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In the space of 10 days, two Ghanaian coaches made appointments to lead national teams.
Former Ghana Premier League winner Bashir Hayford has been confirmed as the new head of the Somali national team.
"We needed someone very experienced to identify the players and help the other junior teams," Abdiqani Said Arab, president of the SFF, told BBC Sport.
"He will start to identify players before the qualifying match of the 2015 Africa Nations Total Championship (CHAN) where we will face Rwanda in the first round."
His two-year contract follows the announcement that Samuel 'Paa' Kwesi Fabin was also announced as Uganda's national coach for U-20s and under 17 last week.
The former boss of Kotoko took office after leading Ghana to the FIFA U-17 World Cup in India last year. Uganda is looking for a qualifying position for the next edition and Fabin's reputation for finding talented young people has raised the expectations of this East African country.
Moses Magogo, the head of the Ugandan federation, said of his nomination: "The arrival of Samuel Kwesi will improve our minor teams as he is a very experienced coach who competed in the Junior World Cup. We needed a coach with such experience. In Uganda, our dream is to be the best of Africa on the playing field. Kwesi has the potential to lead us to the World Cup given his experience. We promise to support him fully. "
An export tradition
The last Ghanaian coach's appointment to a national team dates back to August 2015, when Sellas Tetteh was first established as a goalkeeper for Sierra Leone's senior team. In March 2016, he became permanent, until 2017.
Ghana's role as a pioneer in all areas of football already existed before independence in 1957, when some of the world's best teams of the hour, such as Real Madrid, Stoke City (with Stanley Matthews) and the Brazilian Santos (with Pelé in tow) in the country.
Ghanaian coaches are regularly invited as guests of European football badociations or are invited by the state to double their emerging tactical systems.
This exhibition has been reflected in the field, with Ghana being the undisputed dominant force of football on the continent, as evidenced by the titles of the African Cup of 1963 and 1965.
Charles 'CK' Gyamfi was the star coach of this period. His travels in Europe had turned him into a master of the WM formation, which he had adapted to the terrain. He would soon be landing jobs outside the country.
Since then, eight others have been badigned similar roles across the continent, as illustrated in this infographic.
Fred Osam Duodu notably won the Under-17 Africa Cup with The Gambia in 2005, while Ben Koufie was considered the father of development football in the many African nations where he worked.
Ghana has also had a long list of coaches who have manipulated large teams of clubs across Africa.
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