Josephs and Hunt win top accolades
BIDVEST Wits’ Gavin Hunt and Moeneeb Josephs capped winning the Absa Premiership title last month by also notching the league’s coach and player of the month awards yesterday.
Clever Boys coach, Hunt, oversaw four wins and two defeats guiding Wits through the nervy final month of their first league title in their 95-year existence.
Last month Wits won 1-0 against Maritzburg United‚ 1-0 against Orlando Pirates‚ 1-0 against Mamelodi Sundowns and 2-0 against Polokwane City‚ losing 3-1 against Free State Stars and 1-0 against Kaizer Chiefs.
Goalkeeper Josephs‚ who played just eight games this season as he was kept on the bench by Darren Keet‚ played four matches last month‚ keeping clean sheets against Maritzburg‚ Pirates and Sundowns.
Hunt said the competition between Keet and Josephs at and depth they offered at goalkeeper, was one of the deciding factors – and differences – between his Wits title-winners and the sides that finished third‚ third, and second in the coach’s previous three seasons.
“Moeneeb – he knows that at the start of the season he was the No.1 [keeper at Wits]. The season before he won goalkeeper of the year. He started well‚ then got himself sent off. Then he struggled to get back. “Then he came back at the end.” Kaizer Chiefs star Siphiwe Tshabalala walked away with the goal of the month award for April for his 14thminute chip from outside the area over keeper Reyaad Pieterse in a 2-2 draw against SuperSport United at Mbombela Stadium on April 29. The full awards: Goal of the month for April: Siphiwe Tshabalala‚ Kaizer Chiefs (v SuperSport United‚ Mbombela Stadium‚ April 29)
Coach of the month for May: Gavin Hunt‚ Bidvest Wits
Player of the month for May: Moeneeb Josephs‚ Bidvest Wits. — TMG