First-team coach at Manchester United and former player Benedict Saul McCarthy is from South Africa. He formerly served as AmaZulu’s head coach in the South African Premier Division. McCarthy, a former forward, now holds the record for most goals scored by the South Africa national team, with 31.
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McCarthy was raised in Hanover Park, a neighborhood in the Cape Flats known for its high unemployment rate and gang violence, where he was born and raised in Cape Town. He has two brothers and a sister, and he is the son of Dudley and Dora McCarthy.
His younger brother Mark played football at Franklin Pierce University in the US, while his older brother Jerome McCarthy was a former professional player who played for clubs including Kaizer Chiefs and Manning Rangers.
McCarthy was not able to become a go-to player for Celta boss Victor Fernández, despite being one of the top African players at the time. He was loaned to struggling Porto in the 2001–2002 season after two subpar seasons with the Galician side, where he quickly recovered the form that propelled him to Europe.
McCarthy played for a struggling Porto squad that had never quite been good enough to compete for the top European honors since winning the European Cup in 1987 while playing under the team’s then-newly hired coach José Mourinho. But that would soon alter.
McCarthy returned to Porto after competing for Bafana Bafana at the 2002 African Nations Cup, where his team was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Benni Mccarthy Net Worth: How Much Does He Worth?
As of February 2023, Benni McCarthy had an estimated net worth of $16 million. He has made such an amount from his career as a football coach and former player.