GFA settles on white coach as new Technical Director

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is set to unveil a foreigner as the new technical director for Ghana Football next month.

A source close to the GFA hinted Graphic Sports that the FA had settled on a European who would be unveiled to the public in August.

The GFA  technical director position became vacant following the exit of Coach Francis Oti Akenten in March this year. His tenure was not renewed by the FA when he was due for retirement.

Following that development, FIFA required the FA to fill that vacuum immediately, which led to the composition of a Selection Committee, headed by president Kurt Okraku, to search for Mr Akenten's replacement.

Six candidates were eventually shortlisted out of a host of local and foreign coaches who applied for the job and the source told Graphic Sports that the committee finally settled on somebody from Western Europe.  

The source, however, preferred to keep the name of the soon-to-be-outdoored applicant under wraps, but only indicated that he was a white man who would be unveiled officially  in August.

“I can tell you that the person is from Western Europe and I'm not going to mention his name. All I can tell you is that the FA will announce its decision in August”, the source stated.