Steve Kean will remain as manager of All White captain Ryan Nelsen's Blackburn Rovers Premier League football club until the end of the season.
Kean was promoted from first-team coach to caretaker manager following the surprise sacking of former boss Sam Allardyce and assistant Neil McDonald last week.
Venky's, the Indian-based poultry business that took over the north-west club last month for 23 million pounds ($NZ 47.7 million dollars), had made it clear they would not rush to appoint a successor to Allardyce.