Togo Football Federation (FTF)
announced it had received 29
applications for the post of head
coach of the national team. The
body said it had concluded the
assessment of the dozens of forms
and would now submit five names
to the Sports Ministry to decide on
who will be the new manager of the
Sparrow Hawks, who have been
without a coach since Frenchman
Thierry Froger resigned in March.
In Togo, the Sports Ministry has the
final say on the choice of the team’s
technical staff. The FTF only submits
propositions, which a committee at
the ministry verifies, then confirms
or rejects. Reports say two-time
coach of the Hawks, Nigerian-born
Stephen Keshi, alongside current
interim coach Tchanilé Tchakala,
Frenchmen Patrice Neveu and Didier
Six, Serbian Ratomir Dujkovic and
Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez, are all
top favorites.
The FTF is shaping up plans to
reconstruct the national team ahead
of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers,
after it failed to clinch a ticket for the
2012 African Cup of Nations.
The body is also leaving no stone
unturned to lure back the team’s
former captain and top scorer
Emmanuel Adebayor, after he
bowed out last year in the wake of a
gunfire attack on Togo team bus
prior the Angola 2010.
May 31, 2010, 06:30:30 AM