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

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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