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Gordon Igesund is a South African football manager and former player. He was born on 22 July 1956 in Durban, South Africa. He is currently the manager of the South African national team.
Igesund began his career as a player in the South African National Football League, playing for Durban City and Durban United. He then moved to the United States, where he played for the San Diego Sockers in the North American Soccer League.
Igesund began his managerial career in South Africa in 1989, managing Durban City and then Durban United. He then moved to the United States, where he managed the San Diego Sockers in the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
In South Africa, Igesund has managed a number of clubs, including Manning Rangers, Santos, Moroka Swallows, Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns, and SuperSport United. He has also managed the South African national team on two occasions, from 2002 to 2004 and from 2012 to 2013.
Igesund has won a number of trophies in South Africa, including the Premier Soccer League title with Mamelodi Sundowns in 2007 and the Nedbank Cup with SuperSport United in 2010. He was also named South African Football Association Coach of the Year in 2007.
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68 years old |
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22 July, 1956 |
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22 July |
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Durban, South Africa |
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South Africa |
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Timeline
Igesund returned to Highlands Park to become there manager in October 2016, where he used to play his football. However, on 1 April 2017, Highlands Park's club director Sinky Mnisi confirmed that Igesund had been fired with only four matches remaining in the 2016/17 season. Igesund was shocked upon hearing the news and he responded that the club "were on track with our plan and only one point off the tally we had marked out at this stage."
Igesund was appointed head coach of SuperSport United in September 2014 and in November 2014 he led the team to the Telkom Knockout title. However, following a series of poor results he was fired in January 2016.
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 3 June 2014, SAFA announced that they will not be renewing his contract with the South African national football team.
On 30 June 2012, Igesund was appointed as the South Africa national team coach on a two-year deal.
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.
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.
Gordon Igesund (born 22 July 1956) is a former South African football player and coach who was most recently the manager of Highlands Park in the Premier Soccer League.
Igesund was born in Durban to George Norman Igesund (born 1932) who Igesund was named after. His family lived in Port Shepstone where former Arsenal player Danny Le Roux lived.
Igesund's ancestry can be traced as far back as 1752 in Stokkset Møre og Romsdal, Norway. His great-grandfather and great-grandmother and Isak Mathinus Isaksen Igesund (12 October 1851 in Igesund, Herøy - 1928 in Port Shepstone) and Dorthe Petrine Sorendsdtr Brekke (3 February 1853 in Brekke, Ørsta, Møre og Romsdal - 1897 in Port Shepstone) arrived as part of the 229 Marburg Norwegian Settlers who sailed on the “Lapland” from Ålesund departing on July 14, 1882 and arriving on 29 August 1882 at the Umzimkulu River, Port Shepstone to settle in Marburg and build the Norwegian Settlers Church which still exists today. Norwegian origin surnames were given by the area they were born in. Igesund's ancestors are from Igesund, Møre og Romsdal, a small farming community island near Alesund. His Austria-born son Grant Igesund (born in 1982) is also a retired professional footballer who played as a striker for Ajax Cape Town, Manning Rangers and Maritzburg United among others.
