Cup quarter-finals in South Africa.

Source - Ghanasoccer

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