Kickoff (Cape Town)
12 August 2008
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) will name unknown Serbian Milovan Rajevac as the new coach of the Black Stars after a long search that lasted for more than three months.
Rajevac's name will officially be made public by the GFA on Tuesday evening before the Serbian takes charge of his first game of the Black Stars on August 20 against Tanzania in an international friendly.
It will be the beginning of a two-year deal that will run until the 2010 World Cup. He will earn US$45 000 a month, becoming the highest paid coach in the history of Ghana football.
The choice of the 54-year old Rajevac ends a long search that the GFA said will land Ghana a world-class coach capable of taking the Black Stars to a second World Cup in South Africa in 2010.
In the end though, the Ghana Football Association's choice is hardly known outside Serbia, where he turned FK Borac from relegation strugglers into Uefa Cup contenders in the Serbian top flight.
He will be the third Serbian to take charge of the Black Stars in the last six years after spells by Milan Zivadinovic and Ratomir Dujkovic, who guided the Black Stars to their first ever world cup appearance in 2006.
The GFA are sure to come under pressure though for the choice they have made given that the profile of the new man does not fit the world class manager they said they were looking for.
Yet with Ghana's World Cup qualifier against Libya in September drawing close, the GFA was forced to act after several botched attempts to get a coach. Many of those attempts had fallen through because of the asking price of the coaches.
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