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Benni McCarthy

Forward · RC Celta de Vigo · former player (until 2003)

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South African footballer and coach (born 1977)

Age 48

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Benedict Saul McCarthy is a South African professional soccer coach and former player who is currently the manager of the Kenya national football team. A former forward, McCarthy is the South Africa national team's all-time top scorer with 31 goals. He is also the only South African to have won the UEFA Champions League, doing so with Porto in 2004. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest South African players of all time.

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