Benni McCarthy
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Person
- Born
- 1977-11-12
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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 38,988x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools
· 2021 · cited 14,606x
- All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins
· 1998 · cited 13,274x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
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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
Key dates
- Born
- 12 November 1977
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- McCarthy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Cape Town
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- 2006 Africa Cup of Nations
- Sport
- association football
Article
* 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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1977 births1998 African Cup of Nations players1998 FIFA World Cup players2002 African Cup of Nations players2002 FIFA World Cup players2006 Africa Cup of Nations players21st-century South African sportsmenAFC Ajax playersAssociation football coachesBlackburn Rovers F.C. playersBLP articles lacking sources from December 2020Cape Coloureds