Career
Born in Sydney, Roberts played association football for Sydney Prague and Bankstown City Football Club and then Canberra City Football Club and other clubs in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory after he moved there in 1973. In 1987 Roberts and Charles Perkins Association for the Study of Internal Fixation devised the first Aboriginal Futsal Cup with Canada and Roberts coached the first Australian Aboriginal indoor soccer select team Roberts went on to coach the Australian national futsal team from 1992 until 2000.
Under his stewardship, the team qualified for and competed at the 1992 Fédération internationale de football association Futsal World Championship in Hong Kong, the 1996 Fédération internationale de football association Futsal World Championship in Spain, and the 2000 Fédération internationale de football association Futsal World Championship in Guatemala.
At the time of his retirement from coaching in 2000, he was one of only four national team coaches in history to have participated in three Fédération internationale de football association futsal world cups. The national team played 66 games under his leadership.
In 1985, Roberts became President of ACT Sports House, a position that he held until 2003. Under his presidency, ACT Sports House became ACTSport, the peak industry body for sport in the Australian Capital Territory.
In 2011 Roberts was once again president of ACTSport, and was still in the position in September 2013.
