Sacked Togo head coach Stephen Keshi has been awarded the Coach of the Year Award by the CAF in their annual awards ceremony, the same week he was sacked by the Togo Football Federation.

In a move that will, no doubt, highly embarrass the Togolese Football Federation (TFF), former Sparrowhawks boss Stephen Keshi was named as the Coach of the Year.

The Nigerian was dismissed earlier this week by the TFF following Togo's poor performance from the Togolese at the recent African Cup of Nations tournament, and after Keshi’s public rifts with players.

The TFF's decision was announced during a television programme on Monday with Federation officials saying that differences between Keshi and certain key players in the Sparrowhawks team in the run-up to the African Cup of Nations had forced them to take the decision.

Keshi, who previously captained Nigeria’s ‘Super Eagles’, achieved the unprecedented feat of managing to guide Togo to this summer's World Cup finals, winning their group ahead of African giants Senegal, and Zambia.

German coach Otto Pfister and Bora Milutinovic, the Serbian that managed the Nigeria team in the 1998 World Cup finals, are among the candidates in the running to succeed Stephen Keshi.

Pfister, who managed Ghana at the 1992 Nations Cup finals, has reportedly opened talks with TFF officials.

Togo have been drawn in Group G at the World Cup finals, alongside France, South Korea and Switzerland.

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