Keshi ranked Africa’s best coach
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has been ranked as the best national team coach in Africa in the latest ranking released by a leading coaching statistics agency for national team coaches.
Keshi continues to top the poll for coaches on the continent, despite Nigeria’s unimpressive start to the 2015 AFCON qualifiers.
Coaching rating agency, Football Coach World Ranking, named the Big Boss in the 14th position with former Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah a distant second in the 32nd position.
The ranking of the top 50 coaches is dominated by managers who coached at the World Cup, with the top 15 almost exclusively for those who excelled at the World Cup with the exception of Spain’s Vicente Del Bosque who is placed second even though his side crashed in the group stage.
World Cup-winning coach, Joachim Low of Germany, tops the ranking with Oscar Tabarez of Uruguay in third position.
TOP TEN
1. Joachim Low
2. Vincente Del Bosque
3. Cesare Prandelli
4. Paolo Jorge Gomes Bento
5. Jurgen Klinsmann
6. Louis Van Gaal
7. Fernando Santos
8. Jose Pekerman
10. Jose Manuel de la Torre
What are the rationale for ranking? Spain coach 3rd despite disappointing WC display and coach Keshi despite lack of technical ineptitude at WC and continuous slump in Eagles’ performance? Ha! I laugh…