Ex-Ghana international Joachim Yaw Acheampong looks favourite to take the head coach job at Hearts of Oak next week, Footy-Ghana.com understands.
The Phobians began the search for a new trainer after Serbian Kosta Papic made the position with his resignation this week just 77 days into his second reign.
Papic left the second most successful club in the Ghana Premier League giants and joined South African PSL basement club Black Leopards.
He had taken the Hearts job two games into the 2020/21 season and guided them to 11th in the league with four wins, three drawn games and three defeats before leaving the job.
Now Hearts are keen on appointing a new coach before facing arch-rivals Asante Kotoko on February 28.
“I’m sure by next week we shall have a coach, a team manager and we shall have a goalkeepers’ trainer…
“We are talking with Richard Kingson. At the right time, as I said, in the early part of next week, you will hear of our [technical] team,” board member Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe had told Angel FM.
With a huge clamour for the appointment of a local coach, sources indicate the job is Acheampong’s to lose after former Ghana and Cameroon assistant coach Ibrahim Tanko – the Phobians’ first-choice for the vacant job – turned down the chance.
Yaw Acheampong, 47, has been the head coach for financially-stricken Elmina Sharks since June 2017
He is expected to travel to Accra for negotiations with Hearts officials after guiding Sharks in their GPL match-day 15 home clash with Medeama SC on Sunday.
