Kwesi Appiah beats Milovan Rajevac in latest coaching 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