Sporting Digest: Football

The Barnet striker Dean Samuels has joined the Conference club Stevenage Borough for an undisclosed fee.

Bristol City have signed the Danish central defender Clemens Zwijnenberg from Aalborg on a three-month loan with a view to a pounds 400,000 permanent deal. He is expected to make his debut against Ipswich Town at Portman Road tomorrow.

The South African Football Federation have lined up three possible candidates to take over as national coach. They are the former Dutch international Ruud Krol, the present coach of the South African club Manning Rangers, Gordon Igesund, and Carlos Alberto Pareira, Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning coach. A final decision is expected next week.