Some super skilled players of Rangers Football Club, which was a semi professional soccer team in the 1960-1980s include amongst others Ronnie, Koekemoor, Archie Soekoe, Hilton Grainger, Percy Owen, Des Bakos, Brian Mason, Roy Jones, Bobby Viljoen, Mike Connell (Also later played for Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USA), Booby Arber, Henry Hill, Gerry Farrel, Mike Hugo, Dennis Snoyman, with excellent youth teams including Keith Viljoen, Ivor Viljoen, Angelo Nicolaidis, Billy Harrison, Kevin Hunter, George Peters, Greg Daubern, Douglas Walls and other talented players in the 1970s to 1980s. Some also later played for the Portuguese Club Lusitano, Highlands Park and another Johannesburg club called Jewish Guild. These were also First division clubs with some great players. and also shared the Rand Stadium as a home ground. The best coach they had was Alex Forbes. He played for Sheffield United and also Arsenal in the late 1940s and he was also the Arsenal youth team coach in England for a while. Forbes also coached Orlando Pirates in 1975 and later other local teams like Highlands Park, Western Tigers and Swaraj.
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