German trainer Gernot Rohr has been named coach of the Burkina Faso national football team, a report on the CAF website said on Wednesday.
Rohr replaces Belgian Paul Put, who parted ways with “Les Etalons’’ after the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) held in Equatorial Guinea in January.
At the competition, the Burkinabes who were losing finalists at the previous edition in South Africa crashed out at the group phase.
The report quoted a statement by the Federation Burkinabe de Football (FBF) released on Tuesday night as announcing the new appointment.
It said the federation settled on the 61-year old as the best option.
Before this, the FBF had named a three-man shortlist which had Rohr, Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi and Milovan Rajevac of Serbia from 38 applications received for the vacant post.
The federation said the German trainer would be unveiled to the press in the next few days after the finalisation of the terms of engagement between the two parties.
Rohr was previously in charge of Gabon and Niger, guiding the former to the quarter finals of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
He went on to crash out at the first round with Niger during the 2013 edition in South Africa.
A defender during his playing days, Rohr had also coached at French sides Bordeaux, Creteil, Nice, Ajaccio, Young Boys of Switzerland and Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel, among others.
