Gordon Igesund

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 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 giants Orlando Pirates. 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 AFC Ajax. Igesund’s time with Ajax proved rather unsuccessful and he left the team at the end of the 2005/06 season. He then replaced Sundowns' co-coaches Miguel Gamondi and Neil Tovey. Igesund added to his record number of PSL titles leading Sundowns to a comfortable PSL win in 2007. Igesund took over hearetained as the president d coach of Moroka Swallows in November 2010. He took Swallows to second place in the 2011/12 season and received the PSL Coach of the Season award for the second time. On 30 June 2012, Igesund was appointed as the South Africa national team coach on a two-year deal. Under Gordon Igesund leadership South Africa national team were knocked out in a dramatic penalty shootout defeat against Mali on 2 February 2013 after the match ended in a draw during the 2013 quarter finals. On…

Igesund was born in Durban to George Norman Igesund (born 1932). His family lived in Port Shepstone where former Arsenal player Danny Le Roux lived.

1992 NSL Second Division champion (D'Alberton Callies) 1996/97 PSL champion (Manning Rangers) 2000/01 PSL champion (Orlando Pirates) 2001/02 PSL champion (Santos) 2000 BP Top Eight Cup winner (Orlando Pirates) 2006/07 PSL champion (Sundowns) 2007 SAA Supa 8 winner (Sundowns) 2014 Telkom Knockout (SuperSport United)