{"id":16252,"date":"2019-12-03T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2019-12-03T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T15:58:43","slug":"gavin-hunt-rubishes-mcclive-phiri-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gavin-hunt-rubishes-mcclive-phiri-interest","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Hunt rubishes McClive Phiri interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt has categorically denied that the South African top flight side sent scouts to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/thehighlanders.co.nz\/\">Highlanders<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/globalsportsarchive.com\/people\/soccer\/macclive-phiri\/175603\/\">MacClive Phiri<\/a> at Barbourfields Stadium as a way to assess the player.<\/p>\n<p>A Bulawayo-based publication reported that scouts from the Clever Boys were at Emagumeni to watch Phiri in the Chibuku Super Cup final on Sunday as the club have their sights on him, something which Hunt vehemently denied in an interview with Kick Off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it. Which scouts are those?\u201d Hunt asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy for those scouts, whoever they are I\u2019d love to know. Ja I\u2019d love to know who those people are,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt has categorically denied that the South African top flight side sent scouts to watch Highlanders defender MacClive Phiri at Barbourfields Stadium as a way to assess the player. 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