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World Cup
quarter-finalists Ghana hopes to have a new coach in place by the
year-end, having interviewed three candidates to replace Serbian
Milovan Rajevac, who left in September for a lucrative club job in
Saudi Arabia.

“The process is
moving along swiftly and we hope to be able to announce something by
the end of the month,” Ghana Football Association president Kwesi
Nyantakyi told Reuters in Cairo on Tuesday.

Former Portugal
manager Humberto Coelho, Serbian Goran Stevanovic and local Herbert
Addo are left in the running. Former World Cup winner Marcel Desailly,
the French international born in Ghana, took himself off a shortlist of
candidates that Ghana announced last month, saying he had no official
contact about the job.

Coelho, who has
also previously coached Morocco, South Korea and Tunisia, met Ghana
officials last week and told the Portuguese news agency Lusa he had
fruitful discussions.

“It would be a challenge to take up the job,” he said.

Rajevac was in
Cairo on Monday to receive an award as Africa’s Coach of the Year,
after taking Ghana to the last eight of the World Cup in South Africa
and the final of the African Nations Cup in Angola earlier in the year.
He is now coaching at Al Ahli Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.