Ex Manchester United player Quinton Fortune won the Premier League three times in 1999, 2000, and 2002. He earned 46 caps for South Africa, and played at the 1998 and the 2002 World Cups. He was one of South Africa’s most influential players in the 2002 World Cup.
Since retiring, Quinton returned to Manchester United to train with their reserve team while working on his coaching badges, which he completed in 2013. The next year he was appointed assistant coach to Cardiff City’s Under-21 side. In 2019, he became Under-23 assistant coach at Manchester United, and in 2020 he was appointed as first-team coach of Reading.
Quinton has worked with many TV production teams. Sky Sports, ITV, Astro Sport, BBC 5 Live and MUTV to name a few. He also worked for ITV4 during their coverage of the Africa Cup of Nations 2015 and was a main guest pundit for the Africa Cup of Nations final in 2022 with Sky Sports.
August 2022, Quinton was appointed as a coach supporting the England youth teams as part of The Football Association and Professional Footballers’ Association’s joint England Elite Coach Programme (EECP).