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Article: Mokone's arrival caused stir in 50s.(Sport)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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Byline: Jim Brown
JAMES HUNT wrote to me last week wanting to know more about Steve 'Kalamazoo' Mokone, Coventry City's first black player in the 1950s.
Not only was he the first black South African to play first-class football in England but also the first to play outside his native country. Although he s only played five games for City his story is an amazing one that has been the subject of two books and a film.
There was a real buzz in 1956 when Mokone arrived at Highfield Road. He hailed from Doornfontein and played for Home Stars FC, also ...