Sacked Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah ranks higher than Milovan Rajevac in latest ranking

Published on: 19 September 2014
Sacked Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah ranks higher than Milovan Rajevac in latest ranking
Kwesi Appiah ranks higher than all the coaches who have applied to replace

Sacked Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has been ranked much higher than Milovan Rajevac, the man highly tipped to take over from the Ghanaian as the Black Stars coach, in the latest ranking of national team coaches across the world.

In fact the former Black Stars coach ranks higher than all the coaches who have so far applied to take over from the Ghanaian coach who vacated the position last month.

Appiah, who was sacked last week just 48 hours after leading the Black Stars to a crucial away 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying win over Togo in Lome, was ranked 32 in the latest ranking released by Football Coach World Ranking.

The former Ghana defender was ranked 300 places above Rajevac, the man who has been widely speculated as the favourite to take over the Black Stars coaching position as the Serbian is now ranked 331.

His compatriot Zavisa Milosavlejevic, who previously coached Pakistan and has also applied to coach Ghana, was ranked at 300.

The monthly ranking released by the Institute of Football Coaching Statistics shows that all the coaches who have so far applied to replace Appiah are way below the former Black Stars manager.

However, the ranking of the top fifty coaches is dominated by coaches who coached at the World Cup with the top 15 almost exclusively for coaches who excelled at the World Cup.

World Cup winner Joachim Low of Germany tops the ranking and he is followed by Spain's Vicente Del Bosque in 2nd place while Oscar Tabarez of Uruguay placed 3rd.

The ranking favours coaches who are active in their jobs who those who have been jobless freely tumble down the ranking.

National team Coaches Ranking for September 2014:

1.Joachim Low 2.Del Bosque 3.C.Prandelli 4.Paolo Jorge Gomes Bento 5.Jurgen Klinsmann 6.L Van Gaal 7.Fernando Santos 8.Jose Pekerman 10.Jose Manuel de la Torre 11.Luis Felipe Scolari 12.Jorge Luis Pinto 13.Marc Wilmots 14.Stephen Keshi 15.N Pumpido 16.Reinaldo Rueda 17.Ottmar Hitzfeld 18.Julio Valdes 19.Safet Susic 20.Alberto Zaccheroni 21.D.Deschamps 22.Eric Hamren 23.Alejandro Sabella 24.Fernando Suarez 25.Sergio Apraham 26.Jorge Sampaoli 27.Morten Olsen 28.Fabio Capello 29.R.Hodgson 30.Bob Bradley 31.Cesar Farias 32.James Kwesi Appiah

300.Zavisa Milosavlejevic -  Applicant for Ghana Black Stars job 331.Milovan Rajevac - -  Applicant for Ghana Black Stars job

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