Former Nigeria’s Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has been told to look elsewhere for a new job by the Ghanaian Football Association.
Few days ago, Keshi indicated his interest to coach the Black Stars of Ghana.
But in a swift reaction to the report on Monday morning, the Vice President of the Ghana FA, Fred Crenstil, informed that the application window for the job is shut.
“Unfortunately, we are not considering any other names and so Stephen Keshi – who we respect a lot – will not be able to make it,” Crenstil told supersport.com.
The GFA Vice President added: “We opened a window for applications and it’s been closed for sometime now. We’ve even shortlisted and interviewed three coaches and we are in the last stages of sending a report to the FA Executive Committee.”
It was gathered that the three shortlisted coaches for the vacant coaching position in Ghana are Swiss coach Michel Pont, Spanish gaffer Juan Ignacio Martinez and former Chelsea man Avram.
Keshi was relieved of his job as the head coach of the Nigerian national team after he led the Eagles to 3-1 victory against Sudan at the Abuja National Stadium on 15 October.
Prior to his sack, the former Togo and Mali national teams coach had boasted that at least three African teams were waiting to hire him if he was sacked by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.
More than 10 days since Keshi’s sack, the football world is still waiting to see which country would hire the ‘Big Bo