SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt has confessed that taking the job of Kaizer Chiefs was not something he really wanted, because he knew about “all the mine fields”.
He said he took the Chiefs at a time that was the most frustrating time in his coaching and football career because of the end of the existence of Bidvest Wits.
Wits were sold to form Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM), leading Hunt and most of his players to go.
Hunt, in joining Chiefs in September 2020, created a huge excitement to Amakhosi fans, having built a good career at SuperSport and Bidvest Wits, winning four league trophies.
However, Hunt arrived at Chiefs who were serving a FIFA ban of not signing players, making his job difficult from the start.
With Chiefs struggling to get into the top eight, the management decided to part ways with Hunt on 28 May last year, having been in charge of 44 games – winning 12, losing 15 with 17 draws – and leading his side into the CAF Champions League semi-finals.
“Two years ago I really had a biggest blow in my football career when Wits got sold, we were all in the bubble (during the last part of the 2019/20 season), we were in the hotel for six weeks, locked away and we were told we don’t have jobs,” he said On the Whistle podcast.
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“That was the biggest blow in my playing, coaching career and everything. So it was really downer side and everyone was being sold off like meat and I was the last one who got the job.
“I took the job that I didn’t really want because I knew all the mine fields you are going to get to those types of jobs.
“At Wits, I was there for six seasons. I always say, if I ever go back, I’ll go back to SuperSport, I always said that.
“Obviously last season it never came. SuperSport were doing very well [under Kaitano Tembo]. I always say, jobs look for you, not you looking for them and I knew it was not going to happen.
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“I have been out, for the first time in my football life, playing because I went straight from playing to coaching, the first time since 1981 that I was out of football for six months.”
