Bermuda Football Association (BFA) have identified their chosen candidate to coach the senior national team and hope make an appointment before the start of the Bermuda Hogges season.The BFA have completed interviewing and assessing the only three applicants to be considered for the role believed to be Shaun Goater, Kyle Lightbourne and Andrew Bascome and have them listed in order of preference.Mark Wade, BFA’s player development committee chairman, said an offer would be made to their first choice candidate within the next few weeks.“We’re in the final stages of selection at the moment. We should be able to make some kind of announcement fairly soon, we’re just working through our budgets for the year,” he said.“We should be able to make an offer to the preferred candidate soon. We haven’t made our decision but have (the candidates) listed in order of priority in terms of who we want to make the first offer to.”With Bermuda’s Caribbean Cup campaign in Cayman Islands little more than three months away, the BFA want the chosen man to work alongside Hogges coach Maurice Lowe whose squad will be heavily flavoured with national team players.Although the role will be a part-time position, Devarr Boyles, BFA’s director of player development, said the successful candidate would be offered a two-year contract.“We hope to make an offer pretty soon. In this climate the position will be part-time for a minimum of two years,” said Boyles.“We’re hoping to have him in place before the start of the Hogges season so he can work alongside Maurice during their 16-game season,” said Boyles.“Then we will have a minimum of three games at the Caribbean Cup, and hopefully we will get to the second stage because we have a right to think that we should be based on a World Cup qualifying campaign.“Next year the Island Games will be in Bermuda when the national team will have a minimum of five matches, so there’s a busy programme of games ahead for the new coach.”Boyles said the level of funding the BFA received from Government would determine the type of financial package offered to the new coach.“We’re waiting for whatever comes back from Government before we build a financial package to offer the successful candidate,” he said.“If we haven’t heard from Government (by the end of the month) we’re still going to present a package to the coach and say ‘we do want you subject to the finances’.“When we have a full picture of the finances (the coach) can decide whether it’s something he can work with or not.”Goater, Lightbourne and Bascome have all thrown their hat into the ring for the head coach’s post.The top position became available after Boyles had fulfilled the role on an interim basis following Bermuda’s exit from 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers last November.