Search for national football coach

The speculation has started; the rumour mill is running at full throttle and the applications have started flying in.

For good measure, the GFA has put in place a committee and typically some coaches have already started putting in their applications to be given the opportunity to handle the national team, Black Stars, to the next level of world football.

Welcome to the cumbersome search for a national football coach. With so much at stake and a nation' pride and well-being so intricately linked to how well the national football team does, the search for the man who will make all the major decisions in terms of playing personnel is sure to capture our imagination for the two months that GFA says it will last and dominate the sporting headlines.

And for every journalists, it is the dream period. In these times, you barely go running after the information. Agents desperate to shoot their wards into the jobs will drop you CV's with well written lines.

If you don't do what a good journalist must do, you will end up duping your readers too. And the days of speculation and rumours over who is favourite and who is in poll position plus how much money they are asking for makes this an intriguing story worth following.

Already, a country in love with her football and feeling like the best football nation in the world, has started the talking about a new coach. The Graphic Sports led the chase with its Tuesday story on how another Serbian had launched an audacious bid for the Stars job.

A certain Vladimir Petrovic found his way unto the front pages of the leading sports newspaper here and declared that ?as a proven winner and leader on and off the field of play, he is the natural choice for Ghana.?

That proven track record though is one short on the qualities you would want a national coach to have. Like Ratomir Dujkovic, he says he was an assistant coach when Red Stars won the European Cup in that morbid final against Abedi Pele's Marseille in 1991.

In an intriguing line, the Graphic Sports writes that Petrovic is favoured for coaching jobs more than Dujkovic. Really? So maybe by implication we should favour him too?