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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt says the proposed strict requirements by the South African Football Association (Safa) for foreign coaches wishing to work in the country should also apply to locals.<\/p>\n

Safa are planning to introduce requirements that foreign coaches must hold a Uefa Pro Licence or a CAF A Licence and have won a trophy in seven years to be eligible to coach in the Premier Soccer League (PSL). Speaking after United launched a late fightback to beat Moroka Swallows 2-1 in their DStv Premiership clash at Dobsonville Stadium on Friday, the outspoken Hunt said there must be criteria for everyone to work in the top league.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt any professional level, it doesn’t matter what country or where, there should be a certain criterion to be able to work. Be it a local or a foreigner, there should be certain criteria,\u201d he said, adding that the requirements should have been introduced a long time ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see it has just come out now, but it should have been done a long time ago. There should have been criteria to coach at a top level and it must be for any football league in the world. Even in the second and third division, there should be certain criteria to coach there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt, who recently attended the Caf A coaching course with fellow PSL coaches Steve Barker, Eric Tinkler and others from the Motsepe Foundation Championship to the lower league, said courses are important.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey certainly enhance and make you better but it doesn\u2019t mean you are going to be a better coach. I did mine many years ago. I thought I knew a lot but I realised when I got there that I didn’t know anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was coaching already for six to seven years in the PSL but I found out I didn\u2019t know anything until I went there. I was with Swallows when I did my coaching badges and I found out that there is a lot to know and I had been coaching for about seven years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn’t say they made me a better coach but they made me to analyse and see things better and to have solutions to problems which is obviously signing the best players.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you have to coach problems in teams and we certainly need a level of competence anywhere in the world and that\u2019s what I think. We better hurry up and start doing things right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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