Hunt favoured for Bafana job

According to reports, Bidvest Wits head coach Gavin Hunt is finally to be given his chance to take charge of Bafana Bafana.

Johannesburg - According to reports, Bidvest Wits head coach Gavin Hunt is finally to be given his chance to take charge of the senior national team, Bafana Bafana.

Should Hunt indeed take up the Bafana hot seat, four-time Absa Premiership title-winning coach Gordon Igesund, currently without a job since being sacked by SuperSport United at the start of the year, will apparently be the man to take over at Wits. In his three seasons with the Students, Hunt has secured two third place and one second-placed finishes in the league.

But with current national team leader Shakes Mashaba having failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and the chances of participation in the 2017 African Cup of Nations looking very slim, it looks as if it will be Hunt's time to take charge of the country's footballing fortunes.

It's a position that many feel he deserves a crack at, the 51-year-old's CV amongst the most impressive in local soccer circles. The former Hellenic right-back's greatest achievement came at SuperSport United, who he led to three consecutive titles between 2007 and 2010.

He also lifted the Nedbank Cup in 2012 with the Tshwane side, having won the same competition (then called the Absa Cup) with Moroka Swallows in 2004, during a fairly successful five year stint with the Birds.

He has won the Coach of the Year award four times, the first occasion during a two-year spell at Black Leopards, whom he joined after first cutting his managerial teeth at Seven Stars and Hellenic.

During his time with Lidoda Duvha, Hunt impressed with his ability to get the unfashionable rural team to punch above their weight.

With no official word on the matter however, the 65-year-old Mashaba however remains in charge for now, and is set to lead Bafana into battle against Gambia this weekend in an AFCON Group M qualifier

African News Agency