Former Bafana Bafana captain, Neil Tovey insists that Kaizer Chiefs were his Manchester United, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, and that's why he hardly ever thought of moving overseas.
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The 52-year-old, who recently suffered a serious health scare, says playing for Amakhosi is what he always dreamed about as a child.
"Chiefs are a top, top club to play for. When I started my pro career in 1981, there was no Bafana," the SA legend told Soccer Laduma.
"What we could strive for is to play for the best and most successful team in SA, which undoubtedly was Chiefs.
"They were the Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Liverpool of SA football."
He admitted, though, that he once went for trials at Watford, who were second-placed in the English Premiership at the time.
"In 1982, I did go across to Watford for a month. John Barnes was there and they came second to Liverpool that year," Tovey explains.
"I went in December in the middle of the English winter. It was a bad time to go, but I should've stuck it out longer.
"Then again I'm happy I didn't because my career took its own path back home."
Tovey, who led Bafana Bafana to the 1996 AFCON title, started his career at Durban City, before moving to AmaZulu in 1986.
Three years later he joined Chiefs and played nine years for the South African giants before hanging up his boots in 1999.
Read the full interview with Neil Tovey in this week's Soccer Laduma, issue 916.
