{"id":1266686,"date":"2022-12-17T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/ex-chelsea-boss-five-others-shortlisted-for-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:15:11","slug":"ex-chelsea-boss-five-others-shortlisted-for-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/ex-chelsea-boss-five-others-shortlisted-for-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Chelsea boss, five others shortlisted for Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"603\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-16-121950.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2022-12-16 121950\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association [GFA] has held talks with six top-class coaches to take over the Black Stars as new head coach, <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong> Sports can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are currently without a substantive head coach following the resignation of Otto Addo.<\/p>\n<p>The Borussia Dortmund talent coach left his role after the country\u2019s early exit from the ongoing 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Ghana finished at the bottom of Group H with just three points.<\/p>\n<p>With the GFA yet to name a new trainer, the leadership of the country\u2019s football governing body has held talks with six coaches to replace Addo, 47.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea and PSG coach, Thomas Tuchel, who led the Premier League side to win the Champions League has been named among the coaches to take over the job.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hughton, who is a former Newcastle United, Norwich and Brighton &#038; Hove Albion boss, who served as a technical advisor under Otto Addo, has also been named among the coaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Boateng, who is a former Aston Villa U-23 coach, is part of the six coaches likely to take over the vacant job.<\/p>\n<p>Boateng served as the first assistant coach during the reign of Otto Addo.<\/p>\n<p>Former Portugal coach, Paulo Bento, who led South Korea to the 2022 World Cup, has been shortlisted for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Dragan Stojkovi\u0107, who is the\u00a0current\u00a0manager\u00a0of the\u00a0Serbia national team, is also part of the list.\u00a0Stojkovi\u0107 was a long-time captain of the\u00a0Yugoslavia national team\u00a0and\u00a0Red Star Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p>To conclude the list, Belgian manager,\u00a0Tom Saintfiet, has also been shortlisted for the job. He was appointed as manager of the Gambian national team in July 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On 25 March 2021, Saintfiet made history with the Gambia by qualifying the country for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time with a 1\u20130 victory over Angola in\u00a0Bakau\u00a0while also finishing as the top team in\u00a0Group D.<\/p>\n<p>The GFA is expected to announce a new trainer for the Black Stars before the end of January before the Black Stars assemble for the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in March.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will take on Angola in a doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mFtEc5qML64\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Auditor-General\u2019s way of reporting brings fear to public \u2013 PAC Vice Chairman (16-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mFtEc5qML64?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Football Association [GFA] has held talks with six top-class coaches to take over the Black Stars as new head coach, Asempa FM Sports can confirm. The Black Stars are currently without a substantive head coach following the resignation of Otto Addo. The Borussia Dortmund talent coach left his role after the country\u2019s early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,566,3798,10930,95],"class_list":["post-1266686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-boss","tag-exchelsea","tag-shortlisted","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}