SuperSport United head coach Gavin Hunt wants young South African goalkeepers to be afforded more chances in the PSL FILE - SuperSport United head coach Gavin Hunt wants young South African goalkeepers to be afforded more chances in the PSL. Photo: Ayanda Ndamane/Independent Newspapers
SuperSport United head coach Gavin Hunt has called for the PSL to introduce a new rule that would prioritise the development of South African goalkeepers.
According to the Matsatsantsa mentor, the high number of foreign goalkeepers in the Betway Premiership means younger players are not being given chances to prove themselves.
Hunt was speaking after his team were on the wrong end of a 4-0 humiliation by Kaizer Chiefs in the Carling Knockout Cup on the weekend where Rwanda international Faicre Ntwari kept a clean sheet for Amakhosi.
He urged the powers that be to follow the example of the Egyptian Premier League, where clubs are not permitted to select foreign goalkeepers.
“It is very difficult if you look at teams; there’s a lot of foreign goalkeepers around maybe the rules have to be changed, or the clubs need to give opportunities to the local goalkeeper if there is [one] available,” Hunt said after the game, as quoted by iDiskiTimes.
“It is something we look very closely in the starting which we did with Ronwen when he came as a 12-year-old to us and he got his debut, we’re going to play five games and take the decision from there.
“Moeneeb Josephs I did it with him, Wendell Robinson top goalkeeper,” SuperSport United coach Hunt said.
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