In this edition of My Locker Room Secrets former Kaizer Chiefs coach and player Sergio Dos Santos reveals the secrets in the Soweto giants' dressing room during his playing days.
Whose Locker Room are we in today?
"Sergio Do Santos."
Who was always late?
"Those days I don't think we had players who came late, I must be honest with you. In those days the guys behaved themselves. It could happen with this guy and that guy. It was never the same player all the time.
"And in those days football was not full-time like now. You worked during the day and trained in the afternoons, around 18:00.
"I was at Chiefs as a player in '82, '83, '84. As a coach, I was there in 1993. A very, very difficult start to my coaching career. Because at the time Augusto Palacios was the head coach of Bafana Bafana and eight of the players were in the Bafana Bafana camp. I didn't have a full squad when I started. And they had won two or three trophies under Jeff Butler the year before. So even then there were very few players that were late."
Any interesting rituals before they played?
"There were always rituals, we used to stay in a hotel in Johannesburg. That was the night before the match. Before you went to bed you had to do the ritual bath. The only problem I had was when it came to the cutting part. I refused to be cut."
Who was the jokester?
"Malombo Lechaba and Shakes Kungwane. Of the players I coached, Shakes Kungwane was always doing something opposite. Even on the field of play, he did some crazy things. He was a prankster."
Was it a muti change room?
"Not much happened in the changing room. Sometimes when you went to the changing room, the muti man was already there. The major thing took place the night before in the hotel. That's how it used to be."
Who was the singer?
"In my time Teenage Dladla, Steve Maseko, Jan Malombo Lechaba. You sang along with the tune; you didn't know the words. The changing room is full of smoke, the witch doctor is walking around shaking his head and putting stuff in your boots. Most times it was a traditional song that came from way back. I don't know the name of the song.
"When I coached Shakes Kungwane was definitely at the forefront."
Who was the best dressed and worst dressed?
"Malombo Lechaba, Banks Sethlodi Marks Maponyane liked to dress nicely and in 1993 Shoes Moshoeu, Steve Khompela... I brought him to Chiefs from Free State Stars.
"I signed Shoes, Steve, and Benjamin Reed from Bloemfontein Celtic. Shakes Kungwane dressed differently; he liked a lot of different colours. Shakes was a character."
Who never showered?
"Everybody showered. The only time they didn't shower was when they were rushing to the airport. Some guys were very shy as well, they didn't want to shower without anything on."
Rate the coach's team talk...
"Banks Sethlodi was the first coach when I arrived. He didn't talk much. He relied a lot on the power of the players.
"Eddie Lewis was very involved in terms of telling you what he expected.
"And then we had one guy, I think he was from Chile or Argentina, one of those places. He was a joke. He had no clue what he was talking about. He took over from Banks. The team was doing very badly because of him."