None of the three jobs advertised by the newly-enriched Bermuda Football Association will be filled until a highly-qualified technical director has been hired.

Asked yesterday if there has been any progress on the hiring of a youth director, a youth co-ordinator and fund development manager, technical committee chairman Mark Trott insisted their attention at this stage was focused almost exclusively on the top job — a job that could come with a salary of $150,000-plus and which they are now hoping to fill by the end of August.

While local candidates will be considered, the eventual winner of the race to be the BFA’s technical director is likely to come from overseas.

The Royal Gazette revealed earlier this year that former Liverpool and England winger John Barnes had a expressed an interest in the role, and Trott said yesterday the BFA had received a number of other enquiries and CVs from abroad over the last couple of months.

Bermuda Hogges co-owner Shaun Goater has already confirmed that he applied for the youth director’s job — but Trott said the technical director would be the person primarily responsible for hiring the new team.

“The technical director’s remit will be a broad one and we will wait until we have that person on board before we start hiring others because they will have a very big say in who fills those other positions,” he said.

“What I will say is that we are very keen to get on with it. We are currently waiting for a consultant from FIFA to come to the Island — probably as early as July 5th — and we will then sit down with him and work out the specifics of the role and what sort of financial package we should be offering. “Once that is done we will begin considering applications.”

Soon after Government announced they were to inject $15 million into football over five years — eclipsing the $11 million given to cricket in 2005 — the BFA unveiled a detailed strategic plan which highlighted, among many other goals, their intention to more than double the number of full-time staff on their books.