The Ghana Football Association has shortlisted nine coaches from the 106 applicants for the vacant national team coaching job, Ghanasoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.
Some local coaches have been named among the list, according to Ghanasoccernet sources.
Local coaches Herbert Addo and Marcel Desailly as well as Milovan Rajevac have been reported by Asempa FM to be part of the nine selected.
The Ghana FA will cut down the number to five next week after due diligence has been done and that will make-up the final list.
"The Executive Committee has set a 15 December deadline to find a new coach and after reducing the number to five, we will then conduct the interview and settle on the new coach," Ghana FA spokesperson Randy Abbey told Ghanasoccernet.com
The Ghana FA has already stated that there are no favourites for the coaching job and
Highly-rated coaches like 2002 World Cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, Juande Ramos and Lucien Favre were all reported to have applied for one of the attractive national team job's in the world.
Ghana enthralled football fans on the planet with an impressive showcase to reach the quarter-final at the last World Cup in South Africa.
The Black Stars have been without a coach since Serbian Milovan Rajevac departed to join Saudi club side Ah Ahli Jeddah.