AKIPRESS.COM - Kazakhstan fans could choose their country’s next coach in an online vote as part of a rare democratic experiment.

Fans have been offered a choice between a Kazakh or foreign coach on the federation’s website. In the second round, fans will pick a name from a list of coaches, the federation spokesman Dmitry Nesterenko said.

The candidates will all be realistic hires rather than global stars, Nesterenko said, with “basically, no Mourinho” who recently left Chelsea. However, the Central Asian nation’s foray into internet democracy has been hampered by low participation, reports The Guardian.

The federation said 50,000 votes would be needed to consider the vote valid but barely 5% of that figure had been reached as of Monday evening, with only four days to go. There was a clear preference for a foreign coach, that option leading by 1,732 votes to 836.