The nine - the senior national team the Black Stars has short listed three coaches out of the fifty four applicants for the Black Stars job.

A statement from GFA general secretary Kofi Nsiah named the shortlisted applicants as Jones Attuquayefio, Phillipe Troussier and Claude Le Roy.

Mr Nsiah told the FA's official website - www.ghanafa.org that the timeline given for the appointment of a new coach was still on course but did not mention the next stage in the process.

Attuquayefio is famous in Ghana for leading Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African champions league win and then the 2004 Caf Confederations Cup in addition to several league titles.

On the international scene he has handled Ghana at the youth level and the Black Stars in the best, his best performance in an international job came when he led Benin to their first Nations Cup in 2004.

Troussier, a Frenchman nicknamed the white witch doctor made his name by moulding ASEC Mimosa into an African club force before going on to coach the Ivory Coast National team, Nigeria, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Morocco.

He has also handled the Japan and Olympique Marseille.

His compatriot Claude Le Roy?s finest moment came in 1988 when he led Cameroon to the African Nations Cup title before returning to coach them at the 1998 World Cup in his homeland.

He has also coached Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ghana?s coaching position became vacant after Serbian Ratomir Dujkovic resigned following a second round finish at the 2006 world cup in Germany.