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19.09.2014 Sports News

Nigeria boss Keshi ranked Africa's best coach, ex-Ghana trainer Appiah is second

By ghanasoccernet.com
Nigeria boss Keshi ranked Africa's best coach, ex-Ghana trainer Appiah is second
19.09.2014 LISTEN

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has been ranked as the best national team in Africa with the sacked Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah placing second on the continent, in the latest ranking released by a leading coaching statistics agency.

Keshi continue to top the poll for coaches on the continent while Appiah leads the pack who are chasing the Nigeria coach as the best in Africa.

Coaching rating agency, Football Coach World Ranking, named the former Black Stars coach in the 32nd position while Keshi is ranked in the 14th position.

This means Appiah has improved by ten places in the ranking as he previously occupied the 42nd position in the last ranking in April while Keshi went up by nine places from his 23rd position in the previous global ranking.  

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.

Even though he has been sacked by Ghana, Appiah is Africa's second best

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.

Click here to see the full ranking of National team Coaches 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

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