Clive Barker- South African football coach

My guest this week is an icon of South African football. Clive Barker coached the South African football team Bafana Bafana to victory in the African Cup of Nations on home soil back in 1996. Along the way he coached a umber of championship club teams including his favourite 1985 Durban Bush Bucks.

Clive was sixteen years old when he made his professional debut for Durban City but two serious knee injuries pushed him into coaching.

He has recently published his memoirs, "Coach -The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker, written in conjunction with Micheal Marnewick.

The book is a journey though modern South African football, both during and after apartheid, and contains a wonderful selection of anecdotes from Clive, as well as tit-bits from some of the many famous players he coached including Calvin Peterson, Mark Fish and Doctor Khumalo. Clive was at the center of the golden age of south African football for two decades.

We chatted about coaching, the qualities he looked for in players, the 1996 final and his friendship with Nelson Mandela.