Gavin Hunt

Multiple title-winning coach Gavin Hunt has emerged as a shock coaching target for a DStv Premiership club ahead of the 2022/23 season. Photo: PA

Gavin Hunt moves closer to shock DStv Premiership coaching job!

Multiple title-winning coach Gavin Hunt has emerged as a shock coaching target for a DStv Premiership club ahead of the 2022/23 season.

Gavin Hunt

Multiple title-winning coach Gavin Hunt has emerged as a shock coaching target for a DStv Premiership club ahead of the 2022/23 season. Photo: PA

Gavin Hunt has emerged as a shock coaching target for a DStv Premiership club ahead of the 2022/23 season.

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Hunt has been unemployed since parting ways with Chippa United in December last year.

Prior to that he was sacked as coach of Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs.

Gavin Hunt could be back in the dugout next season

However, according to the Soccer Laduma website, Hunt could well find himself back in the dugout in the new season.

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Gavin Hunt is a four-time PSL title winner having led SuperSport United to a hat-trick of titles as well as having overseen now defunct Bidvest Wits’ only ever title win.

According to sources, Hunt is being targeted by Maritzburg United and is believed to be on the shortlist of coaches for the now vacant role at the Team of Choice.

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As reported by The South African website, Maritzburg United parted ways with another former Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp earlier in the week.

Hunt’s biggest opposition for the role at the KwaZulu-Natal side could be former Orlando Pirates co-coach Fadlu Davids.

However, Davids has also been linked with the SuperSport United job.

Quite a merry-go-round of PSL coaching roles!

Watch this space to see how it all unfolds.

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