Hickersberger Still Front Runner

The Ghana Football Association has completed its interviews with three potential bosses of the Black Stars with Austria's Josef Hickersberger still the front runner for the job.

The Austrian was one of three coaches who met a GFA team in Amsterdam on Saturday to try to convince them why they deserve the Ghana job.

And KickOffGhana.com understands that unless the GFA decide to look elsewhere after the latest interviews, then Hickersberger will get the nod after getting the chance to meet Ghana's football bosses.

With Ghana's undoubted quality of players, he has the experience and the knowledge to get the best out of them

The GFA also spoke to a Serbian and former Ghana coach Ralf Zumdick. While Zumdick will be a popular choice, the fact that he has not held down a major job since leaving the Black Stars in 2003 is counting heavily against him after the same body decided Sellas Tetteh, Ghana's assistant coach for five years was not good enough for the job.

Hickersberger coaching record has been ripped into by the Ghanaian media, traditionally the unofficial king makers in the hunt for a coach and that was the issue that dominated the interview session.

Five wins out of twenty seven games in two years in charge of Austria has not impressed a skeptical public even though he once qualified Austria for the world cup in 1990 and has the experience of big tournament experience after his appearance there and in EURO 2008.

A highly placed source told KickOffGhana.com that the Austrian had defended his record in charge of his homeland insisting that had built the side from the scratch and had lost games to world renowned teams in an effort to build them up.

"He told us he could have chose to play soft teams to boost up his record but chose to play countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Italy and Germany," the source told KickOffGhana.com.

"He also told us a coach is mostly as good as the talent available to him and feels that with Ghana's undoubted quality of players, he has the experience and the knowledge to get the best out of them," the source added.

The GFA team is now back in Accra to think through the meeting and decide whether to hand the responsibility of guiding Ghana to a second World Cup.