Bafana’s crowning moment

Glyn Binkin is best known as one of the country’s leading football agents, active in the transfer of players both domestically and overseas. His top clients in the past have included Lucas Radebe and Mark Fish.

But his entrée to the soccer business came through Bafana Bafana, where he had started working with the national team, first as a coordinator with their marketing partners and then as the full-time team manager. At the Cup of Nations in 1996, he was the team’s de facto administrator

“It was an all-encompassing role, liaising with the clubs and players, facilitating travel and all other logistics, and coordinating the team’s daily activities,” he says.

Binkin, who was just 23 at the time, had been a junior coach at Pretoria City and worked as a liaison when clubs like Arsenal and Benfica had come to South Africa on