“The modern game keeps evolving every day and it is imperative to stay abreast of modern trends,” SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt told journalists in Johannesburg.

The United coach likes to quietly jet out of the country to attend coaching courses in Europe and is believed to be one of the highly qualified local coaches.

Perhaps that is why Bloemfontein Celtic coach Owen da Gama also intends traveling to either Brazil or Germany towards the end of this week to attend refresher coaching courses in those countries ahead of the start of the local Absa Premiership championship towards the end of August.

“He will be on the bench when Celtic feature in the Old Mutual Mangaung Cup this weekend,” said a club member. “But I think he will depart immediately afterwards and hopefully be back before the start of the league championship,” added our source.

Pretoria TUKS coach Steve Barker is currently in England to also attend some refresher courses and is due back in the country towards the end of the week.

Barker also came to the attention of the public when he guided TUKS to the final of the Nedbank Cup where they narrowly lost 1-0 to Moroka Swallows.

According to Supersport.com, it is good to see local coaches traveling to countries like Germany for instance to learn how the Germans managed to assemble a team of relatively young and inexperienced players with an average age of 21 and yet managed to cause such a stir in the recently ended FIFA World Cup in South Africa.