Gordon Igesund is a former South Africa

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n football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player and coach who became manager of Premier Soccer League

Premier Soccer League

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 club Moroka Swallows in 2010.

Playing career

A prolific striker during his heyday, Igesund played for Durban City, Durban United

Durban United F.C.

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, Highlands Park, Durban Bush Bucks, AmaZulu

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, D'Alberton Callies, African Wanderers

African Wanderers

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 and also in Austria

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 for GAK

Grazer AK

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 and Admira Wacker.

Coaching career

Igesund is a record-breaking coach in South Africa, having become the only man to coach four different top-flight teams to the Premier Soccer League championship. He first made his name when he led unfashionable coastal team Manning Rangers

Manning Rangers

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 to the inaugural PSL title in the 1996/97 season. He followed this up in the 2000/01 season with another title, this time at the helm of Soweto

Soweto

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 giants Orlando Pirates. Despite his success with the Buccaneers, Igesund was not popular with the Pirates faithful, who demanded a more attacking and entertaining brand of football than the efficient and controlled game that Igesund had fostered, leading to his departure.

He proved his critics wrong the very next season, taking another unfashionable team, Cape Town’s Santos, to a surprise PSL title in 2001/02. But the nomadic Igesund was soon changing his allegiance again, this time moving to Ajax Cape Town, the satellite club of Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam

Ajax Amsterdam

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. Igesund’s time with Ajax proved rather unsuccessful and he left the team at the end of the 2005/06 season. He replaced Sundowns’ co-coaches Miguel Gamondi and Neil Tovey

Neil Tovey

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. Igesund added to his record number of PSL titles leading Sundowns to a comfortable PSL win in 2007.

Coaching honours

• 1996/97 PSL champion (Manning Rangers
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• 2000/01 PSL champion (Orlando Pirates)
• 2001/02 PSL champion (Santos
  Santos Football Club (South Africa)
  Santos Football Club or simply Santos, also known under their sponsored title as Engen Santos, is a professional South African football club based in Lansdowne, Cape Town that plays in the Premier Soccer League.-History:...
  
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• 2000 BP Top Eight Cup winner (Orlando Pirates)
• 2006/07 PSL champion (Sundowns)
• 2007 SAA Supa 8 winner (Sundowns)