The Ghana Football Association is close to reaching an agreement with Aston Villa over the appointment of George Boateng as an Assistant coach of the Black Stars.

Boateng was born to Ghanaian parents but played his International football for Netherlands and currently coaches the AstonVilla U-23 side.

After Ghana's dismal showing at the 2021 African Cup of Nations tournament in Cameroon, Serbian trainer Milovan Rajevac was shown the exit with Otto Addo being made the coach whiles George Boateng and Masaud Didi Dramani were made assistant coaches.

Whiles Irishman with Ghanaian father Chris Hughton was made a technical advisor to the Otto Addo lead technical team.

The new look technical team masterminded a qualification over fierce rivals Nigeria in a two legged play off game.

Their contract ended after securing qualification to the World Cup against Nigeria but the GFA is keen to continue with the same team and are in talks to quickly wrap up negotiations with the German club as qualifies for the 2023 AFCON will begin in  June.

There have been talks about maintaining the same team as talks is underway with those contracted with other sides.

Ghana has been drawn in group H at the 2022 FIFA World Cup alongside Portugal, Korea Republic and Uruguay.

Meanwhile the qualifies for the 2023 AFCON in Ivory Coast will start in June with Ghana drawn alongside Angola, Central African Republic and Madagascar.