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Benni McCarthy
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South African association football player (born 1977)
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Benni McCarthy, born Benedict Saul McCarthy in Cape Town, South Africa, on 11 November 1977, is a South African association football player and coach. Standing 183 cm tall and weighing 87 kg, he played as a forward for clubs including AFC Ajax, FC Porto, West Ham United F.C., and RC Celta de Vigo. He represented South Africa in international competitions, participating in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998 African Cup of Nations, 2000 Summer Olympics, and 2002 FIFA World Cup.
In his coaching career, McCarthy has led Cape Town City F.C., AmaZulu F.C., and the Kenya men's national football team. He has also been involved in the Premier League.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 14
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,657x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools
· 2021 · cited 15,653x
- All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins
· 1998 · cited 13,354x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,688x
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Key facts
- 2025
- Kenya
- Full name
- Benedict Saul McCarthy
- Date of birth
- ( 1977-11-12 ) 12 November 1977 (age 48)
- Place of birth
- Cape Town , South Africa
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Forward
- Current team
- Kenya (manager)
- Years
- Team
- 1995 1997
- Seven Stars
- 1996 1997
- → Cape Town Spurs (loan)
- 1997 1999
- Ajax
- 1999 2003
- Celta Vigo
- 2003 2006
- Porto
- 2006 2010
- Blackburn Rovers
- 2010 2011
- West Ham United
- 2011 2013
- Orlando Pirates
- 1997 2012
- South Africa
- 2017 2019
- Cape Town City
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Benedict Saul McCarthy (born 12 November 1977) 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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